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• Kızıltepe Co-mayor Leyla Salman also detained 

  Kızıltepe Co-mayor Leyla Salman has also been taken into custody after the detention of the other co-mayor İsmail Ası earlier today.
• HPG reports ongoing guerrilla actions and Turkish military operations 

  HPG announced that guerrillas carried out actions in Şırnak and Hakkari, and the Turkish army launched an operation in Şırnak’s Cudi region.
• Rojava representatives meet with the HDP committee in Hewler 

  Democratic Autonomy Administration representatives for South Kurdistan met with the HDP committee in Hewler.
• Footage of the fourth Turkish tank destroyed in Manbij 

  Manbij Military Council Press Office released the footage of the fourth Turkish tank destroyed in Manbij, in the village of Sheikh Nasir to the west of the Manbij city.
• Arrested Co-mayor Ahmet Türk: We will not bow down 

  Ahmet Türk said "We lived through September 12 and the 90s, we did not bow down then and will not bow down now."
• Trial of HDP Co-chair Demirtaş held in Mardin 

  HDP Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş’s trial for “openly disparaging the state” over his comments in Cizre has started in the Mardin Criminal Court.
• Co-mayor of Kızıltepe detained 

  Co-mayor of Mardin's Kızıltepe district, İsmail Ası, has been taken into custody during a police raid on the municipality building Friday morning.
• AKP instructs banks: No loans for workers of DBP municipalities 

  Implementing the total dirty war concept against the Kurdish people, the AKP regime is preventing the workers in the usurped DBP municipalities from taking out loans.
• SDF: We are ready to respond to the attacks of Turkey and gang groups 

  SDF General Command announced that they were ready to support Manbij Military Council and respond if the Turkish army and its affiliate gang groups continue their attacks.
• Mardin Co-mayor Ahmet Türk arrested 

  Mardin Metropolitan Municipality Co-mayor Ahmet Türk has been arrested.
• Another Turkish tank destroyed in Manbij 

  Another tank of the invading Turkish army has been destroyed in Manbij.
• Death toll in copper mine landslide in Siirt rises to 8 

  The death toll is rising in the landslide in a copper mine in Siirt’s Şirvan district.
• Turkish army bombing villages in Manbij 

  Invading Turkish army is bombing the villages of Medîq, Boxaz and Ulaşlî in Manbij city.
• Guerrillas destroy a Turkish tank in Çukurca 

  1 tank of the Turkish army was destroyed and 2 soldiers were killed as a result of an action by HPG/YJA Star guerrillas near Martyr Zeki hill in Çukurca.
• HDP MP: 50 thousand people now homeless in Şırnak 

  HDP MP Aslan said the 7 neighborhoods which were home to 80% of the population have been completely torn to the ground and called on everybody to show solidarity with Şırnak.
• Shehba Assembly calls for action against Turkish invasion 

  Shehba Assembly condemned the Turkish state's attacks on Shehba and Manbij, calling on revolutionary forces to act and the international community to put pressure on Turkey.
• Co-mayor of Bitlis taken into custody 

  Co-mayor of Bitlis Municipality Hüseyin Olan has been taken into custody.
• Ahmet Türk referred to court after three days in custody 

  Mardin Metropolitan Municipality Co-mayor Ahmet Türk was detained in line with the political genocide operations and he is now referred to court.
• Turkish attacks on villages of Manbij continue 

  Turkish state forces continue their attacks on villages in Manbij in an effort to eliminate the gains of the Kurds and other peoples against gang groups.
• Mother of Uğur Kaymaz dismissed on the anniversary of her son's murder 

  Makbule Kaymaz, mother of Uğur Kaymaz who was killed by Turkish state forces in 2004, has been dismissed with a decree law on the anniversary of her son's murder.
• Dersim co-mayors and former mayor transferred to Kocaeli prison 

  Dersim Municipality Co-mayors Nurhayat Altun and Mehmet Ali Bul, and former mayor Edibe Şahin have been transferred to Kocaeli No 1 F Type Prison today.
• At least 11 soldiers killed in Şemzinan 

  HPG/YJA Star guerrillas targeted the soldiers participating in an operation in Şemzinan on November 22, which left at least 11 soldiers of the Turkish army dead.
• Increased military activity in Silopi 

  Reports are coming through that a large military dispatch has started in yesterday evening hours to the border gate in Silopi. Soldiers have been positioned in three schools in the district.
• One year later: Tahir Elçi is still there 

  It has been exactly one year since Amed Bar Association Chair Tahir Elçi’s death. But in this year, as expected, no perpetrators have been put on trial, evidence of vital importance was either damaged or never surfaced.
• Another Turkish tank destroyed in Manbij 

  Manbij Military Council fighters have destroyed another tank of the Turkish army.