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• 120 people including 30 minors detained in Adana in 5 days 

  During the last 5 days, 120 people including 30 minors have been taken into custody in the southern province of Adana.
• Sinn Féin calls for immediate release of HDP MPs 

  Sinn Féin MEP Martina Anderson described the mass arrest of MPs from HDP, including its two co-chairs, as an attack on democracy designed to silence the main voice of opposition.
• Message from HDP Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş 

  HDP Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş said: "The fact that we, along with our members of parliament, were taken hostage as the result of what amounts to a civilian coup d’état is not merely an attack on us as individuals"
• DBP Co-chair Tuncel and HDP MP Akdoğan transferred to Silivri Prison 

  DBP Co-chair Sebahat Tuncel and HDP Hakkari MP Nihat Akdoğan have been sent to the Silivri Prison in Istanbul.
• ‘Wrath of the Euphrates Operation Room’ fighters advance 14 km to Raqqa 

  ‘Wrath of the Euphrates Operation Room’ announced that their fighters have advanced 14 km to Raqqa and 43 ISIS members were killed during clashes.
• 5 more villages cleansed of ISIS groups 

  5 more villages to the southeast of Ayn Îsa have been liberated from ISIS gangs.
• ILPS Philippines: We are one with the struggle of the Kurds 

  The Philippines Chapter of the ILPS expressed solidarity with the HDP, saying :"We are one with the struggles of the Kurds in Turkey, Syria, Iraq and every place where they are fighting for freedom and against terrorism."
• Two villages and two hamlets liberated in Raqqa 

  As part of the Operation Wrath Of Euphrates which continues in its 4th day, fighters have liberated two more villages and two hamlets from ISIS groups.
• Kurds rise up across the world 

  People of Kurdistan and their allies rose up across the world to protest the AKP government’s political genocide operations against Kurdish people and the HDP.
• Police attack on women's protest for HDP parliamentarians 

  Police attacked the women’s organizations led by HDP-HDK Women’s Assemblies protesting the unlawful arrest of HDP parliamentarians.
• 7 HDP members arrested in Aydın 

  7 of the 38 HDP members that had been detained when they were protesting the arrests of HDP parliamentarians in Aydın were arrested today.
• Police officer killed in Adana 

  A police officer was killed in Adana last night.
• Co-chair of HDP Yenişehir district branch detained in Mersin 

  HDP Co-chair of Mersin's Yenişehir district branch has been detained during a police raid on the party office late Sunday evening.
• DBP Co-President Sebahat Tuncel arrested 

  DBP Co-President Sebahat Tuncel, who had been detained during the police attack in front of Amed Courthouse, has been arrested.
• Messages from arrested HDP Co-Presidents and parliamentarians 

  Arrested HDP Co-Presidents and parliamentarians called upon people to enhance the resistance.
• 104 detainments in İstanbul and Bursa 

  104 people were detained during the protests in Bursa and İstanbul against the arrests of HDP Co-Presidents and parliamentarians.
• HDP suspends its activities in the parliament: We will prevail 

  The HDP Central Executive Committee held an emergency meeting in Amed and took a historic decision. HDP Spokesperson Ayhan Bilgen stated that they had suspended their activities in the parliament and that they would prevail.
• Police shoots and injures a young person in Adana 

  Police targeted protestors in 3 districts of Adana and shot and injured a young person on the street.
• HDP statement on yesterday's ISIS attack in Amed 

  The Governor of Diyarbakır blamed the PKK soon after yesterday's attack on a police target in Amed, saying that the organization claimed responsibility for the bombing, which didn't happen. Later in the evening, ISIS claimed the attack.
• Clash in Şişli where people reclaim their will 

  Masses gathered in Şişli, İstanbul today to protest the arrest of HDP Co-chairs and deputies.
• Protest in front of the Turkish Embassy in Moscow 

  A group of Kurdish and Russian demonstrators protested Turkey's arrest of HDP Co-chairs and deputies in front of the Turkish Embassy in Moscow.
• HDP Representative for Europe: EU should go beyond voicing concern 

  HDP Representative for Europe Eyüp Doru stated that the European Union should go beyond just expressing “concern” and “worry” over the happenings in Turkey.
• Thousands protest the arrest of HDP MPs in Cologne 

  Thousands of people have gathered in the German city of Cologne to protest the mass arrest of HDP deputies including Co-chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ.
• Swedish parliamentarians call for the release of arrested HDP MPs 

  Swedish Parliament Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Kenneth G. Forslund and Social Democratic Party Secretary General Lena Baastad called for the immediate release of jailed Co-chairs and deputies of the HDP.
• Many HDP members detained in Adana 

  A number of people including HDP executives have been detained in political genocide operations in the southern province of Adana.