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• Police attacks protesters in Gebze: Several mothers detained 

  Police attacked the vigil held in Gebze by families of prisoners on hunger strikes demanding an end to the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan. Several mothers were detained.
• Turkish soldiers surround neighborhood, torture people 

  Turkish soldiers raided Gurpinar’s Bukec neighborhood, burned down food supplies and tortured the people.
• Police attack families holding vigil in Gebze: 4 detained 

  Turkish police attacked the vigil prisoners’ relatives were holding in front of the Gebze Type M Closed Prison and detained 4 people.
• Hasbi Cakici on day 101 of resistance 

  Hasbi Cakici is on day 101 of his hunger strike in the Hague demanding an end to the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan.
• Police brutality against families in Istanbul, Amed and Sirnak 

  Turkish police attacked families of prisoners as they held sit-ins in Istanbul and Amed and stopped a press statement to be held in front of the Sirnak Type T Closed Prison.
• Four people including two kids injured in armed attack in Amed 

  Clash erupted after a house was targeted by an armed attack in Amed city. Two people in the house and two kids playing outside were wounded.
• HDP MP Temel: You can’t run from the conscientious responsibility 

  "No government or opposition can stand against a body wasting away. Intellectuals, artists and politicians can’t run from the conscientious responsibility.”
• Hunger strike in Strasbourg: Day 137 

  The hunger strike resistance of the 14 members of the Freedom for Öcalan Initiative was launched on 17 December 2018, with the slogan ‘Let’s break isolation, let’s destroy fascism’.
• HDP writes letter to the international community on death fasts 

  15 political prisoners turned their hunger strike into “death fast” on 30 April 2019 demanding the end of the isolation imposed on Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Academic Kamuran Akın visited hunger strikers in Berlin 

  Academic Kamuran Akın visited Cemal Kobanê, Ömer Bağdur, Mele Mustafa Tuzak and Şiyar Xelil who are on hunger strike in Berlin. 
• Families in Esenyurt: We'll give voice to the hunger strikers 

  Families of the prisoners on hunger strike gathered in Esenyurt Square, where they held a sit-in.
• Erol Aydemir reached day 43 of his hunger strike 

  Hunger strike protests against the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan continue.
• The US toughens the embargo against Cuba 

  Today will come into effect Title III of the so-called Helms-Burton Act.
• Leyla Güven reached day 176 of her hunger strike 

  HDP Hakkari MP and DTK co-chair Leyla Güven has reached day 176 of her hunger strike.
• North of Ireland citizens to vote in local elections today 

  This week’s council elections are an opportunity to demand rights and equality for all, ensure delivery within local government and advance the demand for Irish unity, Sinn Féin Deputy leader Michelle O’Neill has said.
• May 1 celebrations in Europe salute hunger strikers 

  Kurds attending May 1 celebrations in European cities protested the Imrali isolation and saluted the hunger strikers.
• Women lit candles for the hunger strike resistance 

  Protests in Europe continue to echo the demand of the hunger strike resistance: end isolation imposed on Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan. 
• Clashes intensify in Idlib 

  Clashes intensify in Idlib and Hama, which had been declared a “no-clash zone” as per the agreement between Russia and Turkey. Russian jets have bombed several locations as regime forces fired artilleries.
• White scarves form human chain in Amed 

  Women wearing white headscarves attended the May 1 celebrations in Amed where they formed a human chain to draw attention to the political prisoners on hunger strikes. The crowd in the square frequently chant for the resistance in the prisons.
• Prisoners’ mothers with white scarves in Istanbul's May 1 cortege 

  Mothers of prisoners attended the May 1 celebrations in Bakirkoy wearing their white headscarves.
• White scarved mothers not allowed in May 1 celebrations in Amed 

  May 1 celebrations led by the KESK, DISK, Amed Chamber of Medicine and TMMOB have started in Amed. The police is not allowing mothers wearing white headscarves in to the celebration grounds.
• Leyla Güven: 175 days on hunger strike 

  HDP Hakkari MP and DTK co-chair Leyla Güven has reached day 175 of her hunger strike.
• Women political prisoners transferred in Amed 

  Women political prisoners in Diyarbakır E-Type Closed Prison were transferred to the D-Type Prison in the same city.
• Sound bomb actions in Van 

  In Van, a group called ‘Martyr Zamani and Martyr Seve Revenge Units’ said that they carried out at least four sound bombings in April.
• Police beat HDP's Ay at families sit-in in front of Gebze jail 

  HDP Gebze district co-chair Idris Ay was beaten and detained during the peaceful protest of families of prisoners on hunger strike in front of Gebze prison.