Mothers of Diyarbakır

[8][9] Soon after, a news agency close to Kurdish nationalists interviewed the 21-year-old boy, who claimed that he had not joined the PKK but had run away from home because of a family matter.

[11] Zeyyat Ceylan, HDP's Diyarbakir co-chair, claimed the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP) was trying to avenge its June 2019 Istanbul mayoral election defeat by using the families.

[13] Attributed to the winter circumstances, the grouped stopped sitting on the stairs in front of the party building and moved to a tent to shelter from the cold weather.

[18] On 7 November 2019, Vice-Chair Tomas Zdechovsky of the European Parliament Social Affairs Committee met with the mothers in Diyarbakır.

[19] Ambassadors from nine countries also visited the mothers, including Indian envoy Sanjay Bhattacharya, Ukraine's Andrii Sybiha and the U.K.'s Dominick Chilcott.

[22] Turkey's Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu also visited the protest, but was criticized by main opposition Republican People's Party (CHP) Chair Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu by saying "Why do you go and sit there?