Law Office of the Century stated that the false and manipulative statements against Abdullah Öcalan aim to undermine the efforts for solution and peace and said, "We invite everyone to put forth effort and tought to reach a democratic ground."
Hasibe Mengirkaon, who became the symbol of the struggle against the police attacks while standing guard at the border against the ISIS attacks on Kobanê in 2014, gave the message "We need the same spirit today" from the Qamishlo border.
The court reduced the sentences of 3 people, including 2 police officers, who were part of a network that looted houses during the curfews in Nisêbîn and claimed that there is "no evidence" in the acquittal verdict on the offence of looting despite the statements and radio recordings.
Political scientist Prof. Dr. Levent Köker stated that Öcalan's call should be considered in the context of building Turkish-Kurdish unity on the basis of equal citizenship. “It is possible only by replacing the old paradigm that produced the Kurdish iaaue and imprisoned it without a solution with a new one, and by building a new and democratic constitutional order instead of the undemocratic constitutional order,” he said.
In Diyarbakır Type T Prison No 1, 65-year-old judicial prisoner R.K. was beaten by wardens. The family recorded the traces of the beating during a video call.
Lawyers from the Asrın Law Office have made a new application for a meeting with their client Abdullah Öcalan.
Pointing to Abdullah Öcalan's message that different segments of society should contribute positively to the process, “The task of implementing democratic life is on all of us,” says HDK Peoples and Beliefs Assembly Member Ayhan Ergenç.
Jakob Migenda, Hesen State Director of Germany's Left Party, pointed to the ongoing discussions on the solution of the Kurdish issue, “It's a thing that we all have in our hands to put some pressure there to come to real negotiation processes once more than the others.”
"The bodies have been kept waiting for 20 days. We are leaving Habur to prevent further torture to the bodies" said the delegation that wants to take the bodies of the murdered journalists.
DEM Party Colemêrg MP Öznur Bartın has brought the issue of women prisoners in Sincan Women's Closed Prison being housed in sunless, damp and smelly wards to the Human Rights Monitoring Commission.
3 journalists who were detained yesterday in Erdîş were referred to the courthouse.
Kırıkkale Type F High Security Prison administration refused to give the winter clothes sent to ill priosoner Fikret Erden on the grounds that clothes are "colourful".
Reacting against the prevention of the delegation travelling to take the bodies of Nazım Daştan and Cihan Bilgin, "Preventing the taking the funerals is the biggest immorality " says MEBYA-DER co-chair Mehmet Emin Kılıç.
"We have a leader, the Kurds have achieved victory," says Hacı Şükrü Aslan, 94, who comes to the Qamishlo border from Kerboran district of Mêrdîn every day to participate in the vigil.
Turkey and the SNA are bombarding Tişrîn Dam and its surroundings.