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• Istanbul Bar Association: The will of the voters is eliminated through the appointment of trustees 

  Denouncing the seizure of Hakkari Municipality, the Istanbul Bar Association said, “The will of the voters is being eliminated through the constant appointment of trustees. We stand for the right to elect and be elected and our democracy.”
• Protest in Bologna for Turkey-Italy friendship football match 

  Activists in Bologna protested the friendly football match played on Tuesday between Italy and Turkey.
• International protest against appointment of trustee in Hakkari 

  International reaction to trustee fascism
• PES calls out to Turkish authorities on antidemocratic removal of co-mayor of Hakkari 

  The Party of European Socialists called on the Turkish authorities to honor the mandate of the people of Hakkari.
• AKP MPs attack DEM Party action in Parliament 

  AKP members attacked the protest action organized by DEM Party deputies in the Turkish parliament against the appointment of a trustee in Hakkari.
• DEM Party MPs protest trustee Hakkari coup in Turkish parliament 

  DEM Party MPs came together in parliament and started a protest against the appointment of a trustee to Hakkari Municipality.
• Lawyers’ organisations protest the usurpation of Hakkari Municipality 

  Legal organisations protested the seizure of Hakkari Municipality through a trustee.
• Kurdish organizations in Europe protest appointment of trustee in Hakkari  

  Kurdish organizations in Europe protested the usurpation of will in Hakkari with actions held in Cologne and Winterthur.
• KCDK-E calls on the Kurdish people and their friends to stand up 

  KCDK-E called on the Kurdish people and their friends to take to the streets against the usurpation of the municipality of Hakkari and said, “We will respond by raising our struggle against these genocidal attacks in Europe, Australia and Canada.”
• Urgent international call following the replacement of the elected mayor with a trustee in Hakkari 

  DEM Party calls on all pro-democracy communities, all parties and international institutions, to take a firm stance against the political coup, to stand in solidarity with the DEM Party, and to defend the political will of the people of Hakkari.
• CHP leader calls for withdrawal of the appointment of trustee to Hakkari Municipality 

  CHP Chairman Özgür Özel reacted to the usurpation of Hakkari Municipality and demanded the withdrawal of the appointment of a trustee.
• KCK: Let’s raise the united struggle against isolation and torture 

  KCK calls on Kurds, the peoples of Turkey, democratic forces, those who oppose fascism and are in favor of freedom, democracy, and law, to support the demands of political prisoners and to raise a united struggle against the isolation-torture system.
• DEM Party takes uninterrupted action against usurpation of Hakkari Municipality 

  DEM Party Group Deputy Chairperson Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit announced that they will start an uninterrupted vigil action in front of all municipalities against the usurpation of Hakkari Municipality and called for solidarity.
• KNK pays tribute to lawyer Saraceni 

  Luigi Saraceni, magistrate, founder of Magistratura Democratica, member of parliament and a friend of the Kurdish people and lawyer of Abdullah Öcalan, passed away.
• German personalities send a letter to the CPT  

  Dozens of German personalities sent a letter to the CPT asking it to promote a delegation to Imrali.
• Turkish police storm town hall of Hakkari and take DEM party co-mayor into custody 

  Turkish police stormed the town hall of Hakkari and took the co-mayor Mehmet Sıddık Akış into custody.
• Prisoner of 30 years released: We are not free until all political prisoners are released 

  Released after 30 years, Mehmet Emin Ersoy stated that he will not be free until all political prisoners are released and called for public awareness.
• Resistance in İmralı made success inevitable 

  Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan, who is held hostage under isolation in İmralı prison, made success inevitable with his will and resistance.
• Emine Şenyaşar's Justice Vigil continues 

  Members of the Union of Chambers of Turkish Engineers and Architects and the Chamber of Electrical Engineers visited Emine Şenyaşar on Justice Vigil in Ankara.
• KCDK-E and PYD Europe call for protests against Turkey’s massacres in Kurdistan 

  “The occupying army of the genocidal Turkish state is committing massacres in Kurdistan. We call for democratic reaction and active solidarity,” said the KCDK-E and PYD Europe in the face of the increasingly ongoing attacks on Kurdish lands.
• Tomorrow citizens in Akpazar and Hilvan will go to the polls again 

  The election campaign in the municipalities of Akpazar in Dersim province and Hilvan in Urfa province is coming to an end. The DEM party is determined to win.
• Lawyer Merve Nur Doğan sentenced to 9 years in prison on ‘terror’ charges 

  Lawyer Merve Nur Doğan of Diyarbakır Bar Association was forcibly brought to the SEGBİS room by court order to the hearing she refused to attend to protest the absolute isolation of Öcalan. She was sentenced to 9 years in prison.
• Swedish politician: İmralı isolation affects all prisoners in the country 

  Swedish Left Party candidate for the European Parliament, Lotta Lagnander, visited the Gävleborg People's Assembly. ‘İmralı isolation affects all prisoners in the country,’ said Lagnander.
• Police take 4 people into custody in Suruç 

  At least 4 people were detained in house raids carried out by Turkish state forces in Urfa’s Suruç district.
• ÖHD: 104 people taken into custody under torture in Istanbul 

  ÖHD said that 104 people were detained under torture in Arnavutköy Imrahor District and announced that some of them were seriously injured.