Families in southeastern Turkey whose children have been abducted or forcibly recruited by PKK terrorists continued to protest against the group on Friday, with two demonstrators joined by their disabled children.
Since September 2019, the families have been camping in the Diyarbakir province for 816 days outside the offices of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), which the Turkish government says has links with the PKK.
The demonstrations have since spread to other provinces including Van, Mus, Sirnak, and Hakkari.
Pinar Bicer and Ayten Elhamam, two mothers in the Diyarbakir sit-in, said they have been coming to the protest site every morning with their disabled children by their side.
Bicer told Anadolu Agency that she was taking part in the anti-terror sit-in for her daughter, Gulcan, who was kidnapped by the PKK six years ago when she was 18.
She said the HDP handed her daughter over to the terrorist group.
Despite falling ill after her daughter’s abduction, Bicer said she never…