Saturday Mothers reiterated their demand for justice on the International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance, stating that enforced disappearance is a shame of humanity and emphasized that it is the duty of everyone with dignity to fight to erase this shame.
IHD and relatives of the disappeared read the stories of the enforced disappearance of Mehmet Salim Acar in Amed, Ali Gündüz in Êlih and asked for the perpetrators of Sait Akın who was murdered in Gever.
82-year-old ill prisoner Makbule Özer was left at the prison gate in the morning without informing them, her son Medeni Özer said that his mother was kept waiting at the prison gate for an hour.
147 names, including artists, journalists, rights defenders and intellectuals, called for the overturning of Ayten Öztürk's sentence of 2 times aggravated life imprisonment.
Stating that “Esat Oktay Yıldıran practices” are in effect in prisons in Serhat, IHD Wan Branch Co-Chair Lawyer Mehmet Salih Coşkun stated that speaking Kurdish is prevented.
Peace Mothers, who have been continuously struggling for an honorable peace, stated that the effects of the war are felt in every field and that negotiations should be held with Abdullah Öcalan, the only person who can ensure peace.
ÖHD Riha Branch Prisons Coordinator Sabri Güngen talked about the rights violations in Urfa Type T Prison, where ill prisoners are not released despite the “cannot stay in prison” report, and noted that the basis of all violations is the İmralı isolation.
Nazım Babaoğlu's brother Cemal Babaoğlu, who stated that they greeted the “International Day of the Victims of Enforced Disappearance” with a struggle, said that their demands for the events that remain in the dark to be clarified and for the state to internalize the law were not met.
Bekir Yollu, an ill prisoner of 30 years in Kırşehir Prison, was prevented from being released for the second time on the grounds that he was not in “good behavior” despite completing his sentence.
Reading passages from PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan's defenses, women gave the message “Despite the isolation, Abdullah Öcalan's ideas are in every sphere of life."
Riha 78's Initiative member Mehmet Ural was detained after attending a funeral.
Calling for a World Peace Day event in Ankara, Labor and Democracy Forces stated that the government's policies threatening the future of the peoples of the Middle East have become a global problem and said: “Peace is in the resistance of oppressed peoples.”
DEM Party MP Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu visited Emine Şenyaşar, who continues her struggle for justice, and asked Numan Kurtulmuş, the Speaker of the Grand National Assembly of Turkey, “Stand by your mother. Why are you silent?” he asked.
The body of journalist Gulistan Tara was taken on the road to Êlih after the ceremony held in Sulaymaniyah.
Lawyers from the Asrın Law Office have made a new application for a meeting with their client Abdullah Öcalan, whom they have not heard from for 42 months.