In the meeting held 43 months later, “If conditions are created, I have the theoretical and practical power to move this process from the grounds of conflict and violence to the legal and political grounds” PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan said.
Stating that Berîtan chose freedom against surrender, Jiyan Dêrik from Zenubya Women's Community Assembly said: “Today women continue struggle with her spirit.”
Mehtap Işık, the lawyer of ill prisoner Abdurrahman Gemicioğlu, have stated that her client has been transferred to hospital 15 times since his arrest.
A woman was wounded in Turkey's UCAV attack on Sinjar.
PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan met with Ömer Öcalan in İmralı for the first time after 43 months.
DBP Co-Chair Keskin Bayındır, who visited the Peace Mothers, said: “The isolation must be lifted, Abdullah Öcalan must be free and the Kurdish issue must be solved through democratic means.”
Co-chair of KONGRA-GEL Remzi Kartal said that the AKP-MHP statements could be a “dangerous plan” and added: “Unless there is a direct meeting with Leader Apo and his voice is heard, unilateral statements are worthless.”
At least 4 people were detained in house raids in Tetwan district in the morning.
Prisoner İsmet Karak described the practices in Sincan High Security Prison No. 2 and said: “We are being forced to say, 'Either compromise your political identity and honor, or lose your basic human rights!”
IHD Honorary President Akın Birdal pointed out that Abdullah Öcalan is the first interlocutor in the solution of the Kurdish issue and called on the government for “sincerity and a road map”.
The curfew in the rural neighborhoods of Elfan and Barman in Stewrê district of Mêrdîn has been ended, 4 people are being held at the gendarmerie command.
Prisoners in prisons in Adana stated that they have not been able to access their right to health for years due to mouth searches and handcuffed examinations.
Stating that the developments in the Middle East are forcing every country to change, Assoc. Prof. Hakan Güneş said: “What the Kurds will do is important. Kurds are trying to expand their collective rights in a multi-actor and complex equation.”
Pointing out that the massacres of women and violence are caused by the policies of the government, the women of Eğitim-Sen said: “A struggle must be waged by uniting on a common ground.”
An investigation was launched against Şahin Sarı, the President of Adana Ağrılılar Association, on the grounds that he shared a bikini photo with a Turkish flag, with the allegation of “Publicly Contempt for the State's Signs of Sovereignty”.