IHD Êlih Branch Co-chair Ahmet Şiray stated that those detained during the trustee protests were subjected to ill-treatment and that the song “Ölürüm Türkiyem” was played. Şiray said they will file a criminal complaint against the police.
The watch that was started in the municipality building after the sentence given to Dersim Co-Mayor Cevdet Konak continues on its 2nd day.
Families participating in the campaign to send money to prisoners made a call; "Everyone should join this campaign. Let's be with our children."
Violence and massacres against women are increasing in parallel with the impunity policy of the judiciary. Lawyer Suzan Karagol said that women are put in a position of being tried, especially in cases where the perpetrator is a soldier or police officer.
Activist lawyer Çiro Şiwanî, who stated that the “Personal Statute Law” that is being tried to be passed in the Iraqi Parliament poses a threat to women and children, called for “Everyone must fight against this law that destroys women and targets the values of society.”
Lawyer Yaşar Kaya emphasized that Abdullah Öcalan must benefit from the “right to hope” and that the Kurdish issue must be solved through democratic means. “If a state does not solve its internal problem, others will come and solve it,” Kaya said.
Abdullah Öcalan has been given a new 6-month ban on lawyer visits. Asrin Law Office will apply to the Constitutional Court against the decision.
Dersim Co-Mayor Cevdet Konak and Pulur mayor Mustafa Sarıgül were sentenced to 6 years and 3 months in prison.
Colemêrg Municipality Co-Mayor Mehmet Sıddık Akış, who was replaced by a trustee, was sentenced to 9 years in prison.
The resistance watch against the appointment of a trustee to the municipality in Xelfetî continues for 17th day.
Speaking in front of the Ministry of Family and Social Services, DEM Party Women's Assembly Spokesperson Halide Türkoğlu pointed out that a woman is murdered every 10 minutes and emphasized the implementation of current laws.
DEM Party Provincial Co-mayors said that they will take to the streets more strongly in Êlih, where the trustee protests have continued for days, and they will defend the people's gains until the end.
According to the Speakership of Parliament, only 22 out of 5 thousadn 216 violation applications made to the Human Rights Investigation Board regarding violations in prisons were examined on-site.
While it has been 20 years since Uğur Kaymaz was killed along witb his father, lawyer Erdal Kuzu said: "The policy of denial has lef the perpetrators unpunished."
Evaulating the claims of the government and media that "PKK is not listening to Öcalan", PKK Central Committee member Helin Ümit said: Nothing has come to the PKK. There is nothing to discuss or respond to."