Deputies of the HDP visited Çığlı (Aşût) village in Çukurca district of Hakkari at the border with the South Kurdistan in order for an examination at scene after incidents broke up during the protest by local people against military deployment of the Turkish military the night before.

HDP Hakkari MPs Selma Irmak, Nihat Akdoğan and Abdullah Zeydan, Çukurca co-mayor Servet Tunç and DBP and HDP executives of Hakkari branches were welcomed by hundreds of people as they gathered in the village and were informed by the villagers about the tensions that rose up the night before during the military deployment to the village. The villagers said the Turkish army's deployment is not to prevent the border trade as it has been alleged, but to construct new military posts at the borderline.

Speaking here, HDP deputy Selma Irmak stressed that the Turkish military wants to enter into guerrilla zones on the other side of the border despite the ongoing ceasefire. Irmak added that one other reason of the deployment is to construct new military posts at the border in order to take it under full control and thus to abolish the cross-border trade, the only means of the local people to earn money.

After their examination in the village, the deputies departed to have a meeting with the Çukurca governor Ünal Koç. Meeting the governor at his office, the deputies told the governor that cross-border trade has long been the only means of the people living in the border area to earn their lives because of the war policies pursued for long years and stressed that alternatives to this must be developed first.

The deputies also stressed that attacks of the soldiers on local people must also be ended.