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• Police continue kidnapping and torturing HDP's Youth Members 

  HDP exposed kidnapping and torturing of HDP's Youth Assembly members.
• New massacre in Colombia leaves 3 dead 

  The Colombian Farmers' Association (ANUC) has reported a new massacre in southern Cordoba, in Colombia, that left three people dead, including a minor.
• Öcalan's Italian lawyer says isolation should end 

  Arturo Salerni is a well known Italian lawyer who was part of the defence team of Kurdish national leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Trustee in Kars dissolves city council 

  The governor appointed as trustee to the Municipality of Kars has dissolved the city council and the certificates of the council members have been declared invalid. The Kurdish language Twitter account of the former HDP administration has been closed.
• 72 mercenaries killed in Karabakh as Turkey prepares to send more 

  72 Syrian mercenaries killed since Turkey threw them into raging conflict between Azerbaijan and Armenia, said SOHR and added that Turkey is preparing a new batch of Syrian fighters to be sent to Azerbaijan.
• 173 officials urge France to reconsider its strategy in Karabakh 

  Dozens of French mayors, deputies and senators, including Anne Hidalgo and Laurent Wauquiez, call on France to come out of its position of neutrality in the face of "Azerbaijani aggression against the Armenians" in Nagorno-Karabakh.
• Support with the HDP from People's Democratic Party of Indonesia 

  Dominggus Oktavianus, General Secretary of the People's Democratic Party of Indonesia (PRD) has issued a video message in solidarity with the HDP. 
• 67 Swiss deputies call for immediate release of HDP politicians 

  "We demand Turkey to respect the fundamental freedoms and democratic rights of the people. We want to hear the words "peace" and "dialogue" when talking about the Kurdish people. The HDP is a legal and democratically elected party,"say 67 representatives.
• Some 64 Turkey-backed mercenaries have died in Nagorno Karabakh  

  At least 64 mercenaries sent from the Turkish state to Azerbaijan to fight against the Armenians have been killed, reports said.
• KDP detains Swiss ecologist on his way back from Rojava 

  A Swiss young man, who has been involved in ecologist projects in Rojava for a while to support the Rojava Revolution, was detained in Duhok while on his way back to Geneva. The Swiss ecologist has been held in Hewler for a week.
• Demo for Öcalan’s freedom in front of Swedish parliament 

  Kurds and their friends continue their actions in solidarity with the KCK campaign launched on September 12 against isolation, fascism and occupation.
• Erdoğan threatens another attack on Northern Syria 

  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan threatens another invasion of Northern Syria. "If the terrorist areas are not cleaned up as promised, we will take matters into our own hands," the regime leader said.
• Trustee celebrates seizure of the Kars municipality with prayer 

  After his appointment as trustee in Kars, Governor Türker Öksüz moved into the city hall with an army of bodyguards and blessed the "conquest" of the city with Friday prayers as his first official act.
• Norwegian neo-Nazi charged with ISIS membership in Hewler 

  Norwegian neo-Nazi Oleg Neganov, who converted to Islam, was sentenced to eight years in prison in Southern Kurdistan for ISIS membership.
• 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.