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• PCF calls for release of political prisoners in Turkey 

  The Communist Party of France (PCF) said that the prison sentence handed out to DTK co-chair Leyla Güven is unacceptable.
• EH Bildu: Arrest of Leyla Güven is a new attack on Kurds 

  Basque left coalition EH Bildu saw the detention of Leyla Güven has an attack on Kurds and demanded Turkey "to cease all these attacks and comply with the European convention of Human Rights and free Demirtas."
• Güven's lawyer says the government is committing a crime 

  Leyla Güven’s lawyer, Serdar Çelebi, said that in fact who committed a crime is the AKP-MHP government. "Personal and discretional rules are actually applied. We are concerned about Leyla Güven's health problems."
• PACE rapporteurs urge Turkey to release Demirtaş 

  Selahattin Demirtaş must be released now, said PACE rapporteurs and urged the Turkish authorities to implement the final judgment of the European Court of Human Rights.
• HDP calls for the release of Demirtaş and all jailed politicians 

  Demirtaş and all politicians who have been taken hostages must immediately be released, says the HDP.
• HRW calls for the immediate release of Demirtaş 

  “The Turkish government must act without delay and cannot disregard this judgment with specious arguments that it doesn’t apply to Demirtaş’ current detention,” said the Europe and Central Asia director at Human Rights Watch.
• FEDA: Arrest of Leyla Güven is an intimidation effort 

  The arrest of DTK co-chair and Hakkari Deputy Leyla Güven means an intimidation, said FEDA.
• Leyla Güven transferred to Elazığ 

  Kurdish politician Leyla Güven has been transferred to a prison in Elazığ. For several hours her whereabouts were unknown, lawyers received no information about the transfer.
• AKP/MHP lobbyist caught with 100 kilograms of heroin at EU border 

  Veysel Filiz, AKP/MHP lobbyist and press officer of the Turkish Embassy in Brussels, expelled for espionage, has been arrested upon entering the EU with a hundred kilograms of heroin in his luggage.
• Hunger strike in prisons on day 27 

  The hunger strike launched by prisoners to end the isolation of Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan and violations in prisons entered its 27th day.
• Sinn Féin MLA Anderson calls for the release of Leyla Güven 

  Leyla Güven should be released immediately along with Abdullah Öcalan to assist the peace process in the region, said Sinn Féin MLA Martina Anderson.
• KCDK-E: Expose the fascist Turkish regime wherever you are 

  KCDK-E stated that the women's freedom line and the freedom struggle are taken prisoner in the person of Leyla Güven.
• Demo for Leyla Güven in Frankfurt 

  Women from different organizations joined the action at Hauptwache Square Tuesday afternoon, including Women Defend Rojava.
• Yazidi Coordination: Only resistance can make fascism retreat 

  The European Yazidi Coordination cricised Leyla Güven's arrest and gave a message of resistance.
• Protest against the arrest of Leyla Güven in Brussels 

  The arrest of DTK co-chair and HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven was protested in Belgium on Tuesday.
• Police attack DBP protest in solidarity with Leyla Güven 

  Police attacked a group of people who protested the arrest of DTK co-chair and HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven. Many people were detained during police intervention in which HDP MPs were also battered.
• Motion in UK parliament over transparency and democracy in KRG 

  Motion in the UK parliament calls on the Foreign Secretary to "express concerns and support calls for transparency and accountability in the region with his Kurdish Regional Government counterpart as a matter of urgency."
• HDP rejects hostile sentence imposed on Leyla Güven 

  The HDP said in its statement: "The sentence of 22 years and 6 months in prison in the legal case in Diyarbakır against Ms Leyla Güven is the result of the applied enemy law."
• Two HDP members taken into custody in Balıkesir 

  Two HDP members were detained in a home raid in Balıkesir.
• Leyla Güven taken into custody in Amed 

  Kurdish politician Leyla Güven, who was sentenced to more than 22 years in prison yesterday, has been arrested in an apartment in Amed and transferred to the court last night.
• 10 more people detained in Batman over Kobanê protests in 2014 

  The Turkish regime’s political genocide against the Kurdish population continues unabated.
• EU calls on Turkey to release Osman Kavala 

  EU’s Spokesperson for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Massralı has criticized the continued imprisonment of Osman Kavala: “The decision last Friday runs against Turkey’s stated commitment to the rule of law and the respect of fundamental rights.”
• Five seasonal workers from Kobanê arrested in Adana 

  Five seasonal workers from Kobanê have been arrested in the Turkish province of Adana on terror charges.
• Despite protocol, Germany did not mention the NES Administration 

  Only one of the ISIS women handed over by the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria was detained upon entering Germany. Despite the protocol signed for the delivery of ISIS members, German officials did not mention the Administration of NES.
• Police take down HDP flags in Van 

  The Turkish police removed the flags hung by the HDP to mark the congress to be celebrated in Van saying that "the governorship had mistakenly given the permission".