Nonviolence

The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) submitted to parliament on Aug. 6 a law proposal for the right to conscientious objection.

The proposal, prepared by HDP lawmakers Pervin Buldan and ?dris Baluken, included amendments to the Turkish penal code, military penal code and military service law.

Ten years after his death, Turkish painter Mehmet Tunalı is being remembered with a retrospective exhibition at Studio Çukurcuma in Istanbul’s Beyoğlu district.

Hong Kong students Monday began a week-long boycott of classes, gathering in their thousands for what democracy activists say will be a wider campaign of civil disobedience against China's refusal to grant the city unfettered democracy.