HUMAN RIGHTS

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• Mother continues protest in front of Denizli T Type Closed Prison for her seriously ill son 

  Songül İlker is continuing her protest in front of Denizli T Type Closed Prison demanding that her seriously ill son be treated.
• Saturday Mothers: Bans aim to silence the people 

  On the fourth anniversary of the ban imposed on the Saturday Mothers from gathering in Galatasaray Square, the Human Rights Association (IHD) and the Saturday Mothers released a joint statement on the repression.
• Makbule Özer referred to Istanbul Forensic Medicine  

  Makbule Özer is 80-years-old. She is seriously ill but she remains in prison in Van High Security jail. The woman was referred to the Istanbul Forensic Medicine Institute (ATK).
• 11 more prisoners join hunger strike in Urfa 

  11 more prisoners joined the hunger strike against repression and torture in Urfa No. 1 T Type Prison. There are now 30 prisoners fasting.
• Ekim Polat has been on hunger strike for 24 days and cannot stand, says his mother 

  Songül Ilker visited her son Ekim Polat, who is seriously ill and on hunger strike, and said that his health condition was deteriorating and that he could not stand.
• Guards torture prisoner in Sincan jail for moving his bunk bed 

  Hakan Tunç, a prisoner in Sincan Prison, was tortured by the guards because he moved his bunk bed.
• There is no age for a Kurdish person in this system, you can be sent to jail at 7 or at 70 

  Drawing attention to the health of his 80-year-old mother and his 79-year-old father, who are in prison, Medeni Özer said: “There is no age for a Kurdish person in the system, you can be sent to jail at 7 or at 70."
• Political prisoners held in same cell wing with ISIS jihadists in Adana 

  Political prisoners held in the high-security Adana-Kürkçüler prison are being held in the same cell wing as ISIS jihadists. Relatives are worried, especially in view of the prisoners' hunger strike against the isolation on Imrali.
• IHD: Deaths in prison are preventable. Failure to prevent them is a crime against humanity 

  Nuray Çevirmen from the IHD underlined that deaths in prisons are preventable and that failure to prevent them is a crime against humanity.
• KCDK-E: Sweden wants to sacrifice Kurds to Turkey 

  In the run-up to Erdogan's visit to Stockholm, Kurdish activist Zinar Bozkurt was taken into custody in Sweden. If extradited to Turkey, he faces torture and a long prison sentence.
• Seriously ill prisoner Bazo Yılmaz dies in Urfa T-type prison 

  Seriously ill prisoner Bazo Yılmaz died in Urfa T-type prison. The 67-year-old was seriously ill with COPD due to the prison conditions and was not released despite the many applications.
• Tekirdağ City Hospital Health Board says hunger striker Gökhan Yıldırım should return in prison 

  Tekirdağ City Hospital Health Board said that prisoner Gökhan Yıldırım, who has been on death fast for 237 days demanding a "fair trial" should be taken to prison.
• HRW on Turkey’s threatened military incursion: Civilians at risk in northern Syria 

  Key concerns include unlawful attacks, worsening humanitarian conditions, ISIS resurgence.
• SDF: Seven Turkish soldiers neutralized in our legitimate response operations 

  Seven Turkish soldiers were killed, and at least three others were injured as a result of the three successful operations by the SDF, which vowed to continue the retaliation operations against the repeated aggressions of the Turkish occupying army.
• Hunger strikers in Urfa prison say they will continue their protest until demands are met 

  The hunger strike carried out by the prisoners in Urfa No. 1 T Type Closed Prison continues. The families said: "They are determined until they get results," while the prisoners called for sensitivity to all democratic people.
• Justice Vigil by relatives of ill prisoners in Izmir and Denizli leaves 100 days behind  

  The Justice Vigil organised by the relatives of ill prisoners in İzmir and Denizli has been carried out for 100 days.
• PKK and PAJK prisoners call for mass resistance 

  The committee of PKK and PAJK prisoners calls for mass protest and resistance in view of the accumulation of deaths, torture and abuses in prisons.
• Urfa Bar Association attends justice vigil of Şenyaşar family 

  Urfa Bar Association’s Head Mehmet Velat İzol and members of the association’s board of directors attended Şenyaşar family's justice vigil.
• Ten more prisoners join hunger strike in Urfa No. 1 T Type Closed Prison  

  Ten more prisoners joined the hunger strike launched in Urfa No. 1 T Type Closed Prison on 8 August against the violations of their rights.
• Mother stages sit-in for son on hunger strike in prison 

  Songül İlker has been staging a sit-in in front of the Denizli T Type Closed Prison for three days, demanding treatment for her son who is sick and on the 15th day of a hunger strike.
• Political prisoner dies ten days before release 

  Another seriously ill prisoner has died in Turkey. According to the prison management, Ibrahim Yildirim suffered a heart attack in the high-security prison Elazığ. He would have been released from prison in ten days.
• Writer Ayşe Düzkan: Aysel Tuğluk and other ill prisoners are actually sentenced to death  

  Writer Ayşe Düzkan said that Aysel Tuğluk and the ill prisoners are actually sentenced to death as they are punished outside the law.
• Mother of prisoner Polat holds sit-in in front of Denizli Prison demanding for her son to be treated 

  The mother of Ekim Polat, a seriously ill prisoner held in Denizli T Type Closed Prison, has been holding a sit-in in front of the prison for two days demanding for her son to be treated.
• Constitutional Court rejects request to release Kurdish politician Aysel Tuğluk 

  The Constitutional Court rejected the request to release Kurdish politician Aysel Tuğluk, who suffers from dementia, and to impose an injunction.
• ÖHD publishes report on the vigil of the Şenyaşar family 

  The Association of Lawyers for Freedom (ÖHD) in Urfa has presented a report on the 522-day vigil of the Şenyaşar family and called on the Parliamentary Human Rights Commission to do its job.