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Two protesters were arrested in Diyarbakir, Turkey, on Sunday during protests demanding an end the isolation of Abdullah Ocalan the jailed leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party.
24 more protesters in Iran have been sentenced to death and charged with the crime of ‘waging war again God’. On Thursday, a young man, Mohsen Shekari was hanged for his participation in the nationwide uprisings.
Turkey’s ruling party has been making efforts to link the opposition Republican People’s Party, or CHP and the Kurdistan Worker’s Party (PKK), these efforts have escalated ahead of the 2023 elections. Turkish prosecutors are demanding prison sentences of 15 years for 29 people at a district municipality controlled by the CHP.
The European Left Congress took place on Saturday. Kurdish activists from various countries took the stage in solidarity against oppressive regimes, and were saluted by their European peers. At the congress, Sinan Önal also called on European states to follow the lead of the Belgium supreme court and lately the European Justice Court in Luxembourg in removing PKK from terror lists.
In other news, a new short film tells the story of prominent Kurdish politician Aysel Tuğluk, the film is called, “A life dedicated to peace.”
Learn more in our Daily Review.
