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• Shengal Diaspora Assembly ends the hunger strike in Strasbourg 

  Shengal Diaspora Assembly has ended the indefinite-irreversible hunger strike they have led in Strasbourg for 21 days upon the meeting with Öcalan.
• HDP MP Önder: The state should do its duty on Öcalan's message 

  HDP İmralı Delegation Spokesperson pointed to the importance of Öcalan’s message and said: “The timeline he gives for the solution and the fundamental principal approach should shake everybody in Turkey up, and bring them to their senses.”
• Öcalan: The issue will be resolved in 6 months if the state wants-UPDATE 

  Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan said: “It wasn’t us who ended the solution process. We have our projects ready, if the state was sincere, the issue would be resolved.”
• Öcalan: Isolation continues, I don’t have any problems in physical sense 

  Mehmet Öcalan said Abdullah Öcalan as saying: “If the state is ready, they will send two of their men here, this is a serious problem, our projects are ready, we can solve the issue in six months.”
• Hunger strikers in Strasbourg write a letter to Öcalan 

  Shengal Diaspora Assembly’s hunger strike for Öcalan and Shengal continues on its 21st day.
• Meeting with Öcalan on İmralı Island 

  Mehmet Öcalan, the brother of Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan, returned from İmralı Island.
• TJK-E’s CPT petition campaign gains momentum 

  The petition campaign TJK-E launched on Friday, demanding the immediate establishment of communication with Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan, Turkey’s implementation of the ECPHRFF and respect for the rights of prisoners, gains momentum.
• Hunger strike Organizing Committee calls on Kurds to flock to Strasbourg 

  The Organizing Committee of the hunger strike in Strasbourg and KCDK-E has called on Kurds to flock to the scene of the demonstration in response to the police attack.
• Police attack the hunger strike for Öcalan and Shengal in Strasbourg 

  French police have attacked the hunger strike of the Shengal Diaspora Assembly in Strasbourg city.
• KCDK-E announces demonstrations timeline for Öcalan across Europe 

  KCDK-E called for an increased resistance against Öcalan's isolation and announced demonstrations for Öcalan’s freedom to be held in several countries.
• Journalist Ahmet Altan and his brother detained in Istanbul 

  Journalist -writer Ahmet Altan and his brother Prof. Dr. Mehmet Altan have been detained in Istanbul this morning.
• Over 40 teachers detained in police crackdown in Amed 

  Police staged a crackdown on teachers protesting in Amed against the suspension of thousands of teachers for alleged links to the PKK by an instruction from Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım.
• Police detain lawyers protesting the detention of their colleagues 

  Police attacked and detained the lawyers protesting in İzmir the detention of lawyers in Antalya.
• HDP deputy co-chair detained in Ankara 

  HDP deputy co-chair Alp Altınörs was detained following a raid on his house in Turkish capital Ankara
• Health of hunger strikers in Strasbourg deteriorating 

  Health of the 5 participants of the indefinite-irreversible hunger strike for Öcalan and Shengal in Strasbourg, is deteriorating.
• HDP: We don't recognize trustees, people will defend their rights 

  HDP's Meral Danış Beştaş stressed that the co-mayors, council members of the targeted municipalities and the people will not recognize the trustees appointed by the government.
• AKP appoints trustees to Amed's Sur and Silvan municipalities 

  Trustees have been appointed to the DBP-held municipalities of Amed's Silvan and Sur districts in the wake of Turkish Prime Minister and Interior Minister's remarks targeting the DBP municipalities in the Kurdish region.
• Photographs from AKP atrocities exhibited in the EP 

  Photographs from Turkish state’s atrocities in Northern Kurdistan are being exhibited in the EP. The exhibition organised by HDP Europe Representation Office can be visited for a week.
• Turkish PM orders further massacres along the borders 

  Turkish Prime Minister Binali Yıldırım addressed the governors of 81 provinces, saying: “Every crossing from outside the border gates is an enemy crossing that will be retaliated immediately.”
• PKK and PAJK prisoners to go on indefinite hunger strike for Öcalan 

  PKK and PAJK prisoners in Turkish jails will go on an indefinite-irreversible hunger strike, to begin with 35 inmates in 7 prisons on September 15.
• CPT delegation did not visit İmralı during Turkey visit 

  The CPT delegation in Turkey for one week has left without visiting the İmralı Prison.
• Conference in the EP: Kurds’ demand for status must be discussed now 

  Severe rights violations in Turkey and Kurdistan were discussed in the European Parliament. İHD Chairperson Öztürk Türkdoğan spoke in the conference and said the right to co-determination for a people of 40 million population must be discussed now.
• 'Syrian National Resistance' Coalition founded against Turkish invasion 

  'Syrian National Resistance' Coalition comprised of Syrian patriots and forces has been declared in a press conference held in Efrîn’s Til Rifet town with the attendance of press workers and Syrian National Resistance Political Bureau members.
• HDP MP Uca and MSF delegation visit Êzidî hunger strikers in Strasbourg 

  The indefinite-irreversible hunger strike in Strasbourg, demanding that the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan be lifted and status of Shengal be recognized, continues in its 15th day.
• 'Resistance to become popular movement if Öcalan is not accessed' 

  DTK co-chair Hatip Dicle, HDP co-chairs Figen Yüksekdağ and Selahattin Demirtaş, HDK co-spokespersons Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit and Ertuğrul Kürkçü and HDP deputies have paid a visit to the hunger strikers in Amed today.