Van Governor's Office: Demonstrations and events banned across the city for 15 days!

Following the three-year and nine-month prison sentence handed down to Van Metropolitan Municipality Co-Mayor Abdullah Zeydan on charges of 'attempting to knowingly and willingly assist an organization,' the Governor's Office has banned protests and demonstrations in the city for 15 days.

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Van Governor's Office: Demonstrations and events banned across the city for 15 days!

Van Metropolitan Municipality Co-Mayor Abdullah Zeydan has been sentenced to 3 years and 9 months in prison for 'attempting to knowingly and willingly assist an organization.' A statement from the Van Governor's Office announced that all demonstrations and events have been banned across the city for 15 days.

The statement included the following remarks:

''In order to prevent actions and attacks that are assessed to directly and clearly constitute the conditions for limitation and prohibition stipulated in our Constitution and laws, to ensure the life and property security of our citizens, to thwart the plans of terrorist organizations, and in this context, to ensure national security, protect public order and general health, prevent the commission of crimes, ensure the continuation of fundamental rights and freedoms as well as the rights and freedoms of others and general public safety, and prevent the spread of violence; within the geographical boundaries of Van province, effective from 11.02.2025 up to and including 25.02.2025, for a period of (15) days, except for those deemed appropriate by the Governor's Office and District Governorships, activities such as protest marches, open-air meetings and indoor meetings, press statements, sit-ins and surveys, setting up/opening tents and stands, organizing signature campaigns, distributing leaflets, brochures and flyers, and all kinds of protest activities to be organized in accordance with the provisions of the Law on Meetings and Demonstration Marches No. 2911 have been prohibited in accordance with the relevant articles of the Law on Meetings and Demonstration Marches No. 2911 and the Provincial Administration Law No. 5442. Between the specified dates, in order to prevent participation in any illegal action/event, either individually or collectively, from our districts or surrounding provinces, or by using our province's routes, a decision has been made not to allow the entry and exit of individuals/groups likely to participate in illegal actions/events to and from our province and districts, and not to allow the use of our province's routes by those coming from other provinces to pass to the specified locations, in accordance with the provisions of Article 11, paragraph (c) of the Provincial Administration Law No. 5442.''

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