The 8 soldiers, who had been taken hostage by the HPG forces on October 21 in a clash in the region of Oremar, Hakkari, and who had been released a few days before, were decided to be imprisoned under the claim of "treason" by the Military Court of Van on November 11 after having been questioned for days. "Disobedience of command", "Violating the passport law by crossing the border and entering another country without permission", "strong suspicion of committing a crime" and "strongly violating the military discipline" were named as reasons for the detention. The soldiers said in their statements that they had not disobeyed any command, that they had clashed until they had no munition any more", did not leave their posts and completely fulfilled their duties and that they had to follow the order to surrender to the guerrillas who surrounded them when they got no help.