Operations launched on Judi Mountain over a thousand soldiers
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- 17:54 14/7/2020
With more than a thousand soldiers an air-supported operation has been launched in the rural region of Judi (Cudi) Mountain in the province of Şırnak.
With more than a thousand soldiers an air-supported operation has been launched in the rural region of Judi (Cudi) Mountain in the province of Şırnak.
Mezopotamya Woman Journalists Platform (MKGP) and Dicle Fırat Journalists Association (DFG) reacted to the detention of journalist Ayşe Güney and demanded her immediate release.
Two Kurdish political prisoners in the Urmia Central Prison were executed on Tuesday.
Hayriye Demir, a 70-year-old woman was detained in a military raid on her home in Diyarbakır.
While a trustee has been appointed in place of HDP’s detained Ağrı Diyadin Co-Mayor Betül Yaşar, HDP shared a statement declaring, "We will continue to raise a strong struggle in all areas until we end the coup of the government which appoints 'civil servants' for the places of the elected people chosen by the people's will."
Lawyer Faik Özgür who filed an appeal with a request of immediate action to the Constitutional Court of Turkey due to not being able to communicate with and hear news from the imprisoned PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan said, "the communication with Öcalan is prevented," and called for the inhuman isolation conditions in İmralı Prison to be terminated, especially demanding the ban on the communication rights of Öcalan to be lifted.
The police raided many homes in Antep, detained 33 political activists from Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and Democratic Regions Party (DBP).
During the raids in the early hours of Tuesday morning many woman activists were detained in Diyarbakır, including Free Women's Movement (TJA) Spokesperson Ayşe Gökkan.
Journalist Ayşe Güney was detained during a raid in her house.
Ezgi Güngördü, the lawyer of imprisoned politician Figen Yüksekdağ told in a press statement on Monday that Yüksekdağ is the only politician who was arrested twice on the same ground and all the appeals filed for her release have been rejected based on prefabricated grounds.
3 prisoners in Diyarbakır Type D Closed Prison are reported to have been diagnosed with COVID-19.
President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan spoke over the phone with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Drawing attention to isolation in İmralı Island, İÖP Vice-Chair Murat Bozdemir stated that Öcalan is a chance for the 21st century with his ideas, while HDP Provincial Co-Chair Ökkeş Kava called everyone who are against the law to take responsibility to end the isolation.
Turgut Kazan, the president of the İstanbul Bar Association, defined the new "Multiple Bars" law as a "Metin Feyzioğlu law" saying, "This is an attempt to eradicate the right of defense and fair trial."
Stating that the government aims to launch a new ideological structure through “Multiple Bars” law, HDP MP Abdullah Koç said, “It is a regulation they adopted to consolidate fascism."