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• Margaret Owen goes on hunger strike against Öcalan's isolation 

  Margaret Owen OBE joins Hunger Strike at the Kurdish Community Centre, Haringey.
• Prisoner Akici lost her life after action against isolation 

  Yonca Akici, a prisoner in Şakran Women's Closed jail lost her life after an action to end her life to protest isolation of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Mass hunger strike in front of CoE against isolation 

  The hunger strike in Strasbourg against the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan is on day 106. The mass alternating hunger strike launched last week was moved to the front of the Council of Europe (CoE) offices.
• Hunger strike against isolation in Stockholm 

  Kurds have started a hunger strike action against the isolation of Öcalan in Stockholm.
• Hunger striker Cinar’s health deteriorates 

  Health of writer Ilhami Cinar, political prisoner in the Sakran Prison who is on an indefinite nonalternating hunger strike against the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan, continues to deteriorate.
• Freedom for Ocalan Vigil passes to TCS youth 

  The ongoing vigil held in front of the Council of Europe (CoE) with the motto “Freedom for Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan” continues in week 354 with TCS members taking over.
• British MPs: The isolation must end 

  British MPs visited hunger striker Imam Sis.
• OHD: 279 prisoners on hunger strike in central Anatolia 

  OHD announced that 279 prisoners in central Anatolia are on indefinite nonalternating hunger strikes against the isolation.
• Young people against isolation in Marseille 

  A group of young people living in Marseille organized a civil disobedience action in front of the city’s train station.
• Ciao Orso - memorial for Lorenzo Orsetti in Florence 

  Lorenzo Orsetti (Tekoşer Piling) fell a martyr in Baghouz, Deir ez-Zor in March.
• French Foreign Minister: DAESH women won't be allowed back 

  French Foreign Minister Jean-Yves Le Drian said that DAESH women in Iraq and Syria were “fighters” and should be treated as such. 
• 2.500 votes for the HDP cancelled in Muş 

  Muş HDP co-mayoral candidate Sırrı Sakık stated that 2.500 valid votes for the HDP have been cancelled and they will appeal against it.
• HDP won in 8 cities and 45 districts 

  HDP has won the elections in 8 cities and 45 districts despite all the attacks and fraud of the Turkish state.
• Marianne Magazine: Erdoğan is a dictator 

  In a piece for the French magazine Marianne, Martine Gozlan called Turkish president Erdoğan a “dictator”.
• Hunger strike in Strasbourg: Day 106 

  The hunger strike in Strasbourg has reached day 106 and the activists are receiving many visitors every day. 
• Amed HDP candidates: This victory is for the hunger strikers 

  HDP Amed candidates said that the victory is for the hunger strikers and show the will of people for peace.
• HDP's Temelli: Great success against the trustee mentality 

  HDP co-chair Sezai Temelli held a press conference to evaluate the elections results
• HDP candidate: We will win Muş 

  HDP Muş co-mayor candidate Sırrı Sakık, shared on twitter that there were irregularity in the counting. 
• HDP's Buldan: The policy of the trustees has ended 

  HDP co-chair Pervin Buldan addressed a large crowd in Amed as the elections results were coming through. 
• HDP's Ayhan Bilgen elected mayor in Kars 

  HDP has announced that mayor Ayhan Bilgen has been elected in Kars.
• People of Cizre sent the trustee back to Ankara  

  People reclaimed the Municipality of Cizre, sending the State-appointed trustee back to Ankara. 
• Iğdır said: HDP! 

  According to the latest results, the HDP won the election in Iğdır, where all parties supported the MHP candidate.
• 27 voters detained in İzmir 

  State forces continue their repression against people.
• Protest against isolation in Sydney 

  In Sydney, in solidarity with the prisoners and politicians on hunger strike, a protest against the isolation of the Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan has taken place.
• CHP mayoral candidate for Siverek taken into custody 

  CHP mayoral candidate Fatih Bucak has been taken into custody in Siverek.