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• 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.
• HDP to start local elections work on 20 October 

  The HDP will begin to work for the local elections on 20 October in Amed.
• Lawyers and human rights defenders to discuss the PKK ban 

  A conference is to be held in Germany to discuss the PKK ban, which will be 25 next year, and the damage it has done to Kurds and the German democracy. The conference will be held on October 20 with many lawyer and human rights defender participants.
• Syria-Jordan border to reopen 

  Three years after the border was closed, it will now reopen with some limitation.
• Hamburg, Turin, Pinerolo, Toulouse say no to isolation 

  Demonstrations have taken place in Hamburg, Turin, Pinerolo and Toulouse to condemn the isolation imposed on Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan
• Lawyer Cihan Aydın elected Amed new Bar President 

  Lawyers in Amed held their 54th Ordinary General Assembly.
• Kurds marched in Bordeaux for Öcalan 

  Actions for Öcalan continued around Europe.
• The migrants dead in the accident in Izmir are 22 

  The number of victims have increased, number of wounded also on the rise.
• HDP deputy Taşdemir on latest political operations 

  AKP's misogynistic policies are exposed by latest political operations
• Freiburg demands freedom for Öcalan 

  A rally was organised in the city of Freiburg to demand freedom for Öcalan and condemn the international conspiracy which led to his capture.
• European cities demanded freedom for Öcalan 

  The actions were to condemn the 9 October 1988 international conspiracy against Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan and the isolation regime imposed on him in Imrali. 
• Number of migrants dead in Izmir accident rose to 19 

  The migrants were put in the truck and were to be taken to the Greek island of Samos.
• Dozens of actions to demand Freedom for Öcalan 

  Protest actions and demonstrations have taken place in at least 9 countries and 20 cities responding to the call of the KCDK-E Co-Presidency Council and the European Kurdish Women's Movement (TJK-E).
• Sydney against isolation imposed on Öcalan 

  A large crowd of Kurds and Australians met in Sydney to demand freedom for Öcalan.
• Eighteen migrants die in truck accident in Izmir 

  The migrants were traveling on a truck which lost control and fell into an irrigation canal.
• Foreign delegation visited HDP in Ankara 

  Parties and movements from Tunisia to Lebanon visited the HDP in Ankara.
• Temelli: Time to raise the struggle for peace and democracy 

  HDP Co-Chair Sezai Temelli, spoke at the Urfa party's provincial congress and assessed the current political situation and the agenda for the next month. 
• Iraq Parliament scheduled to meet today 

  Iraqi Parliament meet on Saturday.
• Turkish army wounds farmer in Serêkaniyê 

  A farmer was wounded when Turkish soldiers opened fire targeting village on the border.
• 15 people remanded in custody in Van 

  15 people were remanded in Van as part of the political genocide operation launched by the government against Kurds.