Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Central Executive Board has released a statement calling for an end to the detention operations against elected local administrators.

The statement by HDP reported that co-mayors of Sur municipality Seyid Narin and Fatma Şık Barut, co-mayors of Silvan municipality Yüksel Bodakçı and Melikşah Teke, as well as DBP Sur district co-chair Ali Rıza Çiçek and many other DBP members have been taken into custody in a concurrent house-raid operation in Sur and Silvan districts of Amed today.

Calling attention to the oppression of civilians in Lice, Silvan, Varto, Silopi and Şemdinli going on for days now, HDP said the detention and arrest operation against the elected local administrators, which came after the devastation of houses and workplaces in Kurdish districts and villages, was unacceptable. The party called for the immediate release of the elected politicians.

HDP stressed that these elected local administrators have recently been targeted by the pro-AKP media agencies that spread black propaganda on the basis of false charges and baseless reports.

CALL FOR DIALOGUE AND NEGOTIATION

Pointing out that all the happenings were a consequence of the defeat AKP faced in June 7 elections, HDP condemned the detention of local administrators which -it underlined- manifested the insincerity of those claiming to be embracing the will of the people.

Urging an end to the detentions, arrests, physical attacks and the ongoing conflict, HDP put emphasis on the need for peace, solution, peace and stability in Turkey, and noted that this process would otherwise deepen the existing problems and drag them into a deadlock.

Pointing to dialogue and negotiation as the single way to come up with a solution to the existing problems, HDP added that the deadlock in democratic politics has brought no solution to any of the problems in recent history, and on the contrary made them greater.