He was accused of being a drug dealer and PKK financier by the Turkish National Intelligence Organization (MIT).

In 1993, their life changed when Prime Minister Tansu Çiller made a speech declaring that the government had a list of businessmen supporting the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) whom they would hold accountable.

On 3 June 1994, Pervin's husband Savaş and his two friends, Adnan Yıldırım and Hacı Karay were abducted after leaving the Hotel Çınar in Yesilköy.

2 and 13 of the European Convention of Human Rights, that there were deficiencies in the investigations around the death of Savas Buldan[4] and ordered Turkey to pay her and her family 26'000€.

[7] Yakay-Der grew out of the experience of the Saturday Mothers, who used civil disobedience to gain publicity and bring attention to the ‘disappearances in custody’ cases.

[10] In April 2010 she headed a group of MPs who demanded an investigation into the Armenian nuclear power plant at Metsamor, near the Turkish border.

[16] In the parliamentary elections of 2023, she was re-elected to the Grand National Assembly, representing Van for the Green Left Party (YSP).

[17] She opposes the so-called one-man rule by the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan,[18] and is in favor of education in the Kurdish language.