ANKARA - The 3rd hearing of the Kobanê Political Genocide Trial started with the 6th session. The hearing, in which 17 politicians are present in the courtroom, continues with defenses.

 

The Kobanê Political Genocide Trial, in which 108 people, 24 of whom were imprisoned, including the former Co-Chairs of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Figen Yüksekdağ and Selahattin Demirtaş and the former Co-Chair of the Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Sebahat Tuncel, are on trial. The 6th session of the 3rd hearing started at the Ankara 22nd High-Criminal Court.

 

HDP MPs, HDP provincial and district organization representatives, as well as many lawyers and journalists attended the hearing held in the Sincan Prison Campus Hall. While the relatives up to the third degree of the politicians on trial from the viewers were taken to the hall where the hearing was held, many viewers were taken to a different hall.

 

Co-Chairs at SEGBİS

 

HDP former Co-Chairs Figen Yüksekdağ and Selahattin Demirtaş, former Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality Co-Mayor Gültan Kışanak, who was replaced by a trustee, Zeynep Ölbeci, a former HDP Central Executive Board (MYK) member, and Emine Ayna, former Co-Chair of the Democratic Regions Party (DBP) in detention from prisons, HDP former MYK members Berfin Özgü Köse, Can Memiş and Cihan Erdal, who were released in the previous sessions, were also connected to the hearing from Istanbul via Sound and Video Information System (SEGBİS).

 

While detained, HDP former MP Gülser Yıldırım, Aysel Tuğluk, and İmralı Delegation member Sırrı Süreyya Önder, Ahmet Türk, Gülfer Akkaya and Altan Tan, who were on trial without arrest, did not attend the hearing by making excuses, Kars Municipality Co-Mayor Ayhan Bilgen was excluded from the hearing due to health problems. 

 

17 politicians in the courtroom

 

Democratic Regions Party (DBP) former Co-Chair Sebahat Tuncel, Rosa Women's Association Founder and Free Women’s Movement (TJA) activist Ayla Akat Ata, HDP former spokesperson Günay Kubilay, HDP Radio and Television Supreme Council (RTÜK) member Ali Ürküt, HDP Former MPs Emine Beyza Üstün, İbrahim Binici, HDP Foreign Relations Commission member Nazmi Gür, HDP new term MYK member Alp Altınörs, Meryem Adıbelli, HDP former compter Zeki Çelik, Kurdish Pen member writer Nezir Çakan, HDP former MYK members Pervin Oduncu , Ayşe Yağcı, Bircan Yorulmaz, Bülent Parmaksız, İsmail Şengül, Dilek Yağcı and Sibel Akdeniz were present in the courtroom.

 

The trial, which started with identification, continued with the defense of Kurdish Pen member writer Nezir Çakan.