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• Police attack unions trying to hold symbolic 1 May act in Taksim 

  Turkish police attacked the symbolic May Day celebration, which was planned to be held in Taksim Square, and many people were detained including DISK General Secretary Arzu Çerkezoğlu.
• Four people detained in Ankara over May Day activity 

  The group called on everyone to raise their voices on 1 May.
• Three-day curfew in Turkey 

  Turkey continues to implement partial curfews to confront the pandemic.
• Istanbul police arrest 11 activists marking May Day 

  In Istanbul, eleven activists of the Labour Movement Party (EHP) were arrested during the reading of a press release marking 1 May.
• Demirtaş calls for participation in HDP’s ‘Twin Family’ campaign 

  To date, the HDP has reached over 4200 families with its solidarity campaign in times of pandemic. Former party leader Selahattin Demirtaş is calling for people to participate in the campaign.
• 93 more people die of Coronavirus in Turkey 

  Another 93 people have died of Covid-19 in Turkey while 2,615 more cases have been detected and 4,846 people have recovered during the past 24 hours.
• Istanbul police take down HDP banners on 1 May 

  The police removed the May Day banners of the HDP from all districts of Istanbul. The posters bore messages such as "Not the virus but capitalism kills" and "Long live women's solidarity".
• "The marginalization of the Kurds has become a law" 

  "No pandemic is as dangerous as the revival of nationalist mafias in Turkey," says HDP MP Musa Farisioğulları on the impact of the prison reform passed by the Turkish parliament.
• KON-MED calls on people to celebrate International Workers' Day 

  KON-MED called on people to celebrate 1 May, drawing attention to the fact that capitalism produces chaos and underlining the importance of democratic modernity.
• HDK says government strategy to counter pandemic insufficient 

  The HDK Health Council said that the AKP-MHP government has implemented a non-strategy during the coronavirus outbreak.
• Support from DKTM to Gonesse Hospital 

  DKTM offered masks to Gonesse Hospital during the pandemic process and prepared meals for the hospital.
• KCDK-E calls on people to step up struggle on Workers' Day 

  In written statement to mark 1 May, KCDK-E called for increased resistance and democratic struggle.
• Commander Khalifa Haftar agrees to ceasefire 

  Commander Khalifa Haftar agreed to ceasefire.
• Lawyers and families apply to visit Imrali 

  Lawyers and families of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan and other prisoners in İmralı have applied to visit the prison.
• HDP: We will be everywhere on 1 May! 

  Celebrating 1 May, the HDP said in a statement: "We will be everywhere on 1 May to build a new life. Let's celebrate 1 May."
• NAV-BEL calls on people to join solidarity with Maxmur campaign 

  "As Kurds living in Belgium, we say 'give voice to Maxmur and don't leave them alone' with the spirit of national unity," said NAV-BEL.
• KESK member Koçak: "Capitalism kills, not the virus" 

  Istanbul 1 May Platform celebrated the Labor Day with the slogan "Hunger at home, pandemic at work, down with capitalism".
• 'Children of Fire' claims responsibility for several actions 

  The Children of Fire Initiative led actions in Izmir Yeşilyurt, Istanbul-Ümraniye, Denizli Merkezefendi and Dilovası of Kocaeli to protest the delivery by post of HPG guerrilla Agit Ipek's remains to his family.
• Victims of 1977 May Day massacre commemorated at Taksim, Istanbul 

  The victims of the deadly police attack on May Day demonstration 43 years ago have been commemorated at Istanbul's Taksim Square today.
• Death toll from coronavirus exceeds three thousand in Turkey 

  Over three thousand people have died of Covid-19 in Turkey where 117,589 cases have been recorded.
• PACE calls on Turkey to take urgent legal steps for prisoners 

  Call for urgent legal steps to redress the discriminatory effects of the Turkish Criminal Enforcement Law.
• BTI classifies Turkey as an autocracy for the first time 

  Of the 137 countries currently examined, the BTI classifies 74 as democracies and 63 as autocracies.
• Spanish PM unveils plan for "transition toward a new normality" 

  It is called ‘Plan for the Transition Toward a New Normality’ and it's the deescalation of coronavirus confinement measures presented by Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez.
• Police arrests two TUHAY-DER members in Van 

  Within the scope of the political genocide operations, TUHAY-DER members Halime Albay and Zeki Itah have been taken into custody in Van this morning.
• PKK: Let's raise the 1 May flag everywhere! 

  PKK Executive Committee: "It is a duty to develop the struggle for freedom, diversity and democracy by resisting the capitalist system and its attacks with the paradigm of Democratic, Ecological, Women's Libertarian Society."