Parents hope to reunite with their children abducted or forcibly recruited by terror group Mesut Varol and Yilmaz Kazandioglu | 17.04.2021 VAN, Turkey A total of 43 families in eastern Turkey are staging a sit-in against the PKK terror group which has abducted or forcibly recruited their children. The protest began on Sept. 3, 2019, when three mothers said their children had been forcibly recruited by PKK terrorists. The sit-in outside the offices of the opposition Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP), which the government accuses of having links to the PKK, has been growing since then in Diyarbakir province. Every week, 28 families in Van, 12 in Hakkari and three families in Mus provinces are trying to make their voices heard by sitting outside the HDP offices.