Commemorating İbrahim Kaypakkaya, Hakki Karer and the Fours, the HDP Central Executive Committee made a statement saying: "The soul of İbrahim, Hakki Karer, the Four, calls us to raise the struggle and believe in the revolution."
The Diyarbakır '78s Initiative commemorated revolutionaries Ferhat Kurtay, Eşref Anyık, Mahmut Zengin and Necmi Öner, who set their bodies on fire against torture in Diyarbakir No. 5 Prison on 18 May 1982.
An investigation was launched against HDP PM Member Hatice Büşra Kuyun, who was abducted and threatened, on grounds of the statement she made afterwards.
Journalist Hakan Gülseven and Taylan Kulaçoğlu, who was targeted by the mainstream media, have been detained. Kulaçoğlu is expected to be referred to courthouse today.
The co-mayor of the Altınova town, in Korkut district of Muş, was removed from office and taken into custody after the AKP-MHP government seized the HDP-run municipality through the appointment of a trustee on May 15.
According to official figures, 4,140 people have died of Covid-19 in Turkey where 149,435 cases have been recorded in total.
Revolutionary 78s Federation has declared a memorial statement for the anniversary of revolutionary leader İbrahim Kaypakkaya.
Human Rights Association in İzmir will share three stories of the people who got lost under custody on a daily basis within the context of "The week of the losses".
Reminding that the coronavirus threat is far from being eliminated, DTK Co-Chair Leyla Güven raised a call for the citizens to stay home during the Ramadan Bairam or known as the Ramadan Festival, which is celebrated as the end of the fasting that lasted for the whole month of Ramadan)
Health and Safet Labour-March reported that at least 128 workers lost their lives due to coronavirus pandemic between March 11 and May 10, pointing out to the fact that workers continue to work under unhealthy working conditions with no protection.
In the report announced regarding the conditions in the prisons of Van, it was stated that many applications such as the protective materials are being sold to the prisons and the prices for these materials are overcharged, increase the life-threatening risks.
HDP Mersin MP Fatma Kurtulan states her opinions regarding how the ruling party AKP turned the coronavirus crisis into an opporunity: "As the whole world tries to find the ways to cope with the pandemic, the government seeks to oppress the Kurdish and HDP".
A worker was tested positive for COVID-19, who was working in a construction site in Levent, İstanbul. Despite the fact that one of the workers was actually diagnoised with coronavirus, the friends working in the same site told that the company did not stop the work in the site and did nothing for the infected worker.
Human rights defenders stated that the government has turned the pandemic into a tool for revenge and called for sensitivity and solidarity for the political prisoners to be released.
"Turkey needs to confront the concepts of 'terror' and 'terrorism'", said Prof. Dr. Necla Kurul as she also states "The continuing oppression against Kurdish political subjects results in such a way in the West that people in the West becomes desperate whose dreams and new life desires are prohibited."