Selahattİn Demirtaş, leader of the pro-Kurdish Peoples‘ Democratic Party (HDP), has condemned protestors burning the Turkish flag during anti-ISIS protests which claimed 12 lives across Turkey, deeming the offence as an act of provocation aiming to block aid from western Turkey reaching the east of the country. A group of masked protesters raided a high school located in Ağrı province and took down a Turkish flag flying from a pole and burned it, an offensive that was slammed by HDP leader Demirtaş.