Although most of these families belong to low-income group and are exposed to many pressure, they do not step back. Guzide Demir's mother describes the pressure on them as follows: "They put pressure on my husband at work because I participated in the sit-in protest, they paid his salary 1,000 TL less. They told him whether to accept less salary or quit the job." The role of the HDP in the protests, on the other hand, is crucial so that the reactions of the families increased in the face of the party's weak reaction towards them during their watch. Moreover, the HDP's reaction against Diyarbakir mothers was blaming them as being traitors.
