Government of Turkey Ahmet Fehmi IşıklarVedat Aydın †Murat BozlakAhmet TürkAysel TuğlukLeyla ZanaPervin BuldanEmine AynaSebahat TuncelSelim SadakSelahattin Demirtaş (POW)Gülten KışanakNurettin DemirtaşOsman BaydemirSırrı Süreyya Önder The word serhildan describes several Kurdish protests and uprisings since the 1990s that used the slogan "Êdî Bese" ("Enough") against Turkey.

[15] The Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has thus far refused to acknowledge the demands of the protests, calling them a conspiracy[16] by an alleged Ergenekon–PKK axis.

During the following days the riots expanded to nearby Mardin and to the neighbouring provinces of Batman, Diyarbakır, Siirt, Şanlıurfa and Şırnak.

Later they also took in other Eastern Anatolian provinces such as Bingöl, Bitlis, Hakkâri, Muş and Van, as well as cities such as Ankara, Istanbul, İzmir and Mersin.

Following the closure of the Kurdish party DTP on 11 December 2009 the situation worsened and cost three people their lives.