Number of killed mentioned here in Turkish.
50 dead still await to be buried in Sur, Cizre and Silopi.
Three politician women who were killed as trying to get to Yeşilyurt neighborhood from Karşıyaka neighborhood in Silopi have been determined as DBP PM Seve Demir, KJA member Fatma Uyar, and Silopi People’s Assembly Co-Chair Pakize Nayır.
Ten mayors from the Democratic Regions Party (DBP), the sister party of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), have been suspended and detained, while 106 municipalities under the DBP have been subject to investigations on charges related to “autonomy,” “co-leadership” and “terror.”
Van Metropolitan Municipality Co-Mayor Bekir Kaya has been sentenced to 15 years of imprisonment within the trial he had been put on with charges of being a member of the terrorist organization. At the moment, 16 Municipality Co-Mayors sit in prison.
HDP Co-Chair Demirtaş has reacted against PM addressing Kurdish people as “local community”.
Amid rising calls for the parliamentary immunity of Kurdish problem-focused Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) MPs to be lifted, HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş has said his party is ready for the lifting of immunity of all members of parliament
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