Stating that they experienced injustice once again with the release of Ogün Samast, Rakel Dink said: “We know that those who ordered Dink's death are walking among us. We have said since day one that darkness must be questioned."
It was stated that poet-writer Fadıl Öztürk and his wife Berrin Bicek Öztürk were detained from their home in İzmir in the morning.
Families of PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan and other prisoners held in İmralı applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and İmralı Prison Directorate to meet with their relatives.
Stating that the state should comply with the laws regarding the isolation in İmralı, HEDEP Wan MP Sinan Çiftyürek said: "The march to Gemlik is a democratic right and the state should not prevent it."
Stating that the government is afraid of PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan's voice reaching the public, women from Silopia called for participation in the Freedom March said: "We want to get information about the situation of our leader and for his release."
Hrant's Friends condemned the release of murderer Ogün Samast by saying, "Those who protect the murderers is an accomplice to the murder!"
Abdullah Öcalan, who has not been heard from in İmralı Prison for 32 months, has been given a new 6-month ban on visit of a lawyer. The content of the decision was not given to lawyers for "security" reasons.
Stating that neoliberal ideology is looking for a way out of its crisis through wars, Writer Sungur Savran said: "Proletarian revolutions will end the imperialist war."
Drawing attention to the importance of the march to be held in Gemlik, Mehmet and Fatma Öcalan, brothers of PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan, said: "Let's move from Kurdistan to Turkey and march to Gemlik in order for the İmralı gates to be opened. We have to do this for the future of our children."
The appointment of a trustee to Pirsûs Municipality was protested with a press release made on its 4th anniversary.
Condemning the allegations about their journalist friend Süleyman Ahmed, who was detained by the KDP security forces, Rojnews editor Binary Hidayet said that they have witnessed KDP kidnapping journalists before.
Evaluating the World Imprisoned Writers' Day, imprisoned writers stated that writing in prison is "struggle and stubbornness to not leave the struggle".
Abdullah Şahin, who went to see his son held in Manavgat Type S Prison, condemned the practices against them and said that even greeting other prisoners was prevented.
Stating that PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan is the interlocutor in the solution of the Kurdish issue, HEDEP Wan Provincial Co-chair Veysi Dilekçi said: "The physical conditions must be changed."
Asrın Law Firm once again applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and İmralı Prison Directorate to meet with their client, PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan, whom they had not heard from for 32 months.