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• KCK: Isolation hasn’t ended, demands haven’t been met 

  KCK: “The isolation hasn’t ended, and the demands of the resistance haven’t been met. The lawyers’ visit to Imrali was planned only to ease the domestic and foreign pressure created by the resistance to break the isolation.”
• European Union reacted to Istanbul elections re-run decision 

  EU's Mogherini: "Ensuring a free, fair and transparent election process is essential to any democracy and is at the heart of the European Union’s relations with Turkey."
• Prisoner Akhan: Isolation still on, the resistance continues 

  Ergin Akhan, one of the prisoners who turned his hunger strike into death fast, said that the resistance will not end until the isolation of Öcalan ends.
• Hunger striker Imam Şiş: The resistance goes on 

  Şiş underlined the need for fully enjoying the free life Öcalan envisaged and called on people to step up the struggle and achieve freedom. 
• Families in Esenyurt: Vigil to continue until demands are met 

  The action in support of the hunger strike resistance promoted in Esenyurt Square by the families of prisoners on hunger strike continued despite the police harassment.
• Strasbourg hunger strikers: The resistance will go on 

  Sarıkaya said that with the meeting with Öcalan, a more important, strategic point has been reached.
• YSK rules for a rerun of Istanbul mayoral election 

  Gathering upon AKP’s request, Turkey’s Supreme Election Board (YSK) has made its final decision for Istanbul local election.
• Meeting with French AI official on Öcalan’s isolation 

  The delegation provided information regarding the latest situation in hunger strikes and death fasts in Turkey, Kurdistan and Europe.
• Uppsala Left Party shows solidarity with hunger strikers 

  "The ongoing hunger strikes are to achieve peace. We demand an end to the isolation.”
• Hunger strikers’ families: We are proud of them 

  Cemal Kobane, Omer Bagdur, Mele Mustafa Tuzak and Siyar Xelil’s families visited them as they continue their hunger strike in Berlin, stating that they are proud of them.
• Greens MP: Isolation is a human rights violation 

  Berivan Aymaz from Germany’s Greens said they as a party are concerned that there are thousands of people on hunger strikes and stressed that isolation is a human rights violation.
• Police attacked mothers of prisoners, detained 4 in Bakırköy 

  Turkish police have again attacked the mothers of prisoners in front of Bakırköy Prison in Istanbul and detained 4 people.
• Mothers march in Amed despite police ban 

  The mothers continued their sit-in in front of the TUAY-DER for a while after arriving under police blockade.
• Families resist despite the attack 

  Families gathered in front of the Urfa Type T Prison to draw attention to the death fasts and hunger strikes launched a sit-in despite an attack by soldiers.
• Actions by Revolutionary Youth Movement  

  The Revolutionary Youth Movement (DGH) and the Revolutionary Young Women's Movement (DGKH) carried out actions in Amed and Van.
• Öcalan’s lawyers to hold a press conference 

  Lawyers of Öcalan will make a statement to the press this afternoon.
• 47 years ago, Deniz, Yusuf, Hüseyin 

  47 years ago, on 6 May 1972, Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Huseyin Inan were hanged in Ankara.
• Mothers in Esenyurt Square: We are not afraid of them 

  Mothers in Esenyurt Square reiterated their will to hold their sit-in to support their sons and daughters on hunger strike.
• Hunger strike in Strasbourg: Day 141 

  The hunger strike resistance of the 14 members of the Freedom for Öcalan Initiative was launched on 17 December 2018.
• Leyla Güven: Day 180 of hunger strike 

  HDP Hakkari MP and DTK co-chair Leyla Güven has reached day 180 of her hunger strike demanding the end of isolation against Abdullah Öcalan.
• Syriza meeting in Greece talked about hunger strike resistance 

  An election meeting was promoted by Syriza in Lavrio, Athens.
• Italy asked CPT to take its responsibility on isolation 

  A long list of signatures have been collected in an appeal against isolation addressed to the CPT and the European Union. 
• Prisoner Sinem Oğuz: 102 days on hunger strike 

  Sinem Oğuz is one of the 3000 prisoners on indefinite hunger strike demanding the end of isolation against imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Second day of hunger strike in Stuttgart 

  The hunger strike launched by the Life against Isolation Platform in Stuttgart continues on its second day.
• Leyla Güven reached day 179 of hunger strike 

  HDP Hakkari MP and DTK co-chair Leyla Güven has reached day 179 of her hunger strike.