Prisoner İsmet Karak described the practices in Sincan High Security Prison No. 2 and said: “We are being forced to say, 'Either compromise your political identity and honor, or lose your basic human rights!”
IHD Honorary President Akın Birdal pointed out that Abdullah Öcalan is the first interlocutor in the solution of the Kurdish issue and called on the government for “sincerity and a road map”.
The curfew in the rural neighborhoods of Elfan and Barman in Stewrê district of Mêrdîn has been ended, 4 people are being held at the gendarmerie command.
Prisoners in prisons in Adana stated that they have not been able to access their right to health for years due to mouth searches and handcuffed examinations.
Stating that the developments in the Middle East are forcing every country to change, Assoc. Prof. Hakan Güneş said: “What the Kurds will do is important. Kurds are trying to expand their collective rights in a multi-actor and complex equation.”
Pointing out that the massacres of women and violence are caused by the policies of the government, the women of Eğitim-Sen said: “A struggle must be waged by uniting on a common ground.”
An investigation was launched against Şahin Sarı, the President of Adana Ağrılılar Association, on the grounds that he shared a bikini photo with a Turkish flag, with the allegation of “Publicly Contempt for the State's Signs of Sovereignty”.
Following the curfew imposed in rural neighborhoods of Stewrê district, house raids were conducted. It is learned that 3 people have been detained so far.
Citizens in the region are worried about water leaking through cracks in the dams in Qileban.
2 people were arrested in Mêrdîn on the allegation of “financing an illegal organization” on the grounds of “gift” fee transfers they made on the internet game PUBG.
Sıddık Güler, an 84-year-old seriously ill prisoner who is wheelchair-bound, was transferred to İskenderun Type T Prison with a note saying “Caution! He may escape”
Suat Aslan was arrested for systematically sexually abusing a 9-year-old boy in Elbak district. The mother of the child, H.G., stated that they were threatened to withdraw their statements.
All defendants in the attack case against the Şenyaşar family were released.
According to the Institute for Social Studies' “Social Dispositions” field survey, Diractorate of Religious Affairs and political parties are the “two most untrustworthy institutions in Turkey”.
PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan's family and guardian applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and İmralı Prison Directorate demanding a meeting.