The Democracy Vigil launched in Mardin against the seizure of HDP-run municipalities continued on day 25.

The HDP group which has staged its protest at the Karayolları Park in the city center so far, was prevented from going to the same area due to the one-month ban imposed by the Governor of Mardin on any activity and demonstration.

The group therewith staged a sit-in action in front of HDP provincial headquarters before making a statement to the press.

HDP Mardin MP Ebru Günay recalled the 39th anniversary of the September 12 military coup, saying; “Coups continue today with the trustees”.

Highlighting the ongoing struggle of the Kurdish people, Günay said;

“Mardin co-mayors Ahmet Türk and Figen Altındağ, who received 56 percent of the vote, have been removed from post through the trustee coup. Our councilors are still not allowed to enter the municipality although they have not been dismissed. On the other hand, 187 employees have been suspended by the trustee who talks about laws and justice all the time. The trustee even intervenes with the trade union membership of the employees, just like they intervened with the right to elect be elected. In the same way they rule is with one-man regime and decide about everything in the country, they are now making all the decisions on local level through appointed trustees. The very same trustee has imposed a ban on demonstrations to prevent our protest against his person.”

Günay stressed that they will continue their protest until the trustee occupation is ended, adding that the trustees and those involved in injustice will stand trial one day like what happened to coup plotters themselves.

Speaking after, HDP Siirt MP Meral Danış Beştaş recalled the State officials’ hypocrite claims that they would confront those who staged the September 12 coup, and continued; “He himself is doing today what those involved in the September 12 coup couldn’t do. He asked for people’s votes in a referendum, promising to bring Kenan Evren to trial, but Evren did not appear before court one single time, nor was he convicted or sentenced. He just lived in comfort and died in his bed.”