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• 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.
• KONGRA GEL calls for solidarity with the hunger strike in Amed 

  KONGRA GEL has called upon the Kurdish people to show solidarity with the hunger strike launched in Amed yesterday with demand of immediate access to Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Brett McGurk visits SDF and YPG officials in Kobanê 

  Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL Brett McGurk visited officials in Kobanê town of Rojava, West Kurdistan, yesterday.
• One Turkish soldier killed as YPG retaliates against Turkish army attack 

  Turkish soldiers sprayed bullets on an YPG-held outpost in Rojava, to which YPG forces responded, leaving one soldier dead.
• TAK claims the action against gendarme in Antalya's Kemer district 

  TAK has claimed responsibility for the action against a gendarme minibus in Kemer district of the southern Antalya province on August 24.
• Hunger strike for Öcalan and Shengal in Strasbourg in its 14th day 

  The indefinite-irreversible hunger strike in Strasbourg, demanding the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan be lifted and status of Shengal be recognized, continues in its 14th day.
• Sinn Fein Spokesperson calls for immediate access to Öcalan 

  Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has backed calls for a family member, lawyer, or political delegation, to be granted immediate access to visit Abdullah Öcalan in prison.
• KESK, DİSK and ABF call for urgent access to Öcalan 

  On the first day of the historic hunger strike, KESK, DİSK and ABF called upon the AKP to end the isolation of Öcalan.
• Moslem: ISIS lost and so will Turkey 

  PYD Co-President Saleh Moslem spoke during the 24th International Kurdish Culture Festival and said that Kurds were writing history in the Middle East and Turkey would soon lose as ISIS did recently.
• Support grows for the hunger strikers from Shengal Diaspora Assembly 

  Many groups continue to visit and support the Shengal Diaspora Assembly administrators who entered the 13th day of their hunger strike and demand immediate communication with Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• 24th International Kurdish Cultural Festival kicks off in Cologne 

  24th International Kurdish Cultural Festival has kicked off in the German city of Cologne with the participation of thousands.
• Worldwide urgent appeal against Turkish occupation in Rojava 

  Intellectuals, writers, artists, politicians and human rights defenders started a petition seeking to draw urgent attention to the Turkish state’s invasion in Northern Syria and Rojava.
• German police block the Long March for Öcalan's freedom 

  German police teams have obstructed the participants of the Long March demanding freedom for Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan ahead of the 24th Kurdish Culture Festival.