While April 23 is being celebrated in Turkey as the Childrens' Day, the police attacked children in Hakkari of whom one died and one has been heavily injured. As in many cities of Kurdistan, the state terror against the DTP has been protested in Hakkari for several days, too. The police attacking the protest actions on April 23 punched a 14-year-old child that was then heavily injured. Another child called Abdulsemat Erip died when he wanted to flee from the gas bombs thrown by the police and fell into a brook. In total, the police injured 8 people recently, 4 of them heavily, attacking the actions with gas bombs and pressurised water. In Mersin special units shot a young Kurdish man under the pretext that he is a PKK activist. It was said that he was questioned by the police before he could get medical treatment. {divide}
The police terror has been protested by different groups of society. The ESP published a written statement protesting the police terror and demanding the conviction of the murderer policemen. In the statement the ESP also stressed that the state is celebrating April 23 as the Day of National Hegemony and Childrens' Day using children on this day on the one hand, and continues to kill the children in Kurdistan on the other hand where the mentality considering children as terrorists has killed dozens of children and now Abdulselam Enis.
The Initiative for Justice for Children founded by intellectuals and artists made an action on April 24 at Taxim Square, Istanbul protesting the police terror on children at Hakkari. The artist Murat Morovo said in a speech the following: "We have witnessed how a child was brutally beaten in front of the eyes of the whole world ". Morova drew attention to the Kurdish children beaten and arrested and demanded the conviction of the responsible forces.
DTP general chairmen Ahmet Turk and Emine Ayna as well as DTP mayors and other DTP members made a statement at the general centre of the party in Ankara. Ahmet Turk representing the DTP addressed to the AKP government that increased its attacks on the Kurdish people saying: "If you plan to scare our people, we hereby declare to the whole publicity that we will shake your rulership with a democratic resistance of which there is none in history!" Turk said that the attacks show that the AKP doesn't want a democratic solution on the Kurdish question and is insisting on its policy of denial and annihilation. He said that this stance of the AKP would show that it is not in favour of peace but war, pain and tears.