Application to visit Öcalan rejected
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- 17:01 16/2/2021
The application of PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan's lawyers to meet with their clients was rejected.
The application of PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan's lawyers to meet with their clients was rejected.
The first hearing of the case filed against 5 journalists, 4 of whom are currently behind bars for breaking the story about two villagers thrown from a military helicopter will be held in Van on April 2.
HDP MP Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, against whom an investigation was started on grounds that he criticized the TSK operation against Garé, underlined that he was recieving threats and said: "We are trying to defend everyone's rights regardless of who they are."
Political prisoners in Düzce Type T Closed Prison stated that they were subjected to raids and investigations against them arbitrarily.
An indictment was prepared against 5 journalists 4 of whom are currently behind bars on the allegation of 'being a member of a terrorist organization'. The journalists who are sought to be sentenced with an indictment copy pasted from other indictments are accused of their interviews with sources and the news they wrote.
The hunger strike prioners started against the isolation on PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan continues on day 82. The hunger strike action in Maxmur is on day 61 while it is day 44 in Greece.
The Ministry of Interior announced that 718 people, including HDP members and administrators, were detained in home raids in 40 cities.
Taken into custody on February 12, Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Kars Co-Chair Sevda Subaşı has been arrested along with two other HDP executives.
Syrian Democratic Forces (QSD) stated that Turkey's operations against the Federated Kurdistan and North Syria paves the way for ISIS to gather its strength again.
The hunger strike prioners started against the isolation on PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan continues on day 79. The hunger strike action in Maxmur is on day 58 while it is day 41 in Greece.
Regarding the camp where PKK holds some Turkish soldiers as prisoners, which was hit by the TSK within the scope of the operation against Garé, Gürsel Özbey, father of Semih Özeby, one of the soldiers held captive in the camp said: "We have people over there. I want this operation to be terminated immediately. Ümit Gıcır's father Musa Gıcır said: "How can a government bomb a place where its soldiers are held?"
Scores were detained during house raids in Adana early this morning.
Beyza Buldağ, a student of Mimar Sinan University Fine Arts Department, was released.
13 people were detained in home raids against HDP members in Kocaeli.
A twenty-year-old was allegedly shot in the back by soldiers in Van. Mehmet Ali Nametoğulları reports on the army attack, in which he was heavily injured.