The 8 soldiers that had been taken hostage by the HPG guerrillas in a clash on October 21 in the region Oremar, Hakkari, were released.
On November 3, vice-president of the DTP fraction Fatma Kurtalan, Diyarbakir MP Aysel Tugluk and Siirt MP Osman Ozcelik went to South Kurdistan, the Federal Region of Kurdistan to put effort in the release of the soldiers taken hostage. On the morning of November 4 the HPG released the soldiers and handed them over to the delegation which consisted of the Interior Minister of the Federal Region of Kurdistan Mahmut Osman, Tolerancy International President Kerim Sincari and the DTP deputies.
The question of the soldiers taken hostage continues to be a crisis for the Turkish colonial fascism's front. The fascist dictatorship first hided the fact that the soldiers had been taken hostage, but when the photos and names of the soldiers were published by the HPG the dictatorship did not show any effort to free the soldiers.
In a statement the chief of general staff made there was nothing said about the 8 soldiers taken hostage by the HPG, but it was declared that the 8 soldiers with whom the contact had been interrupted have rejoined the Turkish Armed Forces. Vice Prime Minister Cemil Cicek said that the DTP deputies who went to get the soldiers released are "totally with the PKK ". Minister of Justice Mehmet Ali Sahin said: "Not a single member of the Turkish Armed Forces should have been in such a situation. I can not believe that they had gone with the terrorists at that night. I am not really happy that they have been free."
Aynur Atakul, the mother of the soldier Fatih Atakul who had been taken hostage asnwered this statement as follows: "It is easy for the minister to talk. If my child was dead, would mister minister be happy?"
The general staff's military prosecutor opened an investigation against the 8 soldiers under the claim of "treason of the national defense" and "leaving the arms due to inattention during the shift which caused a great damage" based on the Military Penal Code.
The Public Prosecution of the Republic in Ankara opened a trial against the 3 deputies of the DTP.