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• DEM Party Group Deputy Chairpersons to meet with the Minister of Justice 

  DEM Party announced that their planned meeting with the Minister of Justice would be attended by Deputy Group Chairpersons Sezai Temelli and Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit.
• DEM Party building in Seyhan, Adana attacked 

  The DEM Party building in Adana's Seyhan district was attacked and the party's signboard was broken.
• Prof. Piazza: I feel responsible for Öcalan’s call 

  Professor Gianni Piazza stated that he feels responsible for Abdullah Öcalan’s 27 February call and called for stronger efforts to ensure his freedom.
• Dilan Kunt Ayan: Judicial reform package is far from democratization 

  Dilan Kunt Ayan said that the upcoming judicial package does not offer any meaningful steps toward democratization.
• DEM Party: Sırrı Süreyya Önder's condition is stable 

  The DEM Party Press Office reported that Sırrı Süreyya Önder's condition is stable and that they continue to receive visits from many circles in hospital.
• Prof. Spena: When Öcalan is free, we can meet peace 

  Prof. Giovanni Russo Spena said that Abdullah Öcalan’s ideas and philosophy constitute an alternative for the whole world and added: “When Öcalan is free, we can meet peace.”
• Sellin: Öcalan must be freed to join the political process 

  French Left Party’s Jean-Christophe Sellin said Abdullah Öcalan should be freed and take part in the search for a political solution.
• DISK: We will be in Kadikoy on May Day, but Taksim remains our demand 

  DISK, KESK, TMMOB, and TTB have announced that this year’s May Day, the International Workers’ Day, will be celebrated in Kadikoy.
• Prisoners send message of solidarity to Sırrı Süreyya Önder 

  The prisoners in the Kobanê Trial sent wishes and expressed their full confidence in Sırrı Süreyya Önder’s recovery.
• Öztürk: Peace efforts will strengthen the common struggle 

  Chairperson of the EHP, Hakan Öztürk, stated that the Kurdish Freedom Movement’s pursuit of peace would reinforce unity and the broader struggle.
• Italian activist: Öcalan must be freed 

  Youth activist Aurora stated that Abdullah Öcalan must be freed and urged the youth of the world to organize.
• New statement from hospital: Önder's life-threatening condition continues 

  Florence Nightingale Hospital, where DEM Party İmralı Committee member Sırrı Süreyya Önder is being kept in intensive care, has announced: "Our patient is high-risk, and his life-threatening condition continues."
• Lawyer Kozağaçlı detained less than 24 hours after release 

  Lawyer Selçuk Kozağaçlı was taken into custody less than a day after his release from prison.
• May Day Organizing Committee in Zurich invites Öcalan as the main speaker to this year’s rally 

  Abdullah Öcalan was invited as the main speaker to this year's May Day Day rally in Zurich, Switzerland.
• Date of the DEM Party meeting with the Ministry of Justice to be determined next week 

  DEM Party stated that the date of the İmralı delegation's meeting with the Ministry of Justice will be determined next week.
• KCK: Our hearts beat with Sırrı Süreyya Önder’s 

  KCK: “Our efforts to ensure the success of the process, which has developed with the great labor and efforts of the esteemed Sirri Sureyya Onder and which Rêber Apo has initiated with his historic ‘Call for Peace and Democratic Society’, will continue."
• International Conference on the experiences of Kurdish municipalities in Strasbourg 

  An international conference focusing on the experiences of Kurdish municipalities is being organized in Strasbourg. The conference will explore the innovative governance practices of Kurdish municipalities and their contributions to European democracy.
• Beşiktaş Municipality investigation: Detention order issued for 12 people 

  Following the arrest of the Deputy Mayor of Beykoz, a detention order was issued for 12 municipal employees, including Beşiktaş Deputy Mayor Ali Rıza Yılmaz.
• Hülakü: A solution needs real steps and strong will  

  DEM Party MP Ömer Faruk Hülakü stressed that resolving the Kurdish issue requires not only a genuine will but also concrete and lasting steps.
• Aslan: The government fears unity of Kurds and workers 

  EMEP chair, Seyit Aslan, said the government fears the growing unity between the Kurdish struggle and the struggle of workers from Turkey.
• Sırrı Süreyya Önder's period of sedation extended for 5 more days 

  Kemal Kılıçdaroğlu visited Sırrı Süreyya Önder and said that doctors had decided to keep him under sedation for five more days.
• Approximately 3,500 children have died in the central Mediterranean over the past 10 years 

  18 April marks 10 years since a catastrophic shipwreck off the coast of Italy killed more than 1,000 people, including children.
• Freedom for Öcalan Vigil in Strasbourg in its 669th week 

  The vigil launched in Strasbourg on June 25, 2012 demanding the freedom of Abdullah Öcalan continues in its 669th week.
• Deputy Mayor of Beykoz remanded in custody 

  Fidan Gül, the Deputy Mayor of Beykoz District Municipality, who was detained on Tuesday within the scope of the “bid rigging” investigation, was remanded in custody.
• Dr. Attia: The responsibility for the implemention of Öcalan’s call lies with the Turkish state 

  Fernaz Attia, an Egyptian doctor of political science, said that the responsibility for the implementation of Abdullah Öcalan’s call lies with the Turkish state.