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• Keskin: The isolation has spread outside of Imrali 

  IHD Co-chair Eren Keskin pointed out that there has been a sytsemic isolation in place in Imrali for the last 19 years and stated that the isolation has spread outside of Imrali.
• DBP’s Tuncel and 14 female prisoners start hunger strike 

  DBP Co-chair Sebahat Tuncel and 14 other women have gone on a 10-day hunger strike demanding an end to the isolation of Öcalan.
• Lawyers’ appeal to visit Öcalan rejected for the 768th time 

  The 768th application filed by lawyers of Kurdish people's Leader Abdullah Öcalan to meet with their clients was rejected once again by the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office.
• Rights violations in Antalya Prison 

  Leyla Saruhan, who is a prisoner in Antalya L Type Closed Prison, conveyed through her family the violations of rights she is subjected to.
• Turkish state’s prison policy: 437 prisons, 260.000 prisoners 

  On top of the 384 current prisons in Kurdistan and Turkey, 53 new prisons are under construction. The number of arrestees and convicts has reached 260.000, including at least 1500 sick prisoners.
• IHD report on Urfa prisons 

  The Human Rights Association Urfa Branch (IHD) presented a report on Urfa No. 1 and No. 2 T Type Prisons.
• Asrin Law Office: Leyla Guven is pointing to the solution 

  Asrin Law Office pointed out that MP Leyla Guven, currently on a hunger strike against the isolation in Imrali, is pointing to the solution with her resistance. The Office called on the public for awareness.
• “Attacks against Yazidis aim for cultural genocide” 

  Yazidis in Cizire and Shengal said Turkey and allied gangs take advantage of the silence by the international public and attempt to force Yazidis to convert to Islam, stating that the attacks against their faith constitute an attempt at cultural genocide.
• PKK and PAJK prisoners to go on a hunger strike against isolation 

  PKK and PAJK prisoners are going on a 10 day hunger strike on November 27 against the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Situation of ill prisoners exposed 

  The Freedom for Ill Prisoners Initiative made a call to act for ill prisoners Mahmut Aktaş and Ibrahim Akbaba.
• Lawyers on Vigil: Turkey should comply with the ECHR ruling 

  Lawyers in the Justice Vigil called for immediate compliance with the ECHR ruling for Selahattin Demirtaş.
• Lawyers submit the 766th appeal to visit Öcalan 

  Abdullah Öcalan’s lawyers have appealed to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office for the 766th time to meet with their client.
• Öcalan’s lawyer: A torture law is in place in Imrali  

  Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan’s lawyer Newroz Uysal protested the isolation and said a torture law is in place in Imrali and there is a constant State of Emergency. 
• Hunger strike in Van: This is only the beginning 

  The hunger strike of detained HDP MP Leyla Güven against the isolation of the Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan has spread to many cities. The activists in Van said, "This is just the beginning!"
• Politicians start hunger strikes in Amed and Van 

  Support is growing for jailed Kurdish politician Leyla Güven whose indefinite hunger strike against the isolation of Öcalan is continuing. Hunger strikes have been launched by HDP members in Amed and Van.
• HDP MP: We will spread the struggle against the isolation 

  Support grows for Leyla Guven on a hunger strike against the isolation in Imrali. HDP’s female MPs will be holding a statement in front of the Diyarbakir Prison on November 19.
• Families appeal to visit Imralı 

  Families of Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan and the three other prisoners have appealed to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office to visit the Imrali Prison.
• Lawyers staged 79th Vigil for Justice 

  Lawyers demand freedom for their colleagues and an end to the attacks on lawyers.
• HDP MP: I am on a hunger strike until there is a visit to Öcalan 

  HDP MP Leyla Guven launched a hunger strike in the prison she is held in and said, “The actor for the solution of all societal issues Turkey’s population faces is Mr. Öcalan.”
• Cizre Case in the ECHR: Government gives elusive answers 

  In the ECHR hearing of the Cizre Case where two applicants’ appeals are handled, the Turkish state was seen having a difficult time justifying the massacres and accounting for them, resorting to elusive answers.
• HDP MP Güven: My protest will continue until isolation is lifted 

  Hakkari deputy Güven speaks from Amed prison where she has begun an hunger strike against the isolation imposed on Abdullah Öcalan. She said in a message that the current situation is neither sustainable nor acceptable.
• 85 years old Kurdish woman in Turkish jail: Take me to my village 

  Severely sick prisoner Sisê Bingol said, “Take me out of here and to my village before I die.”
• Lawyers submit the 763rd appeal to visit Öcalan 

  Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan’s lawyers appealed to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor’s Office to visit their client.
• All eyes on the ECHR verdict for Cizre 

  All eyes are on the verdict the ECHR, which recently started to issue verdicts in Turkey’s favor, will issue on the atrocities during the self governance resistances in Cizre.
• 181 unidentified bodies in Malatya 

  10 bodies of persons who lost their lives in clashes are being kept in the Malatya Forensic Medicine Institution. 171 bodies have been buried in cemeteries in the city. There are a total of 181 bodies namelessly buried in the city’s cemeteries.