On February 15, the day when in 1999 PKK leader Abdullah Ocalan was extradited to Turkey following an international conspiracy to take him as captive, the Kurdish people went on the streets in different cities of Northern Kurdistan and Turkey, first of all in Amed, by wearing black clothes and clothing their shops throughout the day to protest the oppression against the Kurdish nation and Ocalan. {divide}The people going on the street in Amed, Sirnak, Van, Muş, Adana, Siirt, Hakkari, Batman, Mardin, Urfa, Istanbul and Izmir shouted the slogans "Murderer Erdogan", "Long live president Ocalan" and "Down with the conspiracy of February 15". The MPs of the DTP also participated at the demonstrations. In Amed and other cities hunger strikes took place, too. In Batman, Amed, Adana and Mardin, the police brutally attacked the mass and arrested some of the demonstrators. 19 of those who were arrested in Adana and Mardin, 8 out of them children, has been taken to prison with the accusation that "they had made an action in the name of an illegal organisation" and that "they has made the propaganda of an illegal organisation". The DTP protested the attacks with press meetings on February 17 and with demonstrations in Amed and Batman on February 18.