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• Committee for Freedom of Öcalan calls for an end to isolation in İmralı 

  The Committee for Freedom of Öcalan has released a statement demanding freedom for the PKK leader for the success of the peace process in Turkey.
• At least 10 soldiers and one police killed in ongoing actions by guerrillas 

  While the operations of the Turkish military against guerrilla held areas continue, so do the retaliation attacks of the guerrillas affiliated to HPG. At least 10 soldiers and one police were killed in the most recent actions by guerrillas.
• Delegation of journalists in Silvan threatened by security forces 

  A delegation of journalists including Presidents of TGS (Journalists' Union of Turkey) and Basın-İş Union have been hindered and threatened by police as they attempted to enter the neighborhoods where armed clashes are taking place at the moment.
• ISIS kidnaps 19 Arab citizens from a village in Kobanê 

  ISIS gangs have kidnapped 19 Arab people from the village of Qulan to the south of Kobanê.
• Police and military forces attack neighborhoods in Yüksekova 

  Police and military forces accompanied by tanks launched an attack on Orman, Yeşildere, Mezarlık and Dize neighborhoods in Yüksekova district of Hakkari Monday afternoon.
• Curfew and operation in Silvan 

  Special operation police teams have started an operation against the Tekel, Mescit, Selahattin and Konak neighborhoods under the control of self-defense units in Silvan district of Amed Monday afternoon.
• Three Kurdish politicians detained in Nusaybin 

  Police forces conducted yet another house-raid operation in Nusaybin district of Mardin early this morning.
• Four neighborhoods in Silvan blockaded by police 

  Special operation police teams have once again blockaded four neighborhoods in Amed's Silvan district which remain under the control of self-defense units against the never-ending attacks and repression by security forces of the Turkish state.
• Varto City Council Co-President remanded in custody 

  Co-President of the City Council in Varto district of Muş has been remanded in custody following the recent declaration of self-governance in the district against the never-ending attacks and repression by the Turkish state and its security forces.
• The other co-mayor of Edremit Municipality also detained 

  Political operations against the Kurdish people are going on, now targeting co-mayors of DBP-held municipalities after the recent declarations of self-governance.
• Jailed co-mayors in Amed sent to prisons in Ankara and Kırıkkale 

  Co-mayors of Amed's DBP-held Silvan and Sur district municipalities, who were remanded in custody yesterday, have been exiled to Ankara and Kırıkkale prisons.
• Co-mayor of Van's Edremit district municipality detained 

  Co-mayor of Van's DBP-held Edremit district municipality has been taken into custody Monday morning.
• HPG: At least 44 soldiers killed in actions by guerrillas 

  HPG (People's Defense Forces) guerrillas conducted effective actions in a number of places including Heftanin, Şırnak, Hakkari, Amed and Van, in which at least 44 soldiers of the Turkish army were killed and many military vehicles were destroyed.
• Co-mayors of Hakkari remanded in custody 

  Co-mayors of DBP-held Hakkari Municipality have been remanded in custody and sent to prison on alleged charges of “disrupting the unity and territorial integrity of the state”.
• Youth heavily wounded by police in Amed 

  Police forces attacked youths who took to the streets in Bağlar district of Amed yesterday evening to protest the total warfare concept put into effect by the interim AKP government.
• Turkish soldiers killed 9, tortured 114 at Efrîn border since last year 

  Rojava’s Efrîn Canton Human Rights Association has disclosed that 114 cases of torture were perpetrated and 9 citizens were killed by Turkish soldiers at the border between North Kurdistan and Efrîn Canton during the past one year.
• Co-mayors of Silvan and Sur formally arrested 

  Co-mayors of Amed's Silvan and Sur district municipalities have been formally arrested by a court late yesterday evening.
• HPG reports ongoing actions by guerrillas 

  Guerrillas of HPG (People's Defense Forces) and YJA Star (Free Women's Troops) continue their actions as part of the “Martyr Reşit Serdar Initiative” against the ongoing attacks by the Turkish state and its security forces.
• Bombardments and aerial activities by Turkish army continue 

  People’s Defense Forces (HPG) Press Office has reported in a statement that bombardments and the aerial activities of the Turkish military against the guerrilla held areas continue.
• HPG: 13 soldiers killed, one tank destroyed in Haftanin 

  HPG Press Office has released a statement reporting that the intensified activity of Turkish military forces at the border to Haftanin area of Medya Defense Zones continued.
• Six more detained in ongoing political genocide operations 

  Political genocide operations of the temporary AKP government, which is dragging the country into a conflict by its pro-war policies, continue across North Kurdistan and Turkey.
• HDP deputy for Hakkari: The state conducts revenge attacks on people 

  Launching an operation to enter the Orman Neighbourhood in Yüksekova district of Hakkari this morning, special operations units attacked the martyrs’ cemetery in the town.
• Turkish state destroys the Kurdistan nature by airstrikes 

  The airstrikes launched by military forces of the Turkish state against guerrilla-held Medya Defence Zones on July 24 continue.
• Self-defense units repel police attacks in Yüksekova 

  Attacks of Turkish forces against civilian settlements in North Kurdistan continue increasingly.
• Police attack civilian areas in Amed, one youth killed 

  Turkish security forces continue their attacks across North Kurdistan as part of the total warfare concept of the AKP, police have this time attacked civilian areas in Sur district of the main Kurdish city Amed.