Protests against the usurpation of the municipality in the Halfeti district of Urfa continue on the second day. In the early hours of the morning, people started to gather in front of the blockaded municipality building and danced to Kurdish music. During the resistance led by the members of Urfa Peace Mothers Assembly, slogans of ‘Bijî berxwedana Xelfetî’ (Long Live the Resistance of Halfeti) are frequently chanted.

Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) MPs Ömer Öcalan, Zülküf Uçar, Ayten Kordu, Ferit Şenyaşar, Mithat Sancar, Dilan Kunt Ayan, Halfeti Co-Mayors Saniye Bayram and Mehmet Karayılan, Hilvan Co-Mayor Serhan Paydaş, Birecik Co-Mayor Berivan İlkaya Manas and many others participated in the resistance in front of the municipality building which remains blockaded by hundreds of police.

DEM Party Urfa MP Mithat Sancar said, “The methods used in the trustee system mean a clear violation of the law. It means trampling the law underfoot.”

Sancar said, “We continue our struggle for the construction of a Democratic Republic. There cannot be a Democratic Republic without local democracy. When the trustee regime started in the Kurdish cities, we said at the beginning that it would spread to the whole country.”

Underlining that the DEM Party wants a democratic solution for everyone, Sancar said, “The Kurdish people did not and will not surrender to the trustees. Efforts to subjugate them are futile. Kurdish people insist on democratic politics. Let's oppose this practice against democracy all together. Let's pave the way for a democratic republic together. Let's increase the common struggle. The trustee regime will never reach its goal. There is a strong will and belief here.”

The wait in front of the blockaded municipality building continues with Kurdish songs.