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• BMG alliance calls for Workers Day Actions  

  Despite it is very likely that all events will be banned on Workers Day, the BMG alliance mobilizes for decentralized actions. Eight activists were arrested while putting up posters in Ankara.
• Şenyaşar family: “Prosecutors will also be brought to account one day” 

  Şenyaşar family is continuing their justice vigil in front of the Urfa Courthouse to protest the murders committed by the ruling AKP members. The family slammed the prosecutors, saying "They will also be brought to account before the judiciary one day."
• Explosion results in casualties in Baghdad 

  One person was killed and 12 injured, according to a preliminary investigation.
• Constitutional Court returns the HDP indictment to the Court of Cassation 

  The Court of Cassation chief prosecutor failed to prove the relation between the HDP and the acts listed in the indictment, according to the justification.
• HDP Amed provincial co-chair Hülya Alökmen jailed 

  The Turkish state’s political genocide against the Kurdish people and their elected representatives continues increasingly.
• Hunger strike in Turkey’s prisons on day 140 

  The hunger strike launched in Turkish prisons against the Imrali isolation has entered its 140th day. The solidarity action launched in Maxmur has been continuing for 119 days and in Greece for 102 days.
• Lawyers apply once again to visit Öcalan 

  Abdullah Öcalan's lawyers have applied once again to visit their client on Imrali after his call for a meeting with his lawyers within a legal framework.
• Kapıköy border gate remains closed despite protests by people of Van 

  The closure of Kapıköy border gate in Van negatively affects the lives of residents, yet the AKP-MHP government has no intention to reopen it despite criticism.
• Young activists in Stuttgart protest isolation of Abdullah Öcalan 

  TCŞ and TekoJIN activists in Stuttgart protested the isolation of Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan with a tent action.
• Vigil for Öcalan in Cologne 

  A vigil for the freedom of Abdullah Öcalan is taking place in Cologne. Speeches protested against the illegal isolation of the Kurdish leader and the inaction of Europe.
• Kurds continue their vigil outside the UN office in Geneva 

  Kurdish activists continued a sit-in protest in front of the United Nations Office in Geneva protesting against the isolation imposed on Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan in Turkey.
• Kurds protest Imrali isolation in Russia 

  Kurds living in Krasnodar, Russia protested the Imrali isolation and said that they will raise the struggle.
• HDP delegation visits Şenyaşar family protesting in Urfa 

  HDP deputy Mahmut Toğrul visited the Şenyaşar family's vigil in front of the court in Urfa. Emine Şenyaşar and her son are demanding justice for their family members murdered by bodyguards and relatives of an AKP deputy.
• HDP in Amed stages sit-in to condemn isolation of Öcalan 

  HDP Amed Provincial Organization and non-governmental organizations held a sit-in protest in Koşuyolu Park against the Imrali isolation.
• Survey: Öcalan is the main interlocutor to resolve the Kurdish issue 

  The survey was conducted on April 1-10, 2021 in 18 cities including Diyarbakır, Batman, Şanlıurfa, Mardin, Antep, Van, Şırnak, Siirt, Muş, Malatya, Iğdır, Hakkari, Elazığ, Dersim, Bitlis, Bingöl, Ağrı, Adıyaman.
• Hearing of Demirtaş postponed 

  The prosecution demanded that the case of Demirtaş be combined with the Kobanê Case at the 22nd High Criminal Court in Ankara.
• Turkish police raid 13 houses and detain 10 people in Ceyhan 

  Turkish police raided 13 addresses and detained at least 10 people in Adana's Ceyhan district.
• Senators demand the release of Abdullah Öcalan in front of the Spanish Senate 

  Senators from 7 different parties from the Spanish State demanded the release of Abdullah Öcalan in front of the Senate.
• Lindsey German: Europe governments must end inhuman treatment of refugees 

  Stop the War Coalition convener, Lindsey German, speaks about the Syrian war and the refugees crisis.
• Petition for Syriac priest sentenced to prison in Turkey 

  A petition has been launched for priest Bileçen, who has been sentenced to prison: “We demand that the government drop all charges against the monk, who only acted according to his values and gave bread and water to those who asked for it.”
• Pervin Buldan: HDP pursues the Third Way 

  “HDP wants to form strategic alliances with all those who advocate the brotherhood of peoples and equal coexistence. This is the essence of our strategic stance on Turkey," said Pervin Buldan, co-chair of the party.
• Vigil protest at Boğaziçi University on day 100 

  On the 100th day of the vigil protest, the academicians gathered at the South Campus Square and turned their backs on the rectorate building.
• Öcalan’s lawyers file new application to visit their client in Imrali 

  Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan’s lawyers filed a new application demanding an "urgent visit" with their client.
• Lawyer Engels: Abdullah Öcalan is the key to peace in Turkey 

  “Öcalan is a personality who will play a central role in future negotiations and will be a key to peace as was Nelson Mandela. That is the reason for his continued imprisonment,” says lawyer Tim Engels.
• Kurds from Mannheim and Saarbrücken take over Freedom for Öcalan Vigil 

  A group of activists from the German cities of Mannheim and Saarbrücken took over the Freedom for Öcalan Vigil in Strasbourg on week 460.