Özgür İpek, one of the workers who were attacked by police, warden and a racist group in Balıkesir, said: “It was an organized and planned attack. The only reason was that we were Kurdish.”
Zeki Binbir from ÖHD stated that the application of 1,330 lawyers to the Ministry of Justice requesting a meeting with Abdullah Öcalan has still not been responded to.
The indictment against journalist Zeynep Kuray on charges of “making illegal organization propaganda” based on her online media posts was accepted by the court. Kuray's news posts and journalistic activities were criminalized in the indictment.
31 prisoners in Şakran Women's Closed Prison were sentenced to a one-month communication and visitation ban. Hamit Bilen, the brother of Güler Bilen, one of the prisoners against whom a disciplinary investigation was launched, stated that they are worried that the upcoming release of his sister, who has been imprisoned for 32 years, will be prevented.
Calling for the World Peace Day rally to be held in Wan, politicians said: “In order to talk about peace, the isolation of PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan must end and he must be given his physical freedom.”
The Kurdish Literary Association reacted against the ongoing attacks on Kurdish culture and language and said: “The Kurdish language will echo despite all oppression.”
Zeliha Bozkurt, the mother of Abdulkadir Bozkurt, a prisoner who was subjected to torture in Tekirdağ Prison, went to Urfa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and filed a criminal complaint against the perpetrators. DEM Party Headquarters also decided to send a delegation to the prison following the torture allegations.
Lawyers from the Asrın Law Office have made a new application for a meeting with their client Abdullah Öcalan, whom they have not heard from for 42 months.
Prisoners Enes İlgen and Serdar Başaran in Bafra Type T Prison were sentenced to 11 days in solitary cell for Kurdish poems and songs in their notebooks.
Journalist Fréderike Geerdink said that without Kurdish journalists, many truths would not be heard, adding that Turkey is committing a war crime by killing journalists.
Stating that the attack in which journalists Gülistan Tara and Hêro Bahadîn were murdered is against all journalists and freedom of expression, representatives of press organizations emphasized a joint struggle.
Another 130 Yazidi families staying in KDP's Êsya Camp returned to Shengal.
DBP Co-Chair Keskin Bayındır stated that they should turn their attention to İmralı against the hostile policies of AKP-MHP and said: “Rêber Abdullah Öcalan's ideas, thoughts and views are the only solution for all oppressed peoples and the Middle East.”
The Iraqi Ministry of Migration and Immigration stated that 732 Yazidis returned to Shengal and Nineveh from the camps in Dohuk.
The family of prisoner Abdulkadir Bozkurt, who says he was beaten in prison, has filed a complaint against the guards.