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• "'Dad, get us out of here" 

  Since February, Vesile Yüksel and her daughters Arin Mirkan (4) and Avesta (6) have been jailed in a Turkish prison for "terrorist propaganda" on social media.
• Saturday Mothers meet in Istanbul for the 696th week 

  The story of Süleyman Cihan was told in Istanbul.
• Political prisoners strip-searched and threatened with death 

  Political prisoner Vedat Kaya announced through his family that the prisoners are subjected to death threats by the prison guards.
• New statement against the isolation imposed on Öcalan 

  Asrın Law Office lawyers have been denied once again the right to visit their client.
• IHD publishes report on rights violations in the Kurdish region 

  The Human Rights Association has released its six months report for 2018.
• “Isolation of Öcalan must end for peace to be established” 

  IHD Amed Chapter Chairperson Abdullah Zeytun protested the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Öcalan and said, “The isolation must end for peace to be established and clashes to end.”
• Jailed HDP MP receives visitation ban due to Kurdish song 

  HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven, held hostage in prison, was issued a one-month visitation ban because of a Kurdish song sung in her ward.
• HDP’s Buldan: Isolation of Öcalan is the root of many problems 

  The HDP co-chair insisted that isolation imposed on Öcalan should be lifted.
• Saturday Mothers demand justice for journalist Ferhat Tepe 

  The young journalist disappeared in 1993.
• Relatives of disappeared people come together for justice in Amed 

  The Human Rights Association was prevented from staging their weekly sit-in by the State of Emergency law.
• ECHR hearing on Cizre has been scheduled for 13 November 

  European Court of Human Rights hosts hearing on Cizre curfew and atrocities.
• Over 13,000 rights violations registered in Van during OHAL 

  Over 13,000 people in Van have been affected by the State of Emergency in Van province during the past two years.
• HDP congratulates the Human Rights Association on its anniversary 

  The IHD was founded 32 years ago.
• HRW: Turkey stops registering Syrian asylum seekers 

  Turkish authorities in Istanbul and nine provinces on or near the Syrian border have stopped registering all but a handful of recently arrived Syrian asylum seekers.
• Zeinab Jalaliyan calls for joint stand against executions 

  Kurdish prisoner Jalaliyan jailed in Iran wrote a letter in prison, calling to “stand against executions all together”.
• Justice for disappeared people demanded in Amed 

  The Human Rights Association and families of the disappeared held sit-in for justice in Amed.
• Saturday Mothers meet in Galatasaray for the 649th time 

  This week Hasan Gülünay was remembered: he disappeared while in police custody.
• Justice for Soma action at Abbasağa Park 

  The march of the Soma miners' families asking for justice reached Istanbul 
• Non-Turkish speaker female prisoner denied medical treatment 

  Sick prisoner Sabiha Uzun isn’t able to get the medical visits she needs because she doesn’t speak Turkish.
• 73-year-old sick prisoner to take dialysis in prison ward 

  Sick prisoner Meles Tekin has been waiting for the report from the Adana Forensic Medicine Institution for two months to be released. Tekin’s health has deteriorated and will be put on a dialysis machine in the prison ward.
• Taşdemir case taken to the European Court of Human Rights 

  The Kurdish woman activist has not seen her lawyers and family after being extradited to Turkey by Norway.
• Saturday Mothers demand justice for the disappeared in Istanbul 

  The Saturday Mothers gathered in Galatasaray for the 693rd time.
• Sick prisoner operated on without anesthesia 

  Sick prisoner Cemil Ivrendi announced that he was operated on without being given anesthetics in the Tarsus Public Hospital where he was sent by the Prison Infirmary. Ivrendi said, “They are killing us slowly.”
• IHD releases report on rights violations in Central Anatolia jails 

  Violations exposed go from poor or no medical care given to ill prisoners, harassment, beating, humiliating strip searches.
• Öcalan’s lawyers submit 769th appeal for a meeting 

  Kurdish Leader Öcalan’s lawyers have submitted their 769th appeal to meet with their client.