The Diyarbakýr Chief Public Prosecutor has opened an investigation into the Democratic Society Congress (DTK) declaration of Democratic Autonomy. The prosecutor considered the news as evidence sufficient to open an investigation and asked the police department to give the recordings of the meeting which took place in Diyarbakýr on Thursday.

DTK Co-Chair and Van Deputy Aysel Tuðluk announced on Thursday that the Democratic Autonomy proclamation had been unanimously decided by the 850 delegates. “Every community has a natural life system. - said Tuðluk - With the Democratic Autonomy, we are not establishing a new state nor are we destroying a state. Indeed, this is not a state system. This is a system in which people can participate in their own government without establishing a new state".

Tuðluk added that "All sections of the society, particularly women and young people, create their own organizations and take part in politics based on free and equal citizenship in this system as well as their power and capability. With the Democratic Autonomy, - the Van deputy concluded - we are not changing borders, and symbols we are trying to make common values recognized and we try to live with these common values based on a new social contract".