JINHA

AMED - Youth self-defense volunteers began filling in trenches in the areas of the city of Diyarbakır as police ended their siege on the neighborhood.

Since Friday, clashes have been ongoing daily in the Sur district of the city of Diyarbakır, in Northern Kurdistan (Turkey). Youth dug and defended trenches in the streets to prevent police from entering the neighborhood of Lalebey.

Yesterday, the youth self-defense volunteers of the YDG-H (Patriotic Revolutionary Youth Movement) and YDGK-H (Patriotic Revolutionary Young Women's Movement) began filling in their trenches as police pulled out of their neighborhood. While locals said they still feared a possible attack, youth announced they were prepared to re-open the trenches in the case of any danger.

A delegation of activists from the Democratic Regions Party (DBP) and Democratic Society Congress (DTK) has traveled to the neighborhood to analyze what has occurred.

(be-ny/fk/cm)