Police officer threatens to kill HDP deputy as six party members detained

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A group of people wanted to leave a wreath that read "We want our children from the HDP" in front of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Headquarters in the capital city of Ankara.

After the party members did not allow the wreath to be left there, the police intervened.

A video shared on Twitter by HDP Parliamentary Group Deputy Chair Meral Danış-Beştaş shows a police officer with plain clothes telling HDP Deputy Ayşe Acar-Başaran, "Shut up or I'm gonna nail you down."

"Who is this person and who assigned him and sent him to our headquarters?" Danış-Beştaş wrote.

Milletvekilimize “kes sesini, çivilerim seni valla…” diyen zat kimdir?

Bu zatı görevlendiren ve genel merkezimizin önüne gönderen kimdir? pic.twitter.com/NYaNIh3jhS

— Meral Danış Beştaş (@meraldanis) May 5, 2022

Speaking to the Mezopotamya Agency (MA) about the incident, Acar-Başaran said, "Our party is constantly targeted and the minister of interior is at the center of the provocation."

The people who wanted to leave a wreath in front of the HDP building are members of a group known as the "Diyarbakır families," who hold the HDP responsible for their children joining the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK).

They read out a statement and wanted to leave a black wreath in front of the party building.

What they did was "a provocation attempt by the government to present our party's activities," said Ebru Günay, the spokesperson for the HDP.

"The police who didn't protect Deniz Poyraz on the day she was slaughtered protected three provocateurs and attacked our party today. They battered our employees and injured our friends," said Günay.

Police detained six HDP members after tensions rose once again when police officers intervened in the party members chanting, "HDP is the people, the people are here."

(RT/VK)