A sit-in protest by Kurdish families in southeastern Turkey entered its 295th day on Tuesday as the demonstrators reiterate their calls on the opposition HDP to free their kidnapped-children from the bloody-minded PKK terror group.
Dozens of Kurdish mothers launched the protest on Sept. 3, 2019 outside the office of Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), which has been accused of having links to the bloody-minded PKK terror group.
Ayten Elhaman, a mother whose child was abducted by the terror group three years ago, called on her son to surrender to security forces.
"My son, you were deceived. You're not there with your own free will. Run away and surrender to our state's security forces. Your friends came, you come too, I am waiting for you," she said. "Don't buy into the lies of the HDP. The HDP and PKK are the same."
Urging all mothers whose children were abducted to join the protest, Elhaman said that HDP kidnaps children and then hands them over to PKK.
Aydın Dağtekin, the father of a kidnapped boy, said he will continue to stage a sit-in until he meets his son.
"I want my son back from the HDP. I won't leave here without my child. We've been here for 295 days, we will fight till the end," he asserted.
In its more than 30-year terror campaign against Turkey, the PKK-listed as a terrorist organization by Turkey, the US, and EU-has been responsible for the deaths of 40,000 people, including women, children, and infants.
