Journalist Fatih Altaylı's interview with Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan was published for the first time after 28 years. Abdullah Öcalan had said: " As long as there is dialogue, we will lay down all our arms tomorrow.”
People's Defence Forces Press Liaison Center (HPG-BIM) announced that Turkey carried out operations in Çewlig (Bingol), Amed (Diyarbakır) and Besta regions and stated that those who give the orders are responsible for the consequences of a possible contact.
Koma Amed members, who will give a concert in Amed (Diyarbakır) after 30 years, were welcomed with songs at the airport.
Stating that the effects of the failure to form a government in the Federated Kurdistan Region for more than a year have manifested itself in every field, academician Kamuran Berwarî noted that Turkey is preparing for a serious war in the region.
Êlih (Batman) TUAY-DER Co-chair Hasan Arığtekin said that if a lasting peace is to be achieved and a democratic society is to be built, all prisoners, especially sick prisoners, must be released.
Representatives of Kurdish literature, who met with their readers at the Amed Book Fair, stated that they are trying to prevent assimilation and said, "Kurdish publishing should be supported more strongly against assimilation."
Journalist-writer Hüseyin Aykol, who was intubated after a brain haemorrhage, has started antibiotic treatment due to an infection in his lungs.
Former president of Amed (Diyarbakır) Bar Association stressed that the state should change the laws and meet with Abdullah Öcalan in order to solve the Kurdish issue.
Relatives of prisoners stated that despite the Peace and Democratic Society Process pressure continue in prisons and called on the state and the government to take concrete steps.
Human Rights Association (IHD) Ankara Branch co-chair Omer Faruk Yazmaci met with prioners in Kırşehir S-Type Closed Prison and he stated that relese of 8 prisoners prevented between July and October. "Kırşehir S-Type does not release anyone," he said.
2 thousand 179 kilometres of Agirî's (Ağrı) 2 thousand 636 kilomtres of village roads are still stabilised. Melik Ozmus, co-chiar of the People's Equality and Democracy (DEM) Party Provincial General Assembly said: "The appointed ones act according to the policies of the government and divide the people according to their preferences."
The sleeping pills given to journalist Huseyin Aykol, who was intubated after a brain haemorrhage in Ankara, have been reduced again.
The Syrian Transitional Government forces closed the Tebqa-Salemiya road, which connects North and East Syria to other parts of the country.
Kamaran Osman, CPT’s Iraq representative, warned that Turkey is preparing for a new war in the Zap and Avaşîn regions of the Kurdistan Region, building new military bases while continuing large-scale deforestation, even during on-going peace talks.
The release of political prisoner Hakki Ay, held at Elazığ Type-1 High Security Closed Prison, was postponed for six months after he told the Prison Administration and Observation Board, “A person can’t regret something they didn’t do.”