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• Satellite images show extent of destruction in Kurdish cities 

  The satellite images show the extent of Turkish army’s destruction of Kurdish cities during popular resistance in 2015-16 in Nusaybin, Sur and Sirnak.
• Fire in Turkish military operation zone in Şemdinli 

  Fire broke out in the area of the Turkish military operation in Şapatan village of Şemdinli.
• YPS: One street custodian punished in Amed 

  YPS Press Center announced that a street custodian named Ramazan Muğla who works in Amed’s Yenişehir district was detained, tried and punished.
• Iranian regime also resorts to trustees 

  The Iranian state has adapted the Turkish state’s practice of appointing trustees to municipalities in Kurdish cities. In Rojhilat, some elected members of city councils were removed from duty and replaced with people loyal to the Itlaat like trustees.
• A German guerrilla in the PKK ranks, mountains of Kurdistan 

  German guerrilla Şiyar called on all the youth around the globe to take now a stance and join the revolution as they cannot find any alternative to the system in which they can no longer live.
• Hasankeyf facing ongoing demolition like Palmyra 

  A huge rock mass has been torn down by dynamite in Hasankeyf Fortress.
• Detonation of Hasankeyf's largest rock to cause great destruction 

  In Batman’s Hasankeyf district the ongoing demolition with dynamites and construction equipment for the construction of the infamous Ilisu Hydroelectric Dam paves the way for huge damage and destruction on the history of the ancient town.
• People of Shengal are rebuilding their city 

  As part of reconstruction efforts, the people of Shengal have started to clean up their city of the wreckages left behind by the gangs and are concreting the streets that were damaged by ISIS.
• TOKİ starts building houses in Hasankeyf amid ongoing destruction 

  With the construction of Ilısu Hydroelectric Dam, the destruction caused to Hasankeyf and its 12 thousand years old memory of life is continuing. Turkish public housing authority has already launched casting concrete for the construction of 710 buildings.
• East Kurdistan youth protest Öcalan’s isolation on Mount Demawend 

  Young people from East Kurdistan (Rojhilat) protested the isolation of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan on Mount Demawend in Tehran.
• Pillaged areas opened for profiteering in Nusaybin 

  With the demolition launched after the state attacks, 6 neighborhoods have been torn to the ground in Nusaybin. The ministry gifted the people’s homes to contractors, and they are planning on building a shopping mall in the demolished area.
• Turkish airstrike starts a fire in Zap 

  The fire started by the Turkish army’s bombardment on Zap continues for two days.
• Shengal's resistance will be crowned with democratic autonomy 

  The basic duty of all Êzidîs, lovers of freedom and those who have been oppressed and tyrannised for years is to stand up for this this democratic autonomy project and implement it.
• KDP does not allow Êzidîs to return to Shengal 

  Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) officials are creating obstacles for the Êzidîs who want to return from the refugee camps in South Kurdistan back to Shengal.
• “Êzidîs will always follow the path of Leader Apo” 

  Mothers of Shengal deem the isolation imposed on Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Ocalan an isolation imposed on humanity and demand his freedom.
• Sur is resisting against demolition 

  The people still refuse to leave their homes and continue their resistance in Sur, which is being forcibly evacuated and demolished by use of police force, even though their water and electricity supply has been completely cut off.
• Training cycle of YBŞ ‘Special Units’ in Shengal completed 

  Works towards advancing self-defense continue in Shengal town that is recovering from the brutal genocide perpetrated by ISIS on August 3, 2014.
• Hasankeyf demolished by both dynamite and construction equipment 

  Demolition continues with construction equipment in the historic Darphane Fortress which has been blown up with dynamite in the antique town of Hasankeyf.
• Clash in Banê 

  Clash broke out last night between the Iranian regime forces and Rojhilati forces in Rojhilat’s Banê city.
• 47-year-old man jailed in Ağrı for wearing 'Kurdistan' T-shirt 

  In Doğubayazıt district of Ağrı, 47 years old Mahmut Kahraman was jailed for wearing a T-shirt with the inscription 'Kurdistan' under the accusation of 'propagating for a terrorist organisation'.
• Ankara ordered water cut in Sur 

  The demolition in the Alipaşa neighborhood of Amed’s central Sur district continues with force.
• YBŞ Commander: We will protect the autonomy project of Shengal 

  One of the YBŞ commanders Seîd Hesen Seîd stated that they constitute a part of the Democratic Autonomy Project of Êzidxan and said: "We, as the YBŞ are ready to protect our project with all our might against any attack.”
• Demolition with construction equipment starts in Hasankeyf 

  In the antique town Hasankeyf, where human formed rocks were destroyed through explosives recently, demolition continues now with construction equipment.
• Turkish state continues burning the forests in Dersim 

  Wildfires started by the attacks of the Turkish army continue destroying the nature of Northern Kurdistan.
• Iranian regime forces shoot a Kurdish civilian 

  Iranian regime forces opened fire on a Kurdish civilian’s car in Banê town, leaving the man critically wounded with 4 bullets in his body.