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• 4 HDP councilors dismissed and replaced by trustees in Van 

  Trustees have been appointed in the place of 4 HDP councilors dismissed from Edremit district municipality in Van.
• International actions for Rojava on 6 and 7 September 

  All around the world, people have answered the call for Day X, day of Turkish invasion of Rojava, to stand ready and prepared for an aggression of the revolution’s grounds.
• Young people in Mardin call to resist to the trustees 

  Members of the HDP Mardin Youth Assembly said that the greatest pressure and attacks of the trustees are actually carried out against women and youth and called on young people to take to the streets.
• Prisoners in Adana Kürkçüler F-Type Prison attacked with batons 

  Political prisoners in Adana Kürkçüler F-Type Prison were attacked by guards with batons.
• Human chain against the trustees in Amed 

  In Amed, at the end of another long day of protest, the HDP people formed a human chain against the appointment of the trustees.
• Motion ruled out crash Brexit while PM Johnson lose majority 

  A key motion to rule out a crash Brexit on October 31 passed by 328 votes to 301, while PM Boris Johnson lost the working majority.
• Berceto to grant honorary citizenship to Abdullah Ocalan 

  Ocalan to receive honorary citizienship of the city of Berceto, in Italy.
• Mine planted by soldiers injures a child in Kızıltepe, Mardin 

  The boy remains in a life-threatening condition.
• Resistance continues in Amed: We will never bow down 

  Protests against the seizure of municipalities continued in Amed for the 16th day.
• 16th day of resistance for municipalities in Van 

  HDP MP Murat Sarısaç described the seizure of municipalities as a “trustee coup”.
• Resistance against trustees continues in Mardin 

  16th day of protests against trustees appointed to HDP municipalities.
• Öcalan's lawyers apply to visit Imralı 

  Abdullah Öcalan's lawyers have applied to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office to meet with their client.
• HDP’s condolence message for Immanuel Wallerstein 

  HDP expressed their deepest condolences to Wallerstein’s family, friends, and the international community of intellectuals.
• DTK member detained in Amed 

  The AKP regime’s political genocide operations against the representatives and members of Kurdish parties continue uninterrupted.
• 100 thousand people face displacement from Hasankeyf, report says 

  100,000 people will have to migrate due to the building of the Ilisu Dam and the flooding of the 12-thousand-years-old Hasankeyf site and Dicle river bank.
• HDP mayors write to European mayors about trustees 

  The dismissed mayors said: "We acknowledge this decision as a government coup -- the last one in a chain of attacks of the Erdogan regime in recent years against pluralist democracy, against the Kurdish democratic will in particular."
• HDP deputy Maçin: Trustees are the AKP's last move 

  HDP Urfa MP Nusrettin Maçin said: "Having lost Turkey's most important metropolitan cities, the AKP took it once again on Kurdistan where he appointed trustees."
• 5-Stars Movement to decide whether to back new coalition today 

  Last appeal to the 5-Star Movemenby Italian PM Giuseppe Conte ahead of a ballot today to decide whether the movement will back a new coalition with the opposition Democratic Party (PD).
• Amed resistance through ANF's lenses 

  Demonstrations to protest against the AKP-MHP are under way in Amed, Van and Mardin since 19 August when the AKP-MHP alliance appointed trustees, dismissing the democratically elected mayors.
• 15th day of resistance in Van: We will never take a step back 

  HDP Van MP Muazzez Orhan vowed that they will continue their struggle to the end and called for increased objections against the trustee mentality.
• Resistance for municipalities continues in Mardin 

  HDP continues with its protests in Amed, Mardin and Van where the municipalities were seized by the AKP regime on August 19 through the removal of elected mayors and their replacement by appointed trustees.
• Release verdict for Demirtaş who will yet remain in prison 

  Following the amendment passed by the Turkish Parliament on May 20, 2016, almost 150 MPs had their immunities lifted, including 53 HDP MPs, but only the HDP MPs had their mandates revoked.
• Demo against the seizure of HDP municipalities in Rome 

  Protests for HDP municipalities continue across Europe.
• HBDH militia claim responsibility for the yacht fire in Marmaris 

  HBDH militia claimed responsibility for the action which targeted a private yacht in Marmaris, Muğla.
• Turkey's economy continues to shrink 

  Turkish Statistical Institute (TurkStat) announced that gross domestic product by production approach with chain linked volume index decreased by 1.5 percent compared with the same quarter of previous year in the second quarter of 2019.