HDP deputies intervene police officers in schools in Van

People have rushed to the ballots early in the morning in Van for the constitutional amendment refernedum vote.

619.947 voters in 1924 ballots will be voting in Van. The attendance is expected to be very high. Tensions are high in several points throughout the city and the public interest is high.

HDP province co-chairs Yakup Ataş and Gülistan Orhan and MPs Bedia Özgökçe and Lezgin Botan visited the schools. The HDP delegation intervened in several schools where the police officers held watch by the ballot boxes and removed the police from the vicinity.

The police were seen letting people into the schools after searching them in Hacıbekir neighborhood. In Vali Tahir Paşa Elementary School in Şehit Fırat neighborhood, one person was detained after an incident between the police and the youth.