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• New round of talks in Belfast kicks off on Monday 

  Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said she believes an agreement can be reached after round-table five-party talks began in Belfast this week.
• Peace Delegation to Imrali met Council of Europe representatives 

  International Peace Delegation to Imrali met with representatives of Council of Europe in Strasbourg.
• “We handled handovers for Turkish soldiers in Suleiman Shah” 

  ISIS amir Abu Hajir said they handled the handover ceremonies for Turkish soldiers during the year they had the Suleiman Shah Tomb under blockade in 2014.
• Lawyer Newroz Uysal talks about the meeting with Öcalan 

  Newroz Uysal, one of the lawyers for Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan, told ANF about the meeting they had in Imralı Island Prison on May 2nd.
• Bahoz Erdal: We prepare for the great war 

  People’s Defense Central Headquarters Command Member Dr. Bahoz Erdal said the war in the Middle East is not going to end in the short term and added: “The guerrilla prepares for an extensive, long-term war, and this is a necessity.”
• “Remembering means fighting” – the day of Ulrike Meinhof’s death 

  “If our identity is our political consciousness, whose content is collectivity (guerrilla, armed struggle), then they cannot tear it out by isolation without killing.”
• Nobel Prize Laureate Esquivel sent new letter to CPT 

  Nobel Prize Laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel expressed their concern for Abdullah Ocalan and demanding the CPT to act on isolation.
• Prisoners: Our resistance will continue until our demands are met 

  PKK and PAJK prisoners said Öcalan’s meeting with lawyers did not mean the end of the isolation, and vowed that they will never give up on resistance until their demands are met.
• Lawyers held a press conference on meeting with Öcalan - UPDATED 

  Four lawyers appealed to visit the client, but only two of the lawyers were approved and those two lawyers were the ones to hold the meeting.
• Hezbolcounter settled in Southern Kurdistan 

  The legal façade of the Hezbolcounter Huda-Par and the capital group HAKSIAD were received at the top level in Southern Kurdistan under the guarantee of the MIT and lead of the KDP. They were allowed to set up an official representation office.
• Turkish ISIS responsible: Kobanê was the biggest mistake 

  Ilyas Aydin, one of the officials of the ISIS in Turkey, is in captivity in northern Syria.
• Sinn Féin confirmed to be the party of change in local elections 

  Sinn Féin obtained good results at North of Ireland local elections, while unionist parties lost heavily.
• Dersim Genocide remembered on 81st anniversary 

  4 May marked the 81st anniversary of the beginning of the Dersim Genocide. The Turkish government massacred thousands of people, those who survived were banished, Dersim was depopulated.
• Bobby Sands died on hunger strike on 5 May 1981 

  On 5 May 1981 IRA Volunteer, Hunger Striker and Fermanagh South/Tyrone MP Bobby Sands died in the H-Block prison hospital at Long Kesh. 
• Prisoner on death fast: We've done our part, now is up to you  

  One of the 15 prisoners on death fast is Ardil Çeşme. "We have fulfilled our duty - she said - now is your turn.”
• "Mehmet lives in the collective memory of every Kurdish family" 

  In an interview with ANF, documentary maker Nikola Ivanovski talks about his motivations to make a film about the last few months in the life of Mehmet Aksoy, who died as a member of the YPG Press Center in an ISIS attack in Raqqa.
• Herêm Mehmoud: 65 days of hunger strike in South Kurdistan 

  Herêm Mehmoud has been on hunger strike for 65 days in the town of Kelar in Germiyan. He says to be ready to pay the price for the free lives of the Kurdish people.
• NAV-DEM: Support Kurdish and democratic candidates in Europe 

  The Democratic Kurdish Community Center of Germany (NAV-DEM) called on Kurdish voters to support candidates supporting liberties in the European Parliament elections.
• After the victory of the Socialist Party in Spain 

  Right parties saw their expectations to govern frustrated.
• Remembering Taksim Workers' Day massacre 42 years ago 

  The figures regarding the casualties is still a debated issue, although the accredited numbers are of 37 persons killed and over 200 persons being injured.
• A political prisoner’s letter to humanity: “Where is your voice?” 

  Murat Türk, a former guerrilla fighter from Kurdistan, was arrested in 1995 and sentenced to life in prison by a Turkish court. For two months, he has been on hunger strike to protest the prison isolation of the Kurdish representative Abdullah Öcalan.
• Spring in Amed through ANF lenses 

  With the arrival of spring, there are more than 250 bird species in the Hewsel Gardens, where colourful and beautiful floral scents conquest the air.
• Messages of solidarity to Yusuf Iba pour in from around the world 

  Kurdish activist Yusuf Iba went on hunger strike 107 days ago in Toronto demanding the end of isolation against Abdullah Öcalan.
• Spanish state goes to the polls today 

  Today the Spanish state will hold its third general election in four years.
• Prostitution through Turkey in Afrin 

  The invading Turkish state has accelerated the implementation of prostitution and drugs in Afrin as well as turning citizens into spies in recent months.