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• Turkey's response to the UN: There is no isolation in İmralı, but a ban on visits 

  The Turkish delegation failed to provide a legal answer to UN Special Rapporteur against Torture, Maeda Naoko's question on the İmralı isolation, saying; “There is no isolation, there is a ban.”
• Activists in Berlin protest Imrali isolation 

  TCŞ members and internationalist youth carried out a civil disobedience action at the ARD Press Center in Berlin against the Imrali isolation.
• Leonardo Perez: Turkey should be recognised as an occupying power 

  Pointing out that the Turkish state violated international law in Syria and Iraq with its invasion attacks, Maloca Internationale Representative Leonardo Rodriguez Perez said that the Turkish state should be recognised as an occupying power.
• DEM Party: Statement about Imrali should be made immediately  

  The Peoples' Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party has called on the government to lift the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan.
• Death toll in the Gaza war rises to 38,664 dead 

  At least 80 people have died in the Gaza Strip in the last 24 hours.
• Remains of 139 people exhumed from a mass grave in Tal Afar 

  The remains of 139 people believed to have been massacred by ISIS were found in a mass grave in Tal Afar, west of Mosul. The victims are said to be Yazidi and Shiite Turkmen civilians and security forces personnel.
• Kirkuk Provincial Council delegation in Ankara 

  Following the first official meeting of the Kirkuk Provincial Council, a delegation travelled to Ankara upon Turkey's request. The delegation consists of Rekan Jiburi, the acting Governor of Kirkuk, and members of the Turkmen Front.
• Hamas: Death toll in the Gaza Strip reached 38,584 

  The war in the Gaza Strip has entered its tenth month, costing tens of thousands of lives.
• 68 percent disabled man arrested for his social media posts 

  Disabled Mustafa Yaşar was arrested in Istanbul and sent to Metris Prison.
• Hamas withdraws from talks on a ceasefire in Gaza 

  A senior Hamas official announced their withdrawal talks on a ceasefire in the Gaza war because of Israeli "massacres" and its attitude in negotiations.
• KCK: When resisted in the spirit of July 14th, the enemy will be defeated 

  KCK pays tribute to all the immortal martyrs of the historic Great July 14 resistance which marks the beginning of a death fast in Amed prison in 1982.
• Kongra Star Assembly issues a statement about human rights violations and violence against women in  

  Kongra Star Assembly issued a statement about human rights violations and violence against women in the Syrian regions occupied by the Turkish state and its mercenaries.
• Activists march in Cologne to protest Turkish state's invasion attacks  

  Activists held a march in Cologne to protest the Turkish state's invasion attacks against South Kurdistan.
• Activists in Melbourne protest Turkish state's invasion attacks  

  In Melbourne, Kurds and their friends protested the Turkish state's invasion attacks against South Kurdistan.
• Village guards who resigned denounce threats 

  The village guards who resigned because they refused to be part of the occupation attacks in Zap, Avaşîn and Metina regions were threatened. 17 July had been set as the date on which the village guards would be deployed.
• Kurds in Berlin to demonstrate against war in Middle East and Turkish attacks on South Kurdistan 

  The Kurdish community association Nav-Berlin is calling for a demonstration against the war in the Middle East and the Turkish occupation attacks on South Kurdistan. The protest will begin today, Saturday, at 1 p.m. on Oranienplatz.
• Putin opposes Erdoğan-Assad meeting in Baghdad 

  The Russian president reportedly favours a high-level meeting between Turkish and Syrian leaders in Turkey rather than Baghdad.
• KCDK-E calls for protest actions everywhere against Turkish occupation and genocide 

  KCDK-E calls for mass protests everywhere to oppose the genocide of the Turkish state in continuous mobilisation.
• Prisoner Yaşa dies in Finland 

  Cancer patient Mehmet Ali Yaşa, who was released two months before completing his 30-year sentence, died in Finland, where he went for treatment.
• HBDH militia set a recycling centre and a carpet factory on fire in Bodrum 

  HBDH Kemal Pir Militia announced that they set fire to a recycling centre and a carpet factory belonging to a fascist person in a holiday resort in Bodrum.
• ESP calls for resistance against colonial occupation 

  The Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) called on all peoples and the proletarian left movement to take their place on the side of humanity, resistance, honour and freedom against Turkish occupation of Southern Kurdistan.
• Baghdad condemns the attacks by the Turkish state 

  After the Turkish state escalated its invasion attacks in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, the Baghdad government condemned the attacks and sent a high-level security delegation to South Kurdistan.
• TEV-ÇAND Europe calls on everyone to stand up against Turkish attacks  

  TEV-ÇAND Europe issued a statement to protest the invasion attacks by the Turkish army and said: "Today is the day of resistance. Today is the day to stand up against the attacks wherever we are."
• Israel says 60 percent of Hamas fighters were killed or wounded 

  Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant claimed to have "eliminated or wounded 60%" of Hamas fighters in the more than nine-month war in the Gaza Strip, calling it a military "success".
• ‘Freedom for Öcalan’ vigil in Strasbourg in its 628th week 

  A group from the Hessen region of Germany took over the 12-year-long vigil in Strasbourg demanding the freedom of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan in the 628th week.