DEM Party Co-Chair Tülay Hatimoğulları makes statement regarding the October 6-8 events verdict: 'It is null and void for us'
DEM Party Co-Chair Tülay Hatimoğulları issued a press statement regarding the verdict in the Kobani trial, where former Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) co-chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ were sentenced to 28 years and 6 months and 30 years and 3 months in prison, respectively, in connection with the October 6-8 events.
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The 83rd hearing of the Kobani trial, which includes former HDP co-chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ, was held today at the Sincan Prison Penitentiary Institutions Campus by the Ankara 22nd High Criminal Court. DEM Party Co-Chair Tülay Hatimoğulları made statements regarding the verdict.
'Today we witnessed a legal massacre'
Stating that they do not recognize the verdict, Hatimoğulları said: "Today we witnessed a legal massacre; our friends have been sentenced to hundreds of years. This is a crossroads. Just as this verdict and the indictment were written by the MHP, this decision was also made there. Today, another legal coup, a political coup, has taken place.
'This verdict is null and void for us'
Those who made these decisions will be condemned just as those who signed the death warrants of the Deniz Gezmiş generation were condemned, and they will take their place in the dustbin of history. With the decision it has taken today, the court has stood on the side of ISIS and fascism. has shown that it is. This verdict is null and void for us.