The protests against the appointment of trustees to metropolitan in the Kurdish metropolitan cities of Amed (Diyarbakır), Mardin and Van have continued for 31 days.

In Van, a sit-in action has been taking place in front of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) building since 19 August, the date when the elected mayor was dismissed by the Turkish Ministry of the Interior.

The participants unfurled banners with the inscriptions: "Not the rule of trustee, but the will of the people," "Women, life, freedom" and "Co-presidency is our purple line" against the criminalization of the system of dual leadership, in which all levels are occupied by women and men equally.

Today’s action was attended by HDP MPs Murat Sarısaç and Kemal Bülbül, HDP provincial association chairman Ümit Dede and other HDP district co-chairs, city councilors, Peace Mothers and the Free Women's Movement (TJA) members.

HDP MP Murat Sarısaç said that their protest ongoing for a month now will continue, saying; "Whatever comes, our fight continues."

Sarısaç pointed out how the overthrown dictators have ended up in various parts of the world, saying that the victory will be of the peoples resisting the dictators.

HDP MP cited the ongoing imprisonment of 7 thousand children in Turkish jails as a manifestation of AKP’s insincerity.

“If AKP was sincere, it would not have come to terms with the perpetrators of Soma massacre and let them get acquitted, it would not have massacred 34 people, mostly children, in Roboski. There are more than 250 children jailed alongside their mothers in Turkey today. The number of imprisoned minors is as high as seven thousand. If they are truly worried about mothers, these children would not be in prisons.”

Highlighting the police attacks against the people protesting in front of AKP headquarters, Sarısaç pointed to the HDP as the point of solution that has a project for peace, freedom and democracy.

Remarking that AKP exploited motherliness, Sarısaç added; “The solution is the HDP which promises to dry mothers’ tears and to present a free Turkey to their children. We invite all mothers who have been kicked by AKP’s undersecretaries, and everyone who believes in peace and democracy to the HDP. We advocate the truth. We draw our strength from the truth.”