On February 13, the colonialist fascist Turkish bourgeois state launched a series of police operations in 16 cities and arrested approximately 140 people until now. Ankara, Adana, Batman, Mardin, Van, Erzurum, Hakkari, Mus, Diyarbakir, Istanbul, Mersin, Sirnak, Izmir, Urfa, Antep and Hatay are the cities where operations have been carried out. {divide}
In Ankara, the central building of the KESK , the central offices of SES and Tüm Bel-Sen have also been raided by the police.
KESK Executive Board Member and Women's Secretary Canan Caglayan, KESK former Women's Secretary Songul Morsumbul, correspondent of DIHA News Agency Ismet Mikailogullari, photography artist and poet Mehmet Ozer, provincial and local leaders and members of BDP are among the arrested.
Many trade unions including KESK and DISK , revolutionary and progressive political parties and organisations and democratic mass organisations have announced that they will protest the police operations through actions.