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• Give democracy a chance in June 24 election 

  “HDP provides the opportunity of building an alternative to the AKP-MHP fascist alliance.”
• Holidaying in Turkey? Think it twice 

  The International Solidarity Platform and the Platform for Afrin have launched a tourism boycott campaign.
• Selahattin Demirtaş: The people’s candidate 

  The HDP confirmed that jailed former co-chair will run for President on 24 June
• Demirtaş: The HDP will be the best surprise of the election 

  In a message thanking for being nominated candidate, Demirtaş encouraged everyone to work hard to win
• ETA dissolution: consistency, honesty and political vision 

  “ETA was born out of the Basque people and now it dissolves in it”
• Demirtaş: HDP and the left can defeat the AKP 

  These elections, writes Demirtaş, could determine the future of politics in Turkey.
• Kobanê: Football to promote solidarity 

  Sport is part of the coexistence and collective project of the Rojava Revolution
• KCK's Altun: Third World War reached new stage 

  ANF spoke with Riza Altun about this new phase in the Third World War, the role of the international coalition forces, Russia-Turkey, Russia-Iran, Russia-Syria relations, elections in Iraq and Turkey elections and the possible consequences.
• Livh: Saving Hasankeyf and Sur is everyone’s duty 

  A tent was set up in Stockholm to rise awareness and expose the destruction plans by Erdogan’s government
• KCK’s Karasu: The Turkish government without a solution will fall 

  KCK Executive Council Member Mustafa Karasu stated that the AKP-MHP fascism can’t resolve the issues in Turkey and added that the will to end this will emerge on May 1.
• People on the streets for Hasankeyf and Sur 

  Appeals to save the two ancient heritage sites come from all over the world
• KJK’s Çiğdem Doğu: Time for workers to unite on May Day 

  ​​​​​​​“This year we celebrate May Day to counter State of Emergency.”
• People of Afrin speak of the tyranny and “the enemy within” 

  Pressure against Kurds who remained in Afrin after the invasion attacks by Turkish state and their allied gang groups increases every day.Those who were able to leave spoke of the tyranny they endured and the “traitors within” that gave them the most pain
• TEV-DEM co-chair: A new phase has begun in Syria 

  “The Turkish state is playing on a few tables at the same time. There is no politics that is so solid and primal. Turkey tries to protect its interests by building relationships with one of the other depending on the day.”
• Karasu: War in Syria continues due to Turkey’s policies 

  We publish the English translation of a piece written by KCK Executive Council Member Mustafa Karasu for Yeni Özgür Politika newspaper about latest developments in Syria and Kurdistan.
• Orders from the MİT, murders from the Kiyam Movement 

  It has come to light that the MİT and ISIS are behind the Kiyam (“Mutiny”) Movement, which poses as an independent organization of Syrians.
• Footage from the shooting of Kurkut at Amed Newroz 

  Footage has surfaced from the shooting of Kemal Kurkut who was executed on the street during Newroz celebrations in Amed in 2017.
• Karasu:Turkey engaged in a new comprehensive attack against Kurds 

  Karasu noted that a new conspiracy process has begun, with occupation attacks spread across all Medya Defense Zones and southern Kurdistan.
• KCK's Bayık: Syria must accept Kurds' self-government and freedom 

  "Today, the world's most liberal, most democratic mindset lie with Kurds. And nobody wants to have such a people against them."
• "Freedom movement won't let this people suffer another genocide" 

  Avesta: “The Êzidî people are going through a historic period. The Êzidî people are now conscious of how they will live, how they will defend themselves and how they will be united with other peoples, and that needs to continue."
• Former FARC guerrillas discuss the peace process 

  This weekend there will be an important meeting in Colombia where the leadership of the FARC party and the delegates of the Territorial Spaces for Training and Reincorporation Spaces will analyze the progress and difficulties of reincorporation process.
• Water as a war tool 

  Turkey has always shown little understanding of the environment, also from an ecological point of view. It has shown no mercy towards nature and people, destroying the landscape and burying a millenary history under water.
• Turkey's Afrin policy echoes the English Plantation of Ulster 

  Turkey’s policy of ethnically cleansing Afrin by killing former citizens, expelling them from the area and, ultimately, replacing them with other people literally “planted” in the city and wider area, resembles the so called Plantation of Ulster.
• The footprint of Alina in Latin America 

  Alina Sánchez, Lêgerîn Çiya, fighter, companion, anxious to know, share, weave networks from the most human places, has walked and touched many lives in Latin America. ANF publishes stories and memories of some of those who have known her.
• "We liberated Manbij, we will continue to defend it" 

  “When we were within the FSA and fighting against the regime, we were no terrorists, but today, as we have nothing to do with them, we become terrorists. So, are we terrorists then because we live as free people and we take decision and life in our hands?