On June 27, Mehmet Sayın, the Provincial Chairman of the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) in Diyarbakır, was among the people who visited Ekin Ceren Park where HDP stage a Conscience and Justice Watch until the anniversary of its lawmakers’ arrests. Sayın said they would continue to support HDP’s legal protests to defend democracy.
HDP deputies also held a mass Friday prayer with the supporters of the party. The police let the people enter the park after negotiations with HDP representatives.
HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş, former co-chair and lawmaker Figen Yüksekdağ and nine deputies from the party were arrested over their alleged links to armed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKk). The first arrests were carried out on Nov. 4, 2016, and continued in the following months.
