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• AKP-MHP alliance fails 

  MHP Leader Devlet Bahceli announced that the alliance with the AKP has failed in his speech in the party’s parliamentary group meeting.
• IPU for jailed HDP deputies in Turkey 

  Inter-Parliamentary Union, organization made up of national parliaments from around the world, gives voice to MPs silenced at home.
• Is Iraqi government taking shape? 

  Adil Abdulmehdi charged with establishing the new Iraqi government will also decide the ministers.
• Academic delegation from Rojava visited South Kurdistan 

  A delegation of academics from Afrin, Kobanê and Rojava universities arrived in South Kurdistan.
• What will become of the Idlib Agreement? 

  The agreement concluded in Sochi between Russia and Turkey to establish a demilitarized zone in Idlib has not been complied with. The deadline expired on 15 October.
• Bilgen: The results will be determined by the people, not Erdogan 

  HDP Group Deputy Chairperson Ayhan Bilgen said the people will determine the outcome despite Erdogan’s threats against their party. Bilgen stressed that, “The opposition will win if they develop strategies to alleviate the weariness of society.”
• Refugee boat capsized off Bodrum: Two children dead 

  Off the Turkish coast, a boat has sunk on the route to the Greek island of Kos. Two children were killed.
• Brexit sparks new controversy in Ireland 

  Unionists from the North accused Dublin government to spread fear over Brexit.
• Ireland to elect President on Friday 

  Current President Michael D Higgins ahead in opinion polls.
• ‘Freedom for Öcalan’ vigil launched in Vienna 

  The ‘Freedom for Öcalan’ vigil started in Vienna will last two months.
• SOS Public University in Colombia 

  Thousands of students took to the streets in Colombia to defend Public Universities.
• Lunnebach: The PKK ban started as an exception, turned into law 

  Lawyer to Kurds in Germany Edith Lunnebach spoke in the ongoing conference in Berlin on the PKK ban and said: “The ban and obstacles against Kurds started with exceptions, and in time it turned into law.”
• Another FARC member murdered in Colombia 

  FARC denounced the assassination of one of its members.
• MP Özdemir: What do we know about jihadists in Hamburg? 

  Hamburg State Federal Parliament MP Cansu Özdemir took the issue of radical jihadists recently starting to reorganize to the state parliament.
• “Continuation of captivity” verdict in the Nusaybin Case 

  The court has ruled for the continuation of captivity for the prisoners in the Nusaybin Case. The hearing was postponed.
• Pressure building over the Khashoggi incident 

  As claims that Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi was murdered in the consulate can’t be hidden any more, the pressure is building on the Riyadh administration.
• Putin-Macron-Merkel-Erdogan summit to be held on October 27 

  Turkish, Russian, German and French administrations will meet in Istanbul to discuss the Syrian crisis.
• HDP MP: Arrests aim to stop the protests for Öcalan 

  HDP MP Saliha Aydeniz said that as long as the isolation of Abdullah Ocalan continues, the political situation in the Middle East will not improve.
• The Nusaybin Case: We were tortured, we will never give up 

  Prisoner Hamit Acun spoke in the hearing of the Nusaybin Case and said there was a dignified stance in the name of humanity in Nusaybin. Acun said, “I won’t give up my ideas” and spoke about how they were tortured.
• EP Rapporteur Kati Piri visits HDP and the Demirtas family 

  EP Rapporteur for Turkey Kati Piri visited the HDP and Basak Demirtas, imprisoned former HDP Co-chair Selahattin Demirtas’ wife.
• Lawyer attacked for saying “Kurdistan” 

  CHD member Lawyer Siar Risvanoglu was subjected to a racist attack for using the words “guerrilla” and “Kurdistan” in the Adana Bar Association General Assembly.
• Kurdish youth killed in military service 

  Mehmet Boztepe from Urfa was doing his mandatory military service in the Turkish army in Ankara when he was foud dead. The state claims Boztepe committed suicide, but there are signs Boztepe may have been murdered.
• Clash between ISIS and Iraqi forces in Hawija 

  Fighting erupted between ISIS gangs and Iraqi forces in villages in Kirkuk’s Hawija district.
• Over 100 thousand people affected by polluted water in Basra 

  Iraq Human Rights Commission confirmed some 110,000 people affected by polluted water in Basra.
• People's Houses Executives detained 

  A new police operation has been launched in Ankara, this time targeting People's Houses executives.