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• Muş HDP co-chair Nergiz sent to prison 

  Muş HDP co-chair, Belma Nergiz, has been arrested. The politician, who has been running the provincial organisation for only a month, is accused of membership in a terrorist organization.
• The Spirit of 15 August is Alive! 

  Internationalist Commune, Young Internationalist Women and RiseUp4Rojava released a statement on the anniversary of 15 August.
• Turkish police detain 102 people in four cities 

  The Turkish police detained at least 102 people, including a journalist, during house raids against Kurds in Amed, Van, Adana and Mersin cities in the morning hours.
• Jailed artist joins hunger strike against isolation 

  Artist İlyas Arzu has joined the hunger strike against the Imrali isolation.
• White climate, white energy: a time for movement reflection?  

  Peace in Kurdistan Campaign is involved in a monthly series of collaborative publications on re-envisaging self-determination and international struggle in the 21st century. The sixth paper is about climate and energy.
• Police detain many following political operation in Adana 

  Many people were detained in the political genocide operation carried out by the Turkish police in Adana this morning.
• 18 farmers who protested against DEDAŞ detained in Urfa 

  In Urfa, 18 farmers who protested against electricity distribution company DEDAŞ over power cuts and excessive bills have been taken into custody.
• Lawyers file another application to visit Öcalan on Imrali 

  Abdullah Öcalan's lawyers have applied once again to visit their client on Imrali after his call for a meeting with his lawyers within a legal framework.
• HDK: Ankara attack would only benefit fascism 

  HDK issued a statement condemning the racist attack against Syrian refugees in Ankara, saying, "Only fascism feeds on racial uprisings."
• Şenyaşar family banned and fined by the police 

  The police, who wanted to prevent Şenyaşar family, fined Ferit Şenyaşar.
• AKP people chuck 150 thousand TL around during the flood tragedy in Van 

  During the flood tragedy, AKP executives gathered for a 150 thousand TL banquet in Çaldıran district of Van province.
• 3-year-old boy shot in the head in Ceylanpınar 

  A bullet reportedly fired from Serêkaniyê which is under Turkish occupation, hit a 3-year-old boy in Ceylanpınar district of Urfa province bordering with Syria. The boy was seriously injured.
• Nationalist mob attacks Syrian refugees in Ankara 

  A nationalist mob has roamed residential areas in the Turkish capital Ankara and attacked the homes and businesses of Syrian refugees. Cars were set on fire and shops ransacked while police did not intervene.
• Activists at sit-in in Geneva call for participation to 14 August march in Zurich 

  Kurdish people living in Geneva continue the sit-in protest in front of the United Nations office. The action is being held every Wednesday since January 25 demanding the liberation of Abdullah Öcalan.
• German SPD politician pays solidarity visit to HDP in Izmir 

  The foreign policy spokesman of the SPD parliamentary group, Nils Schmid, has visited the HDP in Izmir to express his solidarity. Two months ago, a female employee was shot dead by a Turkish fascist at the party headquarters.
• HDP MP Hüda Kaya pays visit to Şenyaşar family 

  Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) lawmaker Hüda Kaya visited the Şenyaşar family that has been carrying out a justice vigil in Urfa.
• Event to discuss Germany's role in view of the autocratic development in Turkey 

  On Friday, an event with the Bundestag candidate Mizgin Ciftci (DIE LINKE) and the activist Hugo Peckes from the #Delegation4Peace will take place in Einbeck. The topic is Germany's responsibility in the face of Turkey's development.
• ‘Migrants from Afghanistan might be used by paramilitary forces’ 

  In the vicinity of the bus station in Amed, hundreds of people live on the run, most of them from Afghanistan. Bawer Mizrak of the Bar Association demands a status for them and warns that they could be used by paramilitary forces.
• No Border Assembly: "Stop deportations to Turkey" 

  A Kurdish family from Turkey is to be deported from Berlin to Ukraine after weeks in deportation custody. The No Border Assembly is calling for participation in a demonstration in front of the deportation detention center in Schönefeld on Wednesday.
• KON-MED calls for participation in Düsseldorf rally on August 14 

  KON-MED called for broad participation in a march to be staged in the city of Düsseldorf on August 14.
• Another application by lawyers to visit Öcalan 

  Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan has been imprisoned on Imrali Island for 22 years under conditions of severe isolation.
• Police take HDP Muş provincial co-chair Nergiz into custody 

  Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Muş provincial co-chair, Belma Nergiz, was detained in the morning.
• HDP visits Thrace as part as the "We are HDP, we are everywhere" campaign 

  The "We are HDP, we are everywhere" campaign reached Thrace for a two-day visit. Attention was drawn to the ongoing isolation of Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan and the ongoing hunger strikes in prison.
• Turkey seeking to use graves in Libya as a trump card for its political games  

  The Turkish state is looking to discover "mass graves" to weaken its rivals.
• At least 146 died at workplace in July 

  The civil society network ISIG announced the numbers of workers killed by labor conditions in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan for the month of July. In one month, 146 deaths, ten of them minors, were registered.