Hikmet Yılmaz, elder brother of Ferhan Yılmaz, who died in Silivri Prison, stated that his brother's nostrils were stuffed up with cotton so that blood would not come, and said, "He was tortured and murdered 2 days before his release."
Stating that more than a thousand who lost thereir lives in the armed clashes with the state are being buried in the 'cemetery of the nameless', MEBYA-DER Co-chair Şeyhmus Karadağ said the applications made by the families were ignored.
An investigation has been launched against a young man named Uğur Acar with 65 percent disability, who was battered by the police for selling tea and put into intensive care unit for 3 days, on the grounds of "resisting the police".
Two prisoners who were driven to suicide in Silivri were transferred to İzmir by ambulance. Ercan Morkoç, who called his family from Silivri, stated that the other prisoners were put in a cell and that the guards left rope and razors.
It was stated that 6 ordinary prisoners were driven to suicide as a result of torture and ill-treatment in Silivri No. 5 Type L Closed Prison. ÖHD Istanbul Branch noted that 60 guards tortured prisoners.
Asrın Law Office's objection to the disciplinary punishment given to their client, PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan, was rejected on the grounds that it was due process of law and legal. Lawyers will take the decision to the Constitutional Court.
As part of the investigation carried out by the Ankara Chief Public Prosecutor's Office, 91 people were detained in 13 cities.
The lawyers of PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and İmralı Prison Directorate to urgently meet with their client.
2 prisoners who were tortured by the guards in Silivri Prison No. 5, lost their lives.
HDP Batman MP Ayşe Acar Başaran asked how the state could not reach the Yazidi woman, whose family in Kadana was only able to rescue her in return of paying the kidnappers. The Yazidi woman was held in the house of an ISIS member for 3 years.
Stating that the opening of Newala Qesaba for construction is a crime and disrespect to the dead, law organisations and other non-governmental organisations, called for it to be transformed into a place of social memory.
Police raided HDP Cizre District Organisation building early this morning and detained many party members.
A police officer in Şırnak pursued a lawyer, hit him with his car and fled the scene. The lawyer, who is seriously injured, was rushed into surgery.
Kurdish PEN member Nezir Çakan, who was jailed pending trial in the Kobanê Case, has been released.
Evaluating Turkey's Turkification policies in Afrin, Head of the Immigrant Affairs Department of Northern and Eastern Syria Autonomous Administration Şêxmûs Ehmed said, "Turkey's aim is to change the demographic structure of the region."