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."
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
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.
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.
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."
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.
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.
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".
Journalist Eylem Babayiğit was detained in a house raid.
DEM Party delegation went to İmralı Island to meet with Abdullah Öcalan.
Palestinian Samah Raf'at A. Ahmad has been reunited with her baby, who was taken "hostage" by the hospital because she could not pay for his birth.
İffet Mutaş and Remziye Bayram, relatives of the disappeared, said that if there is to be a solution in Turkey, the state and the government must take the first step. As relatives of the disappeared, we want the bodies of our relatives.”
Pointed out that the right to life of civilians is violated in the attacks around Tishreen Dam, "The attacks must be stopped immediately," says Baver Mızrak, one of the executives of Amed Bar Association.
Evaluating the “solution” discussions that started after the meeting with PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan, prisoners' relatives said, “They must sit at the table and talk about the solution.”
Raphaëlle Primet, a member of the Communist Party of France, who applied to the Ministry of Justice to meet with PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan, emphasised that the talks were under pressure from the peoples and states that need the Kurds and said, "Abdullah Öcalan could be the key to Kurds finally living in peace in a region marked by conflicts."