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• Internet connections cut again in Northern Kurdistan 

  Mobile and local internet connections have been cut across Northern Kurdistan in order to prevent the dissemination of protests in the aftermath of the arrest of Amed Co-Mayors.
• Amed Municipality employees stop working 

  Amed Metropolitan Municipality employees stopped working after their Co-mayors and Unit Directors were detained.
• Police raid KJA headquarters in Amed 

  Police forces have raided the headquarters of Free Women's Congress (KJA) in Amed.
• Police attack the people and deputies in front of Amed Municipality again 

  Police teams have attacked the people that gathered in front of Amed Municipality. HDP deputies that tried to prevent the attack were also battered.
• Indefinite sit-in in front of Amed Municipality 

  The resistance of the people continues in front of Amed Municipality, the co-mayors of which were taken into custody last night.
• Police assault on Feleknas Uca and Ceylan Bağrıyanık in Amed 

  HDP Amed MP Feleknas Uca and Imralı delegation member Ceylan Bağrıyanık were dragged and assaulted by police.
• Kışanak detained for speaking at DTK Congress 

  According to the Office of the Chief Public Prosecutor , Amed Co-Mayors Gültan Kışanak and Fırat Anlı were detained for the democratic politics they have been doing.
• HDP Group Deputy Chair: We will not leave the municipality of Amed 

  HDP Group Deputy Chair Çağlar Demirel said they will resist to the end together with the people in front of the Amed Municipality.
• Til Mîdîq village in Shehba region liberated 

  The village of Til Mîdîq to the southeast of the Shehba Dam has been liberated.
• KJA Spokeswoman among those detained in front of Amed Municipality 

  Police forces that attacked the people in front of Amed Municipality have detained a group of people including KJA Spokeswoman Ayla Akat Ata.
• KCK: All Kurdish people should rise up against attacks on their will 

  KCK: The AKP government’s attack on Amed Co-Mayors is an attack on the historic soul and will of Amed. As the symbol of all Kurdish people’s will for a free and democratic life, the people of Amed should rise up.
• Police batter the people and HDP deputies in front of Amed Municipality 

  Police attacked the people and HDP deputies that have gathered in front of Amed Municipality since last night to protest the detention of co-mayors and raid on the municipality.
• KNK: Detention of mayors an attack on Kurdish democratic self-rule 

  Kurdistan National Congress described the detention of Kurdish mayors as an attack on Kurdish democratic self-rule.
• HDP co-chairs to join the protest against the detention of co-mayors 

  HDP co-chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ will also join the mass protest to be staged in Amed city today against the detention co-mayors.
• GABB calls for immediate action against the AKP targeting municipalities 

  The Union of Southeastern Anatolia Region Municipalities called on international community to act immediately to protest the anti-democratic and unjust policy waged by the Turkish government targeting Kurdish municipalities and their co-mayors.
• HDP: Erdoğan-AKP rule will not be able to confiscate people’s will 

  HDP stated that Erdoğan-AKP rule continues to breach people’s will with sense of vengeance, and that this hostile approach towards political will of Kurdish people aims at dissolving democratic politics and democratic opposition.
• Amed Municipality co-mayors Kışanak and Anlı detained - UPDATE 

  Amed Metropolitan Municipality Co-mayors Gültan Kışanak and Fırat Anlı were taken into custody by anti-terror police teams in Amed city late Tuesday evening.
• Co-mayors of Amed Metropolitan Municipality detained 

  Amed Metropolitan Municipality Co-mayors Gültan Kışanak and Fırat Anlı were taken into custody by anti-terror police teams in Amed city.
• Turkish-backed gangs attack Revolutionary Forces with chemicals 

  Gang groups backed by the occupant Turkish army are bombing the positions of Revolutionary Forces in Til Madiq village with chemicals.
• Jabhat al-Akrad fighters: The Turkish state can’t make us step back 

  Jabhat al-Akrad fighters declared that they will increase the fight against the Turkish state’s attacks.
• Two reporters for DIHA detained in Suruç 

  Two reporters for Dicle News Agency (DIHA) have been detained by police in Urfa's Suruç district.
• SNC-affiliated gangs attack villages in Efrîn's Shera district 

  Turkish backed gang groups affiliated to the so-called Syrian National Coalition are conducting artillery attacks on villages in Shera district of Efrîn.
• Turkish soldiers kill another civilian from Rojava on the border 

  Soldiers of Turkish army shot and killed a young man named Elî Temî on the border with Rojava, West Kurdistan.
• The state threatens to "burn the people together with the tents" in Şırnak 

  HPD MP İrmez said the families who refused to leave Şırnak and set up tents on the perimeter of the city were forced to move, that the state threatened the people with “burning them together with the tents”.
• HPG statement on Kirkuk 

  HPG issued a statement on the clashes in Kirkuk and said: “The Kurdistan Guerilla is responsible for the safety of our people and the peoples of the region against all possible attacks and will always be ready to fulfill this duty.”