As of October 2017, the number of unemployed has become 3 million 287 thousand people with a 1.5% increase. The women employment shows increase by 1.1 points compared to October 2016.

Writing to the Human Rights Association, Seyran Demir has said that she has cancer and Hepatitis-B, dropped to 35 kilos and was taken to hospital by a prison shuttle.

One soldier has lost his life, three others have been wounded in a missile attack launched by the PKK in Çukurca, Hakkari.

It has been announced that Merkel and Schulz have come to an agreement in Germany where a government couldn’t be formed for over 100 days. There is the condition that “No new chapter will be opened with Turkey” in the draft.

HDP Co-Chair Demirtaş stood trial today as part of the trial in which he is tried on charge of “insulting president”.

HDP Ağrı MP Leyla Zana has been relieved of her MP duties at parliamentary General Assembly due to absence. HDP MPs have left the General Assembly.

Concerning Turkey’s efforts to get close with the EU countries, Commissioner for European Neighbourhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Hahn has said, “Just sweet words are not enough. There are still tens of thousands of journalists, lawyers and academics in prison”.

Men have killed 31 women, five girls and two men who tried to prevent murders in December. Two women heavily wounded “survived by feigning death”.

Courts have ruled continuation of arrest of Şahin Alpay and Mehmet Altan despite Constitutional Court ruling that their “right to personal freedom and security” and “freedom of expression and press” have been violated.

Lawyer Veysel Ok has said the Constitutional Court registered that 1-year detention was unjust. He stated that they hope this decision is such as to be rendered for all journalists.

Women prisoners, who were on hunger strike in Elazığ Type T Prison, ended their hunger strike on the 63rd day as the prison ID implementation was lifted.

Women in Van have denounced the “We Want Pink Bus for Women” campaign launched by men in Van.

HDP Co-Chair Demirtaş will be taken to court tomorrow for the first time following a 14-month detention.

A ship loaded with ammonium nitrate, non-electric fuse and 11 empty LPG tanks has been stopped offshore Crete heading to Libya. Eight crew members have been taken into custody.

Rights and LGBTI+ organizations have held a press conference in İstanbul branch building concerning ill-treatment against trans women prisoners Buse and Diren kept in Tekirdağ Type F Prison.

Constitutional Court of Germany has stopped deportation of a radical Islamist to Turkey due to “the risk that he or she may be tortured and subjected to inhumane detention conditions”. The verdict qualifies to be precedential.

Productions about Kurdistan in addition to animations, Art & Sound section and movies on 68 generation enrich 29th International Trieste Film Festival.

Every Wednesday for 52 weeks, men working in the fields of media, literature, academia, sports, cinema, music, and rights struggles are going to discuss male violence through their own manhood and masculinities, personal experiences and testimonies.

Women prisoners, who have been on hunger strike for 61 days, have been referred to prisons in Ağrı, Hilvan, Erzurum, Osmaniye, Maraş and Ordu.

Diyarbakır Governorship has announced that curfew has been declared due to an operation to be launched in 17 villages and hamlets in Lice and Kulp districts in province of Diyarbakır.