7 activists of the Socialist Platform of the Oppressed ( ESP ), who made a protest action in front of the Ministry of Internal Affairs with the demands that the military operations of the Turkish state in Northern Kurdistan should end and the state should announce seize-fire, has been sent to prison. The voice that rose from the West for fraternity, responding the demand of the Kurdish people for freedom, has once more been the target of the imprisonment attack of the state.
On 7 December, the ESP activists made a street action in front of the Ministry of Internal Affairs, opening the banner "End to the operations, freedom to the Kurdish people!". They stated that the state should put an end to its dirty war and its military operations in Kurdistan, for the seize-fire announced by PKK last month to have a meaning. They demanded the recognition of the Kurdish identity, the approval of the Kurdish language as one of the official languages and the abolition of the legal measurements which hinders the Kurdish language to be used in the press.
The ESP activists who shouted the slogans "No to the unjust and dirty war!" and "Equality, fraternity, and freedom to the Kurdish nation!" were stopped by the police while they were turning to the office after the action and were taken under custody with the claim that they had "praised the crime". The Court where they were taken to on 9 December sent all of them to prison. The names of the imprisoned activists are: Sibel Can, Gokce Otlu, Filiz Ulucelebi, Mehtap Adiguzel, Cenan Altuc, Meral Taskiran, Dogan Aras.