HUMAN RIGHTS

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• Mehmet Öcalan: We must rise up against the isolation 

  Mehmet Öcalan asks that the isolation imposed upon his brother Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan be rejected and people take action, warning that “tomorrow may be too late”.
• Öcalan's lawyers send report to CPT 

  The European body has not visited Imrali since 2016.
• How many times can a person disappear? 

  Saturday Mothers in Istanbul asked what happened to student Tolga Ceylan who disappeared in 2004.
• AI: Turkey must stop serious violations in Afrin 

  Turkish forces are giving Syrian armed groups free rein to commit serious human rights abuses against civilians in the northern city of Afrin, Amnesty International said, following an in-depth investigation into life under the Turkish military occupation.
• Prisoners sold books at twice the prize 

  Violations exposed by lawyers after visiting Antalya L Type Closed Prison.
• Jalaliyan and 9 other political prisoners go on hunger strike 

  10 political prisoners including Kurdish political prisoner Zainab Jalaliyan are going on a hunger strike to protest the oppression in the prison.
• "'Dad, get us out of here" 

  Since February, Vesile Yüksel and her daughters Arin Mirkan (4) and Avesta (6) have been jailed in a Turkish prison for "terrorist propaganda" on social media.
• Saturday Mothers meet in Istanbul for the 696th week 

  The story of Süleyman Cihan was told in Istanbul.
• Political prisoners strip-searched and threatened with death 

  Political prisoner Vedat Kaya announced through his family that the prisoners are subjected to death threats by the prison guards.
• New statement against the isolation imposed on Öcalan 

  Asrın Law Office lawyers have been denied once again the right to visit their client.
• IHD publishes report on rights violations in the Kurdish region 

  The Human Rights Association has released its six months report for 2018.
• “Isolation of Öcalan must end for peace to be established” 

  IHD Amed Chapter Chairperson Abdullah Zeytun protested the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Öcalan and said, “The isolation must end for peace to be established and clashes to end.”
• Jailed HDP MP receives visitation ban due to Kurdish song 

  HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven, held hostage in prison, was issued a one-month visitation ban because of a Kurdish song sung in her ward.
• HDP’s Buldan: Isolation of Öcalan is the root of many problems 

  The HDP co-chair insisted that isolation imposed on Öcalan should be lifted.
• Saturday Mothers demand justice for journalist Ferhat Tepe 

  The young journalist disappeared in 1993.
• Relatives of disappeared people come together for justice in Amed 

  The Human Rights Association was prevented from staging their weekly sit-in by the State of Emergency law.
• ECHR hearing on Cizre has been scheduled for 13 November 

  European Court of Human Rights hosts hearing on Cizre curfew and atrocities.
• Over 13,000 rights violations registered in Van during OHAL 

  Over 13,000 people in Van have been affected by the State of Emergency in Van province during the past two years.
• HDP congratulates the Human Rights Association on its anniversary 

  The IHD was founded 32 years ago.
• HRW: Turkey stops registering Syrian asylum seekers 

  Turkish authorities in Istanbul and nine provinces on or near the Syrian border have stopped registering all but a handful of recently arrived Syrian asylum seekers.
• Zeinab Jalaliyan calls for joint stand against executions 

  Kurdish prisoner Jalaliyan jailed in Iran wrote a letter in prison, calling to “stand against executions all together”.
• Justice for disappeared people demanded in Amed 

  The Human Rights Association and families of the disappeared held sit-in for justice in Amed.
• Saturday Mothers meet in Galatasaray for the 649th time 

  This week Hasan Gülünay was remembered: he disappeared while in police custody.
• Justice for Soma action at Abbasağa Park 

  The march of the Soma miners' families asking for justice reached Istanbul 
• Non-Turkish speaker female prisoner denied medical treatment 

  Sick prisoner Sabiha Uzun isn’t able to get the medical visits she needs because she doesn’t speak Turkish.