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• Paris City Council condemns ongoing repression of Kurdish mayors 

  The Paris City Council made a significant decision in response to the ongoing repression of Kurdish mayors in Turkey.
• DBP calls on everyone to support the elected representatives of the people in usurped municipalities 

  Making a statement against the usurpation of municipalities, the DBP Central Executive Board said: “We call on all our people and democratic organizations to support the elected representatives of the people.”
• DEM Party protests usurpation of Dersim and Ovacık municipalities  

  The DEM Party protested the usurpation of Dersim and Ovacık municipalities and said: "It is a futile imposition, people will never surrender. We call on all democratic forces to protest this usurpation."
• Dersim Municipality turned into a police station 

  Dersim Municipality was usurped by the AKP-MHP fascist regime. Now the building has been cordoned off by concrete barriers.
• Dersim co-mayor Orhan calls on people to resist the usurpation of municipality 

  Dersim Municipality co-mayor Birsen Orhan was replaced by a government-appointed trustee. She said: “They occupied Dersim in 1938. Today they are occupying our municipality. They are invaders! We call for struggle.”
• People continue to wait in front of Ovacık Municipality 

  The police blockade and the people's vigil continue in the usurped Ovacık Municipality. Mayor Mustafa Sarıgül said: "This government is an enemy of its own country."
• People bring down police barricades in Dersim 

  People’s resistance against the usurpation of Dersim Municipality is growing. The barricades set up by hundreds of police brought from Ankara have been brought down.
• The municipalities of Dersim and Ovacık usurped by the government 

  Tunceli Governor Bülent Tekbıyıkoğlu was appointed in place of Dersim Co-Mayors Cevdet Konak and Birsen Orhan, and district governor Hüseyin Şamil Sözen was appointed in place of Ovacık Mayor Mustafa Sarıgül.
• FED-KURD calls on Germany to end the criminalisation policies against the Kurdish people 

  Stating that Germany's raid against the Kurdish Community Centre in Bremen was unlawful, FED-KURD called for ‘an immediate end to the systematic oppression of the Kurdish people's demands for freedom’.
• Police officer who murdered Şerzan Kurt receives a reduced sentence of 5 years in prison 

  In the case of Şerzan Kurt, the court sentenced the police officer who murdered him in 2010 to 5 years and 2 months in prison.
• DEM Party visits YRP in Ankara 

  DEM Party co-chairs Tülay Hatimoğulları and Tuncer Bakırhan visited New Welfare Party Chairman Fatih Erbakan in Ankara.
• Internationalist activists: Abdullah Öcalan's thoughts and philosophy give us hope 

  Expressing that the aggravated isolation of Abdullah Öcalan is against international law, internationalist activists said, “Abdullah Öcalan's thoughts and philosophy give us hope. We must fight together for his freedom.”
• Police raid the Kurdish Community Centre in Bremen 

  German police raided the Bremen Kurdish Community Centre in the morning and confiscated digital materials.
• Basel DKTM members take over Freedom for Öcalan Vigil and call for Kurdish unity 

  Members of the Basel Democratic Kurdish Community Center said: "The freedom of our leader cannot be secured by those who handed him over to Turkey but by us, the Kurdish people."
• Activists on vigil in front of the UN Office in Geneva demand ‘Freedom for Öcalan’ 

  Activists partaking in the sit-in vigil in Geneva said, “The only way out is to realise Leader Öcalan’s paradigm of freedom.”
• US imposes sanctions on senior Hamas officials, 3 of whom are based in Turkey 

  Following the allegations that the Hamas political bureau would move to Turkey, the US Department of Treasury decided to sanction 6 senior Hamas officials, 3 of whom are based in Turkey.
• ‘Isolation must end for an honourable peace and a solution to the Kurdish question’ 

  Speaking at the Aegean Region Organisation Meeting of her party, DEM Party Co-Chair Tülay Hatimoğulları said “Imrali isolation should be lifted and Abdullah Öcalan should speak for an honourable peace and a solution to the Kurdish question.”
• Co-Mayor of Dersim sentenced to 6 years and 3 months imprisonment 

  Dersim Co-Mayor Cevdet Konak was sentenced to 6 years and 3 months in prison for 'membership in an illegal organisation’.
• Lawyer Geisweid: Isolation imposed on Öcalan is a violation of international law and human rights 

  German lawyer Heike Geisweid said that the isolation imposed on Abdullah Öcalan is a violation of international law and human rights, and that his freedom is a very important and vital issue for the solution of the Kurdish question.
• Karamus: Isolation is a practice against the Kurdish people in the person of Abdullah Öcalan 

  KNK Co-Chair Ahmet Karamus stated that the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan is directed against the entire Kurdish people and emphasised that thousands of people who came together at the Cologne rally shouted ‘Öcalan is our will’.
• US warns Turkey against hosting leaders of Hamas  

  “We will make clear to the Government of Turkey that there can be no more business as usual with Hamas, said the US State Department spokesperson.
• Öcalan's lawyers apply to visit their client in Imrali 

  Lawyers of Asrın Law Office applied to the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and the Prison Directorate to meet with Abdullah Öcalan.
• Twelve people sent to prison in Batman  

  Twelve of the 24 people who were taken into custody under torture during house raids in Batman on 16 November have been sent to prison.
• 76 people killed in Gaza in one day, as attacks on Lebanon also continue 

  It was reported that 76 Palestinians were killed and 158 people were wounded in Israel's attacks on Gaza within 24 hours.
• Co-chairs of DEM Party Esenyurt district branch taken into custody 

  DEM Party Esenyurt District Co-Chairs Rojda Yılmaz and Abdullah Arınan were taken into custody.