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• Turkey protested at arms fair in London 

  Kurds and their friends protested the Defence & Security Equipment International (DSEI) 2015, the world leading land, sea and air defence and security exhibition, which kicked off at Excel London yesterday.
• 14-year-old Bünyamin İrci was killed while carrying water to the people 

  It came out that 14-year-old Bünyamin İrci was executed not after being forced into an armored vehicle, but while carrying water to the people deprived of their basic needs, including food and water, during the course of the curfew.
• Six wounded, 24 detained by police in Adana and Mersin 

  Police forces attacked the people who held demos in the southern provinces of Adana and Mersin to protest state terror in the Kurdish region. Six people were wounded in the crackdown, and 24 others were detained.
• HDP: No repression will ever restrain us from our path 

  HDP Group Deputy Chairs said AKP has kind of thrown the country in the fire in order to remain in power and also for fear of being brought to book for what it has done in the face of its failure since after the elections.
• 15 ESP members remanded in custody in Istanbul 

  17 members of ESP (Socialist Party of the Oppressed) who were detained in Istanbul on Tuesday, were remanded in custody on alleged charges of “opposing the law on meetings and demonstrations”.
• Massacre attempt by police in Mersin 

  Police forces opened random fire on the streets in Akdeniz district of Mersin. Many houses and shops were hit by bullets, while no one has fortuitously been shot in the fire.
• 305 racist attacks targeted HDP across Turkey in two days 

  As many as 305 racist attacks were conducted against offices of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) on September 7-8 across Turkey by nationalist and racist forces supported by the AKP.
• Racist attacks on HDP offices and Kurds across Turkish cities 

  Large numbers of racist groups have started a Kurd-hunt in a number of Turkish cities, in which some 126 offices of the HDP (Peoples' Democratic Party) were attacked across the country since yesterday.
• HDP offices targeted by racist attacks 

  Racist attacks have targeted offices of Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in some cities of Turkey since last night.
• Sit in action outside EP to demand freedom for Öcalan 

  'Freedom for Öcalan Initiative' is preparing to hold a sit-in action outside the European Parliament in Strasbourg on September 8-9 in protest at the isolation of the Kurdish Leader in Imralı Island.
• SGDF Co-President detained 

  Federation of Socialist Youth Associations (SGDF) Co-President Oğuz Yüzgeç has been taken into custody on Burgaz Island in Istanbul at 05:00 this morning.
• Kurdish youths continue the march for Öcalan’s freedom 

  The march by Kurdish youths living in Europe to condemn the ongoing isolation of Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan and massacre of civilians in Northern Kurdistan continues in its third day.
• HDP submits bill offering 'Negotiation for Building of Social Peace' 

  HDP Group Deputy Chairs Pervin Buldan and İdris Baluken have submitted to parliament a draft law offering 'Negotiation for Building of Social Peace'.
• Thousands demanded peace across Turkey and North Kurdistan 

  Thousands took to the streets in many districts and cities across North Kurdistan and Turkey to mark the International Peace Day demanding peace and the restart of negotiations for a democratic resolution.
• Turkish fascists attack Kurdish youths joining long march in Germany 

  A group of Turkish fascists attacked the Kurdish youths staging a long march in Germany between Wuppertal and Düsseldorf.
• NAV-DEM calls for participation in Kurdish Festival against fascism 

  23rd International Kurdish Culture Festival will take place in Düsseldorf on September 5th under the main slogan “Let's Build Democratic Nation with Free Leader- We Will Not Allow Fascism”.
• Demirtaş: HDP represents peace, AKP represents war 

  HDP Co-President Selahattin Demirtaş expressed his concerns over snap election in Turkey, and stressed the need for a third party for the peace process.
• Kurdish youths march in Germany for freedom of Öcalan 

  Kurdish youths living in Europe have today started a 56 km long march in the German city of Wuppertal to condemn the ongoing isolation of Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan and massacre of civilians in Northern Kurdistan.
• SOHR: 3,156 people executed by ISIS since June 2014 

  The Islamic State jihadist group, or ISIS, has executed 91 people between July 29 and this Saturday in various Syrian provinces, the Syrian Human Rights Observatory said.
• German court sentences Kurdish politician to three years in prison 

  Hamburg Supreme Court has sentenced Kurdish politician Mehmet Demir to three years in prison on charges of “membership to PKK” (Kurdistan Workers' Party).
• 78 civilians died, 298 jailed since after June 7 elections 

  HDP Law and Human Rights Commission announced that 78 people have lost their lives since after June 7 elections, during which 1,628 people were taken into custody and among them 298 were jailed.
• HDP calls upon AKP to end war and turn back to negotiations 

  HDP pointed out that the AKP's war policy targeted civilians and called on the AKP to start dialogue and negotiations and abandon the 'war to the end' perspective that has caused great pains and prices in the Kurdish region of Turkey.
• HDP-DBP delegation meets Austrian President in Vienna 

  HDP Co-President Selahattin Demirtaş, DBP Co-President Kamuran Yüksek, Deputy Co-President Nazmi Gür, HDP Representative for Europe Eyüp Doru and Austrian Green Party MP Berivan Aslan met Austrian President Heinz Fischer yesterday.
• More arrested in ongoing political genocide operations 

  Political genocide operations aiming an elimination of the Kurds continue increasingly after the recent initiation and imposition of war policies by the AKP in the Kurdish region of Turkey.
• Demirtaş urges AKP to abandon policies dragging Turkey into disaster 

  HDP Co-President urged the government to immediately abandon these insane policies that dragged the country into a disaster, stressing that it was, on top of that, an unauthorized government that brought the country to the edge of war.