Yoleri: Detainees went on a hunger strike
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- 14:25 03/11/2020
İHD İstanbul Branch President Gülseren Yoleri said that those detained in the Istanbul-based operation started a hunger strike to protest the poor conditions.
İHD İstanbul Branch President Gülseren Yoleri said that those detained in the Istanbul-based operation started a hunger strike to protest the poor conditions.
Attorneys of PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office to meet with his clients.
Cancer patient Necmettin Ayan, a prisoner being held in Diyarbakır No 1 High Security Prison tested positive for Coronavirus. Ayan's family said the prisoners' wards are over crowded.
The death toll from Friday's (October 30) powerful earthquake in Turkey's Aegean region has risen to 100, the Disaster and Emergency Management Authority (AFAD) has announced.
Zehra Silêman Xelef, one of the Êzidî Women's Committee, who is conducting diplomacy work against the Shengal agreement, stated that they do not recognize neither the alliance nor the agreement and said: "We do not want those who left us face to face with death, we don't want those who betrayed and ran away."
According to the latest information recieved by AFAD, the death toll in İzmir have risen to 95.
The fact that the HDP Diyarbakır Provincial Co-Chairs that were arrested the other day attended the congress of their own party, considered to be a crime by the court. Serhat Eren, attorney of the co-chairs told that even the co-chairs coming to the courthouse for support following the HDP MPs being stripped of their MP status was considered to be a crime.
Osman Şiban who was thrown from the helicopter by the soldiers carrying out an operation in the Çatak district of Van said: "They told them from the radio that there were terrorists in the helicopter. The other side said 'get them out'. Then they first threw the bodies out of the helicopter and then they pushed us and we hit the ground."
Hakkari Governorate stated that Şerali Dereli was killed as a result of an intervention 'in accordance with the legislation' in a statement they made 5 days later, and concealed the details. The relatives of Dereli on the other hand, states that Dereli (61) was killed by the soldiers.
In the report prepared by the Independent MP Ahmet Şık about the dropping of the villagers from the helicopter, Osman Şiban explained what happened and said "They threw us from the helicopter, nearly 150 soldiers lynched us, kicked and punched us... I passed out there."
According to the data announced by TUIK, the number of people held in prisons increased by 10.1 percent on December 31, 2019 compared to the same date of 2018. The total number of people held in prison reached 291,546.
TJA Spokesperson Ayşe Gökkan who was detained withing the scope of an investigation launched in Mardin, has been detained 83 times so far, there are more than 200 investigations against her.
Some 1,120 aftershocks have hit the area since Friday and 43 of them were above magnitude 4.
Stating that the bag law proposal that will come to the General Assembly means "precarious work" for all youth, the youth said "The only way is to fight against the bag law that aims to create 'young slaves'.
A 6.9 magnitude earthquake has left several buildings demolished and at least 73 people dead in the province of İzmir, west of Turkey.