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• Turkish jets shell guerrilla areas in South Kurdistan 

  Turkish jets conducted aerial strikes against the guerrilla-held Medya Defense Zones in South Kurdistan territory.
• State forces continue to attack people stuck in a basement in Cizre 

  As many as 30 slain and wounded people are stuck in a basement and waiting for an ambulance in Şırnak's Cizre district for seven days now. Six of them have bled to death since.
• Wounded trapped in basement in Cizre still under fire 

  The basement where 19 wounded and 6 slain people remain trapped for 6 days, is still under fire of Turkish forces deployed in Cizre's Cudi neighborhood.
• YPS: 17 members of Turkish forces killed in Sur yesterday 

  YPS General Coordination said Civil Defense Units mounted historic resistance against the all-out war of the AKP government targeting the areas of self-rule in North Kurdistan.
• Sixth death in the sixth day of the torture in basement 

  As the onslaught under the name of curfew continues in Şırnak's Cizre district for the 46th uninterrupted day, local people are suffering a never-ending violation of their basic rights, including the right to life and health.
• Turkish forces attack thousands marching from Nusaybin to Cizre 

  The Botan March to Şırnak's Cizre district organised by the DBP (Party of Democratic Regions) has kicked off from Mardin's Nusaybin district today.
• Still no connection with the wounded trapped in a basement in Cizre 

  As the atrocity of Turkish forces is getting heavier in Kurdish towns under curfew, 28 people who are trapped in a basement in Cudi neighborhood for 6 days continue suffering a deliberate torture.
• No contact for 5 hours with the wounded trapped in basement in Cizre 

  28 slain and wounded people who remain stuck in a basement for 5 days are yet to be reached.
• The wounded trapped in basement called to “surrender” 

  HDP Şırnak deputy Faysal Sarıyıldız stated that Turkish forces tried to prepare the ground for a massacre in the basement where 28 slain and wounded people remain trapped for 5 days.
• Stairs of the basement collapse under ongoing fire by state forces 

  It is now the fifth day of the atrocity against 28 wounded people who remain trapped in a basement in Şırnak's Cizre district. While five of them have died due to loss of blood since, the others remain under a threat of imminent massacre.
• Sarıyıldız: The wounded trapped in basement facing a plot 

  Endless efforts have finally forced Turkish authorities to allow ambulances to Cizre's Cudi neighborhood where 28 slain and wounded people remain trapped in a basement for the past 5 days.
• Turkish forces suffer casualties amid heavy clashes in Sur 

  Clashes are getting heavier in Amed's central Sur district where state forces have intensified their attacks upon the extension of the curfew to more areas earlier today.
• Turkish soldiers kill a woman from Rojava at border 

  Soldiers affiliated to the Turkish army have murdered an Arab woman from Rojava at the border last night.
• Curfew extended to 5 more neighborhoods in Sur 

  The state of siege ongoing in Amed's central Sur district since 2 December 2015, has been extended to 5 more neighborhoods today.
• Another death among the wounded stuck in a basement in Cizre 

  As the onslaught under the name of curfew continues in Şırnak's Cizre district for the 45th uninterrupted day, local people are suffering a never-ending violation of their basic rights, including the right to life.
• People forced into migration as attacks get heavier in Sur 

  In Sur district of Amed where a state of siege continues for 57 days now, Turkish security members are forcing the people to leave neighborhoods targeted by their side.
• Building where 24 injured remain trapped in Cizre targeted by mortar fire 

  As the state of siege continues in Şırnak's Cizre district in its 45th day, arbitrary and deliberate attacks and obstructions by Turkish state forces are causing further right violations every passing hour and day.
• 12th EUTCC Conference at EP witnesses calls to end the ongoing conflict 

  The 12th International Conference on “The EU, Turkey and the Kurds” hosted by the European Union Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC) has kicked off at the European Parliament earlier today.
• HSM: Turkish state murders civilians portraying them as 'PKK members' 

  HSM pointed out that the Turkish state killed civilians in North Kurdistan and spread the lie “We killed PKK members”, asking;“If AKP's state forces killed 711 PKK members as they claim, where are the bodies of these people?”.
• No ambulance but bombs for the trapped civilians with wounds in Cizre 

  The building where 28 injured and slain people remain trapped in Cizre for the past 4 days, has once again come under intensified fire of Turkish forces Tuesday noon.
• Ongoing aggression kills another youth in Cizre 

  In Cizre district of Şırnak where a state of siege continues for 44 days now, heavy artillery aggression by tanks and armored vehicles against Cudi neighborhood is going on uninterruptedly.
• Condition of 25 injured trapped in a basement in Cizre deteriorating 

  25 injured people who remain trapped in a basement in Cizre are still being hindered from access to hospital and treatment they are in urgent need of.
• Another youth dies of blood loss in Sur 

  Yet another death has been reported in Amed's central Sur district where an onslaught by Turkish military and police forces continues for the 55th uninterrupted day.
• Another death among the wounded trapped in a basement in Cizre 

  Turkish state's all-out war against Kurdish people has claimed yet another youth's life in Şırnak's Cizre district where a state of siege continues for 43 days.
• PKK and PAJK prisoners go on three-day hunger strike 

  PKK and PAJK prisoners in Turkish jails will go on a three-day hunger strike in protest at the isolation of Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan and genocidal attacks targeting civilian people in North Kurdistan.