Provincial heads of the Saadet Party, DEVA and CHP in Wan (Van) said the government must take action for the continuation of the process, adding: “What is essential is to implement legal regulations based on the concept of justice.”
Lawyer Eren Keskin stated that the Forensic Medicine Institute (ATK) prolonged the process by releasing DNA results one year after the death of Rojin Kabaiş, adding: “ATK has worked to conceal torture up until today.”
Yasin Aktaş, Co-chair of the Riha (Urfa) Branch of the Lawyers for Freedom Association (ÖHD), stated that there is no need for a legal amendment to implement the “right to hope” for Abdullah Öcalan, emphasizing: “We are a party to the European Convention on Human Rights. If the Convention is respected, the ‘right to hope’ can be applied.”
Stating that she was mistaken for a dead person in a photograph and consequently put on trial, mother of three Rojbin Nergiz said: “That person is not me. I want justice.”
The Independent High Electoral Commission of Iraq announced the results of the parliamentary elections after the objections. Voter turnout in Kurdistan was recorded as 71.65 per cent in Erbil, 65.02 per cent in Kirkuk, 60.15 per cent in Sulaymaniyah, and 77.47 per cent in Duhok.
Participants at the Democratic Unity Initiative meeting in Mersin stated that the Commission should meet with the solution’s key figure, Abdullah Ocalan.
Thousands marched in Qamishlo demanding the physical freedom of Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
The Movement Leadership announced that guerrilla forces in the Zap area have been relocated to different and appropriate areas.
DEM Party Co-Chair Tülay Hatimoğulları condemned ongoing environmental destruction in Dêrsim (Tunceli), calling on the government and corporations to withdraw from the region.
Imprisoned Kurdish politican Selahattin Demirtaş was send a message to the IHD 22nd Ordinary General Assembly and said: “We will definitely build a free, equal, and just future together.”
The family of Azat Tas, who has a 62 per cent mental disability report and suffers from epilepsy, reacted to his repeated arrests and called for action.
Burhan Kartal, who visited his brother at the high-security “well-type” prison in Adana, said: “Once inside the prisons, the mask they wear falls. Special war policies are being applied in prisons.”
The National Solidarity, Brotherhood and Democracy Commission in Parliament is scheduled to convene on 18 November at 3:00 p.m. local time in the Grand National Assembly’s Ceremonial Hall, under the chairmanship of Parliament Speaker Numan Kurtulmus.
Journalist Delil Zilan, commenting on the formation of a new Syrian army based on the model of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), stated, “A verbal agreement was reached that is accepted by U.S. and French forces, as well as by both the SDF and the provisional Damascus government.”
In a supplementary report submitted by the Council of Forensic Medicine (ATK) regarding the case of Rojin Kabaiş, it was confirmed that the two DNA samples found on her body could not have resulted from contamination. It has been learned that the prosecutor’s office will now proceed with further evaluation and DNA comparison focusing on potential suspects.