 The police statement said that the concert was forbidden, and that the venue where the concert would be held would be closed by the police.In May 2019 several members of the Grup Yorum began a hunger strike in protest to the treatment the band received from the Turkish Government.Their demands included that the Turkish Government ends forbidding its concerts for three and release band members from prison Ibrahim Gökçek and Helin Bölek joined the hunger strike in June 2019.