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• HDP deputies meet Argentinean Secretariat of Human Rights 

  As part of their tour of Latin America, HDP deputies Gunay and Paylan met with the Secretariat of Human Rights and Cultural Pluralism of the government of Argentina.
• Hasankeyf on Swedish and Finnish media 

  With the Erdogan regime flooding 12-thousand-year history of Hasankeyf, Sumerian, Assyrian, Armenian and Babylonian, Ayyubid, Byzantine, Roman, Persian and Ottomans' 550 culture and historical artifacts are to be destroyed.
• Hakkari Governor extended ban on public events for another month 

  Hakkari Governorate has extended the ban on actions and activities for another month in the city.
• Sweden Labor Party youth: Stop selling arms to Turkey! 

  The Social Democratic Labor Party's youth organization SSU demanded to halt the sale of arms to the Turkish government that is threatening to invade Rojava.
• Police operations against HDP continue in Mardin and Şırnak 

  The number of HDP people detained in Mardin and Şırnak is on the increase following new raids this week.
• New political police operation in Urfa: 25 taken into custody 

  25 people were detained during house raids carried out by police in Urfa within the scope of political genocide operations.
• HDP deputies continue their tour in Argentina 

  HDP deputies Ebru Gunay and Gato Paylan visited the Central of Workers of Argentina (Autonomous CTA) after the conference they gave in a packed room in the Senate.
• 15 August celebrated in Saratov 

  Kurds living in Russia celebrated the anniversary of the 15 August Initiative in Saratov.
• Fire broke out in Lice 

  A fire has broke out in Lice, province of Amed.
• Swedish MP: We must mobilize for Rojava 

  Left Party MP Daniel Riazat said the Turkish state aims to destroy the egalitarian, just and ecologist system in Northern and Eastern Syria and added: “we must mobilize to defend Rojava.”
• Germany sells 216 million euros of military equipment to Turkey 

  Turkey is Germany’s third best non-EU customer, coming in after China and Russia.
• Iraqi Prime Minister warns countries flying without authorization 

  Prime Minister Adil Abdulmehdi issued a warning to aircrafts entering Iraqi airspace without authorization from the government.
• HDP MP Başaran condemns latest wave of arrests 

  Başaran said that the AKP-MHP alliance should give up trying to hide its own failure by attacking the HDP.
• 15 August commemorated in Saarbrücken 

  The 15 August Initiative was celebrated enthusiastically in Saarbrücken, Germany.
• HDP deputies Günay and Paylan meet Mothers of Plaza de Mayo 

  HDP Mardin MP Ebru Günay and Amed MP Garo Paylan are on a tour in Latin America.
• 15 August celebrations in Paris, Marseille and Vienna 

  The 15 August Initiative was celebrated in Paris, Marseille and Vienna.
• HDP MP Leyla Güven takes prisoners rights to parliament 

  HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven asked Minister of Justice Abdulhamit Gül about the rights violations in Diyarbakır Women's Closed Prison.
• Migrants on the Open Arms to be taken in by 6 European countries 

  The 147 migrants on board of the rescue ship Open Arms will be taken in by six European countries.
• 15 August commemorated in Lavrio 

  The 15 August Initiative was commemorated in Lavrio, Greece.
• Yemen separatists say they are ready to hold talks 

  The separatists are a major component of the alliance that intervened in Yemen in March 2015 against the Houthis.
• 15th August 1984 - more than a military offensive 

  “The dynamic and well-organized liberation struggle under the leadership of the PKK is now present and alive in all parts of the world. Wherever there are Kurds, there is also the spirit of the PKK.”
• At least 27 HDP members detained in 3 cities 

  At least 27 HDP members have been detained in Mardin. Sirnak and Izmir. Police raided a house in Nusaybin and shot at the door to force it to open.
• Unemployment in Turkey increased 

  The youth unemployment, i.e. affecting people aged between 15 and 24, reached to 23.3%, rising 5.5 percentage points on a yearly basis.
• Cizre HDP Municipality trying to reclaim the River Tigris 

  Abandoned in the hands of the Special Provincial Administration the parks on the River Tigris banks soon became a garbage depo representing a serious problem for Cizre.
• Pentagon: Agreement on safe zone to be implemented in stages 

  The agreement aims at creating a buffer between the Turkish border and areas controlled by the Kurdish People’s Defense Units (YPG).