The HDP activists and MP's, including co-chairs Pervin Buldan ve Sezai Temelli faced with police terror in Taksim/İstanbul, as they attempt to march to support DTK co-chair and HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven, who has been on hunger strike for 96 days demanding the end of isolation against Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan. {divide}

Despite the threatening of the Turkish Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu, saying "I am no man if I let you march", the MP's gathered in Taksim Hill Hotel to march through the İstiklal Avenue, Istanbul's main pedestrian thoroughfare. The police did not allow the MPs to walk, saying that "If I let you walk, it would be unfair for the ones who previously wanted to walk and I will have to permit everybody who wants to walk from now on."

After that, the MPs tried to walk towards Gümüşsuyu, another part of the Taksim square. When the group headed to the Taksim Monument, the police formed a barricade there. Because the police did not remove the barricade, Co-Chairs Buldan and Temelli made a press statement in front of the Taksim Hill Hotel.

 Pointing at the police barricade, Temelli said, "If you want to see the photograph of the isolation, look at Taksim. If you want to see the photograph of isolation, we present you this photograph. Turkey is under isolation. (...)We are calling out to everyone in Turkey: Take side with democracy and law. Defend the independence and impartiality of the judiciary. If we can defend these all together, this will open the way for Turkey."
Buldan also pointed out that the isolation is continuing in Taksim and criticized the Minister of Interior Süleyman Soylu, saying that they are in Taksim "not for manhood, but for humanity."

After they were not allowed to march following the press statement, the HDP MPs did a sit-in protest for a while. Following the sit-in protest, the MPs decided to go to Galatasaray Square one by one, because the police did not permit them to walk together. When the MPs tried to go one by one, they were told that they cannot walk wearing the vests that have Leyla Güven's picture and a sign saying, "Isolation shall be lifted, Leyla shall live"