As part of the Democratic Society Meetings launched in response to Abdullah Ocalan’s “Call for Peace and Democratic Society”, the Democratic Institutions Platform will continue organizing festivals, rallies, and marches in 12 more cities across Turkey and Kurdistan.
Serdar Akay, whose 65-year-old father Latif Akay is imprisoned in Beşiri T Type Prison and unable to walk, stated that his father has been left to die and called for his urgent release to receive treatment.
İffet Mutaş, who lost her father, two brothers, nephew, son, and daughter during the conflict, said, “As someone who has witnessed the pain of 2 brothers, 2 children, a mother, father, and my nephew Mazlum Tekdağ, we want peace.”
Ali Rıza Arslan, whose son’s bones were delivered to him in a box seven years after his death during curfews, spoke about the ongoing peace process. “Those who suffer and are victims like me want peace,” he said.
Speaking at the congress of his party's Şirnex (Şırnak) Provincial Organisation, DBP Co-Chair Keskin Bayındır stated that they are closer to freedom with the process initiated by Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan and said that they can be successful by ensuring Kurdish national unity and increasing the organisation.
12 women prisoners, including DTK Co-Chair Leyla Güven, who protested against the conspiracy against Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan, have been given disciplinary penalties.
The "Common Position Conference" of the components of North and East Syria will be held on 8 August in Heseke city.
The Peoples’ Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party has proposed a solution for the election of new members to the three vacant seats in the parliamentary commission. With the accepted proposal, three new members will be elected from DEM Party, CHP and AKP.
Baloch journalist Sarfaraz Shaah, who has been reporting on rights violations against Baloch people, has been arrested.
Co-chairs Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Erzirom (Erzurum) and Mûş (Muş) said that the people conveyed their demand for the state to take steps in the Peace and Democratic Society Meetings.
The trailer for Hey Hawar, a new documentary focusing on the repeated desecration of the grave of Süleyman Aksu, an English teacher killed in the 2015 Suruç (Pirsûs) bombing, has been released. The film sheds light on the broader issue of systemic attacks on Kurdish cemeteries in Kurdistan, using Aksu’s story as a central narrative.
On the 11th anniversary of the ISIS attack, Êzidîs (Yazidis) in Shengal commemorated those who lost their lives by turning their faces to Mount Shengal.
Eleven years after the ISIS attack on Shengal, the fate of five members of the Xelef family remains unknown. Berzan and Faris Xelef, two brothers who were abducted as children and forced to hide their faith to survive, have spoken out about the horrors they endured during four years of ISIS captivity.
Ali Kahraman, a member of the Society and Legal Research Foundation (TOHAV), emphasized that Turkey is obliged to recognize the "right to hope" under the international conventions it has ratified, calling on all segments of society to push for legal reform in Parliament.
Peace Mothers demanded that the commission established in the Parliament, which is expected to start its work, should first make arrangements for the release of political prisoners, especially Abdullah Öcalan.