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She wants freedom for her mentally disabled son

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08:39 24/1

Hacı Elçi was arrested 8 years ago and sentenced to life imprisonment despite his mental disability report. "He cannot meet his needs. Is this a right?" reacts mother Belkıs Elçi.

UN Rapporteur: Pakshan Azizi's sentence epitomize situation of Kurdish minority in Iran

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08:38 24/1

UN Special Rapporteur on Minority Issues Nicolas Levrat stated that Azizi was given this sentence because she is a member of the Kurdish minority. "This is epitomize the situation of the Kurdish minority in Iran"

HDK: Let's build our own spaces of freedom

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16:14 23/1

Stating that one of the reasons why the processes for the solution of the Kurdish issue have failed is the distant stance of the opposition, HDK General Assembly member Cengiz Çiçek called on the opposition to "build our own spaces of freedom and peace".

DEM Party İmralı Delegation: This process will make all of us live together and free

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15:05 23/1

The DEM Party İmralı Delegation met with Abdullah Öcalan for the second time. “This process will make all of us live together and freely. We expect the valuable contributions of all social segments in the hope that this will be realized,” said the delegation.

Prisoner's condition deteriorates after guards broke his ribs and teeth

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13:30 23/1

Ahmet Kaya, a prisoner whose ribs and teeth were broken in a guard attack, is in a deteriorating condition due to the lack of treatment after the attack, and his jaw bones have started to melt.

'AKP must align its language and practice with the process'

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13:19 23/1

Calling on everyone to take responsibility for the solution of the Kurdish issue, the members of the Peace Mothers' Assembly of Êlih emphasised that the language and practice of the AKP government must also change in line with the process.

Lawyers applies to meet with Abdullah Öcalan

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12:41 23/1

Lawyers from the Asrın Law Office have made a new application for a meeting with their client Abdullah Öcalan.

Professional organizations of journalists: This is a climate of fear

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12:35 23/1

Evaluating the murder of 2 journalists, the arrest of 13 of them and the initiation of investigations against 4 of them in the last month, representatives of journalists' professional organizations drew attention to the increasing pressure of the government and said, "This is a climate of fear."

'Rights violations are not independent from the isolation in İmralı'

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11:19 23/1

Pointing to the serious violations of rights in prisons, "It would be a correct determination to associate the rights violations in Turkey with İmralı," says Ayşe Şehriban Demirel, spokesperson of the ÖHD Prisons Commission

International conventions the law of war are ignored in Tishreen says Journalist Cihan

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10:26 23/1

Stating that Turkey and the SNA continue to attack the Tishreen Dam, "Despite all the attacks of Turkey, the people do not step back. International conventions and the law of war are ignored in the region," says Journalist Doğan Cihan.

Isolation must be lifted, negotiations must be opened says İHD member Güldane Kılıç

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09:49 23/1

Chair of IHD Qers Branch Güldane Kılıç emphasised that the first step for the solution of the Kurdish issue must be the complete lifting of the isolation and the opening of negotiations.

Syrian Foreign Minister Sheibani calls on Kurds

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13:53 22/1

Esaad Hasan Sheibani the Foreign Minister of the interim administration in Syria, said in Kurdish: "Kurds add beauty and light to the diversity of the Syrian people."

144 violations detected in İmralı

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13:43 22/1

IHD Istanbul Branch announced its 3-month report on the prisons in the Marmara Region and found 1,572 violations in these prisons and 144 violations in İmralı Prison.

Young man run over by an armoured vehicle: I was beaten, the doctor did not examine me

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12:33 22/1

Furkan Özen, who was subjected to police violence in Akdeniz district of Mersin, stated that the armoured vehicle reversed and crushed him and that the doctor did not examine him at the hospital despite being beaten.

Letter he wrote about violations considered as 'disrupt the unity and territorial integrity of the state'

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11:49 22/1

The letter of Ferhat Önkol, held in Konya Ereğli High Security Prison, in which he wrote about the violations he experienced in prison was interpreted as "disrupt the unity and territorial integrity of the state".