Mardin Governorship has announced that operations would be carried out in Akarsu neighbourhood in Nusaybin and that therefore curfew was declared in the neighbourhood which would be in effect until further notice.

A missile attack was carried out in Kovan Tepe region of Çukurca district of Hakkari killing one soldier yesterday.

Minister of Justice has announced that there were 224,878 people in prisons 85,105 of whom are arrested and 139,773 are convicted. The Ministry has pointed out that the figure exceeded the capacity by 22,000.

Setting up tents, opening stands, sit-in protests and all similar demonstrations and events have been banned through State of Emergency Law for 30 days in Van.

Eight people seven of whom have been lightly injured in the explosion that occurred in a garbage dumpster as the prison bus was driving by in İzmir’s district of Buca.

The Education Union has announced that its 367 members in Urfa, 264 in Diyarbakır and 51 in Antep have been banished to outside of the cities.

The Ankara University Presidency has brought an investigation against the academics who staged a protest against an academic purge.

The son of former CHP Darıca Women’s Branch chair Satı Bozkurt, who has a 82% disability, has been taken by gendarmerie during a gendarmerie traffic stop to a military induction center for being “draft dodger”.

Rights defender Dalkıran, who was arrested along with other rights defenders during a workshop in Büyükada, has sent a letter to Agos weekly from prison saying that the solidarity people showed the rights defenders made them resilient in prison.

Nalan Erken, who was among the rights advocates arrested after being detained in Büyükada, had gastric bleeding in prison. She will be sent to the hospital on November 1.

Gülsüm Elvan, taken into custody during a protest in solidarity with the arrested academics Gülmen and Özakça on hunger strike, has filed a criminal complaint over the police breaking her arm while handcuffing her from the back.

In his response to Hakan’s article, Minister of Justice Gül has said, “It is not true that the people who wear Hero t-shirt have been victimized”.

Previously detained in Spain upon Turkey’s request, Doğan Akhanlı has been released. The court on duty in Madrid has allotted Turkey 40 days to provide justification for its demand of extradition.

Being detained during the Büyükada operation, İlknur Üstün from the Women’s Coalition has said, “These events are not normal. Considering them normal means to justify these”.

According to the Human Rights Foundation of Turkey’s statement, there has been at least 252 officially confirmed round-the-clock and open-ended curfews in 11 cities and rights of 1,809,000 people have been violated.

Nurettin Altun, Village Head of Kadıköy neighbourhood of Yüksekova district in Hakkari claimed to have been kidnapped by PKK has been found dead.

Responding to the statement by the Batman governor denying that dynamite was being used for the removal of rocks, HDP MP Aslan asked “Are these then images of children popping balloons?” and protested by chaining himself to a rock in Hasankeyf, the 12,000 year-old ancient town that is under direct threat of being submerged.

Stating that Special Communication Tax that started to be collected to dress the wounds of the August 17 earthquake has become permanent during the AKP, said that 60 billion TL has been collected so far.

Journalists have called for the release of Murat Çelikkan, who was sentenced to 18 months in prison on charge of “propaganda” for serving as Editor-in-Chief at Özgür Gündem for one day.

Murat Çelikkan enters prison today after being sentenced to 18 months in the trial he faced for joining the Editors-in-Chief on Watch campaign that was organized by the now-closed newspaper Özgür Gündem.