The whereabouts of the 13 immigrant who lost their lives by freezing after they were lost in the Sarıçimen Neighbourhood of Van’s ÇAldıran district is still not known. Mihemmed Sheıkh Nebi, the uncle of Immigrant Sheıkh Abdulrahman Abdo, said that the authorities are not sharing information with them.
The Center for Socio-Political Field Studies has reached into a conclusion by their investigation on the relationship between the socio-economic status and cultural status and the usage of mother language that the mother language was used mostly in the home, among the people with low income and peasants.
In the house raids occurred in the night hours in Mardin’s Artuklu district, 4 people were taken into custody including Abdülkadir Çalhan and his son.
The second trial of Adnan Selçuk Mızraklı, the elected co-mayor of Diyarbakır Metropolitan Municipality (DBB) will be seen tomorrow, in which he faces 15 years of prison. The acquital of Hicran Berna Ayverdi is demanded who repeated her statements against Mızraklı in court, as she was prosecuted with a demand of 73 times of aggravated life imprisonment.
It was learned that 2 out of 13 refugees who died in Van's Çaldıran district were a couple from Kobanê, Sheikh Abdulrahman Abdo and Hendreen İbish.
Mikail Kaya, who lost his nephew Murat Kapağan in the first avalanche in Bahçesaray district of Van and his uncle Muzaffer Kaya in the second, survived the second avalanche. Kaya told, “There was this many losses of life because of neglect. Measures could be taken to prevent civilians from entering the scene of avalanche. It was deliberate that they let us walk to the death.”
In the eyes of the prisoner Adem Durmuş, who is imprisoned in Samsun Bafra F-Type Closed Prison was not given treatment for the cataract disease on his left eye his left eye and now faces intraocular ossification.
It is learned that soldiers who raided a house in the morning in Çavuş village of Karayazı district of Erzurum tortured villagers in the house.
13 refugees in Caldıran district of Van have died due to freezing.
İHD's (Humar Rights Association) "Human Rights Violations Report of 2019" emphasized the increasing systematic torture and the spread of torture in the cities of the Kurdish region as well as the 31 municipalities which are assigned a trustee. Report announces that 2,987 people have been taken into custody, 511 have been arrested during the year 2019 in the region. Among the total number of 2,987 custodies, 50 of them reported to be children.
Indicating that 23 mayors in total have been arrested and a trustee has been appointed to HDP’s 32 municipalities, Human Rights Watch (HRW) says that the removal of mayors “has effectively cancelled the results of the March 31 local elections.”
Passport of Journalist Hüseyin Aykol was confiscated in İstanbul Airport where he went to go to Belgium.
Those who were burned and killed in the basements of their houses during the curfews declared in Cizre were commemorated. HDP District Co-chair Üzeyyir Kılınç stated that the responsible for the events was the AKP government and demanded the perpetrators be revealed and punished.
HDP Spokesperson Günay Kubilay who criticized the policies of the government that led to the escalating tension in Idlib, said: "Turkey must, without reserve, leave Syria. The path to a democratic political process should be established and Turkey must respect to the right of the Syrian people to determine their own destiny."
The families of Abdullah Öcalan and the other three prisoners in Imrali, applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office asking permission to visit their relatives.