Childhood friends told stories about PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan on his 72nd birthday. While Mehmet Reşit Öcalan said: "He did everything for the Kurdish people," Fadile Yagıbasan said, " His only wish is for everyone to be equal. What's wrong with that?"
Member of the People's Democratic Party (HDP), Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, who was battered while he was taken into custody, had angiography. Gergerlioğlu's son stated that his father would stay in intensive care today.
The hunger strike prisoners started against the isolation on PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan continues on day 128. The hunger strike action in Maxmur is on day 107 while it is day 90 in Greece.
Only the nephew of the AKP District President was found successful at the interview of carried out by the trustee appointed to Derik Municipality and got the job.
Eight people were detained with raids on their homes in Adana.
Women's organizations emphasized that the “Emergency Action Plan” is a dire need and said: "A grand rally is essential. We need to organize the anger of the women. A grand women's strike might be a start."
While the first phase of the "Humanitarian and Security Operation" launched in Hol Camp was completed, it was announced that 125 ISIS members were captured in the operation.
Lawyers, who made a defense in the case of 4 journalists, who were arrested after reporting the throwing of two citizens off of military helicopters, criticized the prosecutor's indictment stating "there are no magazine and sports news", by saying "Maybe the prosecutor is expecting them to shoot a penguin documentary, but there are no penguins in Van."
Politicians whose detention review was held today said that this case will remain as a stain in Turkey's history and asked the court to end this disgrace.
4 journalist who were being tried on charges of "membership to a terrorist organization" for publishing news of two citizens who got thrown off of helicopters got released at the first hearimng held today.
Journalist Nazan Sala, who was on trial with 4 colleagues for releasing to the public the torture of two villagers, responded to the court judge, who wanted to intervene in her defense by saying, "If the press is not free in a country, nobody can be free, you will not be eıther."
Making her defense statement, Journalist Şehriban Abi asked if being a journalist is a crime while Cemil Uğur said: "I am imprisoned for exposing the torture. This is not a crime."
The detention review of 28 politicians, who were imprisoned within the scope of the Kobanê Case, started, in which 108 people, including former HDP Co-Chairs Figen Yüksekdağ and Selahattin Demirtaş were prosecuted.
Öcalan's siblings Mehmet and Fatma Öcalan who shared their memories on the occasion of the 72nd birthday of Abdullah Öcalan, said that April 4, which has been celebrated in a festival atmosphere since 2004, is the holiday of the people.
While the doors of the court room was closed to the people at the first hearing of the case against 5 journalist, 4 of whom are currently behind bars, tension increased between the attorneys of the journalists and the court board. Adnan Bilen who was interrupted frequently by the court board said: "This is the trial of all dissident journalists."