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• Ban on visits to Imralı based on Öcalan's "roadmap" 

  The Turkish authorities use the "roadmap for negotiations" submitted to the European Court of Human Rights in 2009 as the justification for the ban on visits by Abdullah Öcalan's team of lawyers.
• HRW: AKP uses 2014 protests as pretext for political crackdown 

  HRW said: The Turkish government’s willingness to use incarceration to restrict the right to political association and crack down on an opposition party is another worrying sign of the erosion of rights and the rule of law in Turkey."
• Huda Kaya: Prayers won't save this government 

  DIK co-spokesperson Hüda Kaya commented on the ruling forces praying in front of the Kars Municipality they seized and said: "Prayers will not save the government."
• Güner Yanlıç from Hevsel Protection Platform detained in Amed 

  Güner Yanlıç, a member of the Hevsel Protection Platform, was detained in Amed after GBT (General Information Gathering) control.
• AvEG-KON calls on democratic forces to stand up for the HDP 

  AvEG-KON called on everyone to show solidarity with the HDP.
• Well known Colombian historian and activist murdered in Medellín 

  There was strong commotion in Medellín for the death of Campo Elías Galindo, a renowned historian and researcher who also served as a member of the Colombia Humana coordinator in this capital.
• South African Communist Party calls for the release of Öcalan 

  Solly Mapaila, vice chairman of the South African Communist Party (SACP) called on Turkey to release Abdullah Öcalan "immediately and unconditionally".
• Iranian pasdaran wound a kolber in Bane 

  The Iranian regime opened fire on kolbers in Bane and wounded a kolber named Idris Barzan.
• HDP statement on the political genocide of the Turkish government 

  Seventeen more members of the HDP have been arrested, including the co-mayor of Kars and former MPs and Central Executive Board members.
• SocDem Asia in solidarity with HDP 

  The Network for Social Democracy in Asia (SocDem Asia) issued a statement of solidarity with the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey.
• EU summit: No sanctions against Erdoğan regime 

  As was to be expected, no punitive measures were imposed on Turkey at the EU special summit in Brussels because of its aggressive attitude in the gas dispute with Greece. Instead, the EU will merely maintain the threat of sanctions.
• Visits to Imralı restricted for six months 

  Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan and three other prisoners on Imralı have been imposed a lawyer visitation ban for six months.
• Attack on Karabakh: First step of Turanian expansion to the East 

  Silo Dirboyan of the Kurdistan Committee in Yerevan sees the Turkish intervention in Artsakh (Nagorno-Karabakh) as part of a "Turanian offensive" and the transfer of merchants from Syria to Azerbaijan as preparation for a campaign against Iran.
• HDP office stormed, executives detained in Aydın province 

  The Turkish regime’s political genocide operations against the Kurdish people and their elected representatives.
• Families apply once again to Prosecutor to go to Imralı 

  Families of Abdullah Öcalan and the other political prisoners in Imralı applied for a visit to the Imrali prison.
• DGH and DGK-H claim actions in Batman and Amed 

  The Revolutionary Youth Movement (DGH) and the Revolutionary Young Women's Movement (DGK-H) set fire to a vehicle in Batman and an electric transformer in Amed.
• Court in Ankara sends 17 HDP members to prison 

  20 members of the HDP were referred to court 9 days after their detention.
• HDP executives detained in Kars give statement to prosecutor 

  The prosecutor's office in Ankara has begun the interrogation of 20 people who were detained in the political coup operation against the Peoples' Democratic Party.
• DBP: AKP-MHP alliance attacks HDP to cover its difficulties 

  "The only party that exposes the AKP-MHP's crimes and opposes its policies is the HDP. This is why the HDP is always the favourite target of the government. The government's plan to 'criminalize' the HDP will come to nothing," said DBP co-chair.
• The AKP-MHP government seizes Kars Municipality 

  The AKP-MHP government has seized the Municipality of Kars and appointed a trustee.
• Public Prosecutor issues confidentiality order on Kars file 

  A confidentiality order was imposed on the investigation file, which was the reason for the detention of 21 people, including Kars Municipality co-mayor Şevin Alaca.
• Germany sentences Kurdish activist to 2 years, 7 months in prison 

  Kurdish activist Mustafa Çelik who was arrested in Bremen in January, has been sentenced in Hamburg to two years and seven months imprisonment for alleged membership in the PKK.
• Syrian mercenary: We entered Azerbaijan through Turkey 

  BBC published interview with Syrian mercenary in Azerbaijan involved in battles with Armenian forces in Karabakh.
• SOHR: 30 Turkish-backed mercenaries killed in Karabakh 

  Nearly 30 Turkish-backed Syrian mercenaries killed in 48 hours, over 60 others missing in Nagorno-Karabakh battles, SOHR reports.
• HDP group boycotts parliamentary session 

  The HDP group has boycotted the first session of the Turkish National Assembly after the summer break and organized a sit-in in the garden of the parliament in Ankara in protest against the repression against the party.