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Diyarbakır mothers' sit-in protests and child soldiers of the PKK

The sit-in protests began when Hacire Akar staged a protest outside of the Peoples' Democratic Party's (HDP) Diyarbakir office on September 3, 2019.

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Hamza Adıyaman was only nine years old when he was kidnapped by the PKK. No one would believe that a nine year-old boy joined a terrorist organization willingly. Hamza lived in the village of Kırıkdağ in Hakkari and was kidnapped in front of his school. When his family realized that their child was missing, they went to the school for searching him and saw a black car that they believe their son with tied hands was in. Later, the PKK and HDP told the family that Hamza "died by falling into the Zap river" however Hamza's parents believed this was a lie.