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Prominent publisher, writer and activist Ragip Zarakolu, who was arrested last week as part of the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) case, has been sent to a high-security prison ahead of his trial.

Publisher Ragip Zarakolu is currently kept at the Metris high-security prison while his son Deniz Zarakolu, other editor of the Belge Publishing House is under arrest at the Edirne Prison.

TO THE PRESS AND PUBLIC OPINION, 31 October 2011,
Since October 24, it has been announced that there are corpses of 24 people at the morgue of Malatya State Hospital. A delegation formed by BDP (Peace and Democracy Party), İHD (Human Rights Association) and MEYADER (Mesopotamia Assistance Solidarity and Cultural Association of Families who Lost Their Relatives) shared the results of their investigation with public opinion.

The delegation did not and will not comment on the allegations presented by the parties concerned but remains convinced that an apparently systematic, massive and ongoing persecution of local politicians is undermining local democracy in this large member state of the Council of Europe, which committed itself to the values of democracy, human rights and the rule of law as far back as in 1949.

The Solidarity Platform of Imprisoned Journalists (TGDP) reminds that 62 journalists and writers were still in the prisons as the country is going to celebrate Sacrifice Holiday. TGDP calls all to visit them in prison or to send them the messages of sympathy and solidarity.

IHD and BDP delegation surveyed the area of Kazan Valley where Turkish army carried out an operation allegedly using chemical weapons

Bodies of some guerrillas are still missing

If Zarakolu and Ersanli are KCK, then I am too, Sanar Yurdatapan

Promoter of the campaign, lawyer Eren Keskin, said a petition is ongoing while an action will take place soon