Azadiya Welat workers Şirin Çoban and İlker İlkan have been arrested.

As many as 70 Education Union members have been detained following a police attack in Diyarbakır. Four members are in detention in Muş and the union has demanded their immediate release.

International journalist organizations have submitted a complaint about the Ministry of Youth and Sports confiscating footage of a Deutsche Welle interview with Minister Kılıç.

Diyarbakır Governorship has announced that curfews were declared in eight neighborhoods in Lice district, three in Hani district and two in Kocaköy district as of this morning and that operations will be launched.

The European Council anti-torture Committee has visited three prisons in Turkey and inspected the situation of Öcalan and other prisoners in İmralı. The accompanying report will be presented to the relevant parties in November.

Regarding the decision to forcibly take seven HDP MPs to testify, Demirtaş has noted; “it is up to the discretion of law enforcement forces to carry out the order”.

Animal lover and sculptor Seval Şahin has begun work on the statue that is to be erected for Tombili in the neighborhood where the cat lived. “The cat in the next-door studio is a little chubby too. He modelled for me,” Şahin said.

President Erdoğan and Russia’s Leader Putin have discussed the Syrian war and a truce in Aleppo, ahead of the Feast of Sacrifice.

Trustees have been appointed to Diyarbakır’s Sur and Silvan municipalities governed by the DBP.

Foreign Minister Çavuşoğlu has stressed the importance of the Raqqa and Mosul operations. “If there is no ground operation it is not possible to destroy or even stop DAEŞ (ISIS) with airstrikes alone.”

The Ministry of National Education on its Twitter account has said, “11,285 personnel linked to separatist terror organization [PKK] have been suspended”.

PKK and PJAK members in prison will also join an indefinite hunger strike without rotation launched by 50 people in Diyarbakır last week demanding a meeting with Öcalan.