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• Mustafa Koçak: 47 kilos and fasting for 90 days demanding justice 

  Political prisoner Mustafa Koçak has been on hunger strike for 90 days demanding a fair trial. On the 30th day of action he went on deathfast . His mother Zeynep Koçak said, "My son now is 37 kilos."
• Ex-U.N. investigator: Erdogan should be charged with war crimes 

  “An investigation should be opened into him and he should be charged with war crimes. He should not be allowed to get away with this scot free,” said a former member of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry on Syria.
• UN: Conflict must be stopped to prevent humanitarian crisis 

  Assistant Secretary-General for Humanitarian Affairs, Ursula Mueller, told the Security Council that since the beginning of military operations by Turkey in north-east Syria, “civilian’ casualties and damage to civilian infrastracture have been reported.
• Turkey’s war crimes to be submitted to concerned authorities 

  The self-administration of northern and eastern Syria said they hold the Turkish regime and its President Erdogan for the war crimes committed by his mercenaries against civilians.
• Demo against Turkish war crimes in front of OPCW 

  There is strong evidence that Turkey used chemical bombs in its incursion into northern Syria.
• UN: Nearly 180,000 people displaced in northeast Syria 

  “Nearly two weeks after the start of the hostilities, over 176,000 people have been displaced, including nearly 80,000 children, and critical civilian infrastructure has been damaged.”
• Kati Piri: Turkey must be held responsible for war crimes 

  Reactions are growing against the Turkish invasion of northern Syria and the war crimes committed in the region.
• Police attacked Saturday Mothers in Istanbul 

  Turkish police attacked Saturday Mothers in Istanbul.
• Heyva Sor confirmed 14 civilians dead and 46 wounded 

  Heyva Sor a Kurd disclosed the names of those killed and wounded in the Jazira region during the attack by the occupying Turkish state in Northern and Eastern Syria.
• UN'S Colville: Turkey has killed 7 civilians 

  The spokesperson for the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights said military operations must be conducted in accordance with international humanitarian law, in particular the principles of distinction, proportionality and precaution.
• NGOs, politicians, academics called on UN to act quickly 

  International non-governmental organizations, politicians and academics called on the UN to take action against the invasion attacks on Northern and Eastern Syria warning that "the Turkish state could carry out an ethnic cleansing".
• Ill prisoner Gülcan died  

  59-year-old prisoner Kinyas Gülcan, who was in Patnos L Type Prison, lost his life after been taken to Yüzüncü Yıl University Dursun Odabaşı Hospital 6 days ago.
• 14th appeal by lawyers to meet with Öcalan 

  Abdullah Öcalan's lawyers have applied to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office for the 14th time to meet with their client.
• 1,436 people taken into custody in Ankara in 9 months, report 

  The Ankara Bar Association Human Rights Center, the Ankara Medical Chamber, the Human Rights Association Istanbul Branch and the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey prepared a report on rights violations.
• IHD: AKP uses anti-terror legislation to arrest everyone 

  Following the detention of co-chair of the IHD branch in Dersim, Gürbüz Solmaz, the Human Rights Association said: "The government is using anti-terror legislation to have each and every one arrested."
• Greece set to send 10,000 refugees back to Turkey 

  The government said that Athens wants to return 10,000 migrants to Turkey by the end of 2020.
• Petition for Kurdish singer and her daughter jailed in Turkey 

  Kurdish singer Hozan Cane has been imprisoned in Turkey for more than a year. Her daughter Gönül Dilan Örs was also jailed. A petition asks the federal government to act more decisively for the release of the two women from Cologne.
• Human Rights Association: Release ill prisoner Fesih Coşkun 

  In the "F"sit-in organised by the Human Rights Association the health situation of prisoner Fesih Coşkun, who has been held captive for 28 years, was highlighted.
• Saturday Mothers remember disappeared student 

  The Saturday Mothers in Istanbul asked about the fate of high school student Hüseyin Morsümbül, who disappeared after his arrest in Bingöl in 1980.
• Irish President defends rights of migrants 

  Speaking in New York ahead of his address to the UN General Assembly, Irish President Michael D Higgins defended the rights of migrants and their contribution to society.
• Prisoners in Bolu denounced ill treatment and torture 

  Prisoners in Bolu F-Type Prison stated that Nurullah Semo had been kept in a room for two years and tortured.
• 23 prisoners are seriously ill, said IHD 

  Human Rights Association Ankara president Nuray Çevirmen said that in Turkey there is a huge problem with prisons.
• Justice system and Human Rights in Turkey discussed at UN 

  Justice system and Human Rights in Turkey discussed at the UN Human Rights Council.
• Lawyers of Demirtaş submit defense at ECHR Grand Chamber 

  The hearing concerning HDP’s Selahattin Demirtaş has taken place at the Grand Chamber of European Court of Human Rights (ECHR).
• Rights violations in Turkey underlined at UN Session in Geneva 

  The 42nd Session of the UN Human Rights Council is under way in Geneva. MRAP (Mouvement contre le Racisme et pour l’Amitié entre les Peuples) and the African Agency for Integrated Development (AAID) drew attention to the situation in Turkey.