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• Rojava Canton Representation Office to open in Moscow tomorrow 

  Rojava Autonomous Administration Representation Office will be opened at 15:00 tomorrow in Russia’s capital city Moscow.
• 16-year-old murdered in police crackdown in Amed 

  Police forces staged a crackdown on masses staging a march in Amed province in protest at the Cizre massacre, killing a 16-year-old youth by the name of Mahmut Bulak.
• Spoliation on Cizre massacre continues 

  AKP government and its media continue to spoil the evidence on the Cizre massacre that targeted the basement where 52 wounded people and 10 dead bodies had been awaiting evacuation. Details cannot be clarified due to the ongoing siege.
• State forces in Sur announce imminent airstrikes 

  In Amed's central Sur district where popular resistance endures genocidal attacks for 70 days, heavy artillery aggression by state forces against the areas of self-rule continues ceaselessly.
• Mehmet Tunç believed to be among those massacred in Cizre 

  Cizre Peoples’ Assembly Co-President Mehmet Tunç, who informed the world about Cizre massacre from the basement of savagery, is believed to be among the massacred civilians.
• KCK calls upon Kurdish people to rise up against massacres 

  KCK Executive Council Co-Presidency called upon the Kurdish people to turn everywhere into an area of uprising and resistance, mainly in the provinces of Amed, Wan, Batman and Turkish metropolitan areas.
• Sarıyıldız: Humanity and fraternity massacred in Cizre 

  "We have come to the point of feeling ashamed to speak of peace, our most blessed term, to the face of the people", said HDP deputy Faysal Sarıyıldız who is in the town of Cizre since the beginning of the most recent curfew.
• 25 detained in police crackdown on demonstrators for Cizre in Paris 

  Kurds and revolutionary organisations from Turkey staged a demo outside the Turkish Embassy in French capital Paris today in protest at the massacre of dozens in the Kurdish town of Cizre.
• KCK on Cizre massacre: Our martyrs will be avenged 

  KCK Executive Council Co-Presidency described the massacre of wounded people in Cizre as a savage revenge operation of a genocidal mentality, and stressed that its freedom forces would avenge the death of every martyr.
• Efforts to cover up the dimension of Cizre massacre 

  Turkish state forces are implementing an all-out blackout across the town of Cizre in the wake of the massacre in which at least 30 people have been reported killed.
• KNK calls for solidarity with the Kurdish people 

  Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) has released a statement denouncing the Turkish state's massacre of tens of Kurdish civilians reportedly with chemical weapons.
• Kamuran Yüksek: Tens of people massacred in Cizre - UPDATE 

  DBP Co-President Kamuran Yüksek said that state forces attacked both of the basements in Cizre where wounded people had been waiting to be evacuated.
• French police attack demo for Cizre in Paris 

  As Kurds across Europe are taking to the streets to protest the Cizre massacre, hundreds have gathered outside the Turkish Embassy in the French capital Paris.
• HDP and DBP call for all-out resistance against Cizre massacre 

  Amed branches of HDP and DBP called for all-out resistance against the Turkish state’s massacre in Cizre, and warned that bigger massacres could take place unless people resist the ongoing savagery.
• DBP co-chair Yüksek: Dozens of people executed in Cizre 

  DBP co-chair Kamuran Yüksek said health teams that went to the house, which is known as the second one where 60 people were stuck in Cizre, saw dozens of lifeless bodies inside.
• Families of basement victims: The state should be afraid of us 

  Families of the people victimised in the basement of savagery expressed their anger at the Turkish government and the president Tayyip Erdoğan, and warned that everyone would be harmed if their children were harmed.
• Sarıyıldız: Figures won't alter the nature of this atrocity 

  HDP Şırnak deputy Faysal Sarıyıldız said soldiers and special operation police went to Cizre Municipality earlier today and took two municipal ambulances to Cudi neighborhood to retrieve the bodies.
• Şırnak Governor's Office releases statement on "Cizre operation" 

  While details are yet not clear regarding the mass killing of dozens in Cudi neighborhood of Cizre last night, Şırnak Governor's Office has released a statement reporting an operation by Turkish forces in the town.
• Sarıyıldız: Some 30 burned bodies found in a building in Cizre 

  HDP Şırnak deputy Faysal Sarıyıldız who is in the town of Cizre has confirmed that state forces massacred dozens of people trapped in a building last night.
• KCD-E issues urgent call for action by Kurds in Europe 

  KCD-E has issued an urgent call to Kurds living in Europe to pour out into the streets in protest at the massacre of 60 people by Turkish forces in Şırnak's Cizre district.
• Police bring bodies to Cizre hospital after reports of mass killing 

  Cizre State Hospital staff has been locked in a room as police brought bodies of slain people after reports of killing of 60 people in a basement as a result of an operation by Turkish forces.
• Sarıyıldız: Reports of mass killing in Cizre came after huge explosions 

  HDP Şırnak deputy Faysal Sarıyıldız said reports on the killing of 60 people in a basement in Cizre came in the wake of two very huge blasts in the area Sunday evening.
• State-run TRT TV says 60 killed in a basement in Cizre 

  Turkish state-run TV channel TRT reported that nearly 60 people were killed in an operation in Şırnak's Cizre district
• Three minors heavily wounded by police in Van 

  Three minors aged 13 and 16 were heavily wounded as a result of gunfire by police in Xaçort (Hacıbekir) neighborhood of Van's central İpekyolu district.
• TİHV: 224 civilians massacred in the Kurdish region since August 

  In its report on the Turkish state’s genocidal attacks in Northern Kurdistan, Human Rights Foundation of Turkey (TİHV) stated that 224 civilians have been massacred since August 16, 2015.