Serkan Ramanlı is a Turkish-Kurdish lawyer and the spokesman of the Free Cause Party from Batman.
[3] Ramanlı became a member of the general administration board of the Free Cause Party and later the deputy chairman in charge of public relations and promotion.
[4] Ramanlı announced his intention to open the "Bediüzzeman Institute", an Islamic school with multiple campuses, which teaches entirely in the Kurdish language, as well as to employ Kurds as teachers, saying "within the framework of the Bediüzzaman Institute, we will bring together the leading personalities raised in Kurdish history, from our first companion Jaban al-Kurdi, to Saladin, from there to Sheikh Ubeydullah, Mahmud Barzanji, and from Sheikh Said to Mustafa Barzani, with our youth and people.
Öztütün was expelled from the DEM Party after the pictures surfaced, and Ramanlı reacted by saying "I want Ms. Tülay to put an end to this.
Ramanlı criticised Turkish authorities for the decision and claimed that Zeydan was the legitimate mayor of Van.