At least 10 people sustained injuries in the southeastern province of Diyarbakir today after a police crackdown on a protest organized by the Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) to denounce the death of two demonstrators in the eastern province of Hakkari two days earlier.
The march began under extreme tension at the BDP’s Diyarbakir headquarters as police initially refused to give permission to the march on the grounds that some of the banners were illegal and that some people were wearing scarfs obscuring their face.
The group marched up to Turgut Özal Boulevard after the protesters in question left the group. Gültan Kisanak, the BDP’s co-chair and a candidate for Diyarbakir mayor in upcoming local elections, made a press statement, describing the reported desecration of graves belonging to members of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in Yüksekova as “provocative.”
On Dec. 6, allegations that the graves had been vandalized triggered a spontaneous protest in Yüksekova’s town center, during which two men, Veysel Isbilir, 34, and his nephew, Mehmet Resit Isbilir, 32, sustained severe injuries, allegedly caused by police bullets, before succumbing to their injuries hospital.
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