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• 4 special operation police killed in Cizre 

  Four special operation police were killed and one other was wounded in clashes in Cizre Sunday afternoon.
• Many detained in police crackdown in Amed 

  A number of people have been taken into custody in Amed as a result of the police crackdown on thousands who wanted to stage a march from Ofis to the central Sur district to break the siege ongoing in its 47th day.
• 10-year-old wounded in mortar attack in Cizre dies 

  Today's mortar attack in Cizre has killed a 10-year-old kid.
• YPS respond to intensified attacks by state forces in Cizre 

  Turkish forces have Sunday afternoon launched a huge wave of attacks on Cudi neighborhood in Şırnak's Cizre district where an onslaught by military and police forces continues in its 35th day.
• Three heavily wounded by mortar attack in Cizre 

  While popular resistance in the areas of self-rule endures on the 35th day of an onslaught in Şırnak's Cizre district, state forces have started to conduct mortar attacks on all neighborhoods Sunday afternoon.
• Police block and attack masses marching to Sur in Amed 

  Thousands have gathered in the main Kurdish city Amed today to join a march to the central Sur district in solidarity with the enduring resistance against a heavy military aggression by state forces for the 47th uninterrupted day.
• Mortar attack in Cizre leaves many wounded 

  In Cizre district of Şırnak where a military aggression continues for the 35th uninterrupted day, attacks against civilian areas are getting heavier every day.
• Ambulance couldn't reach the youth suffering wounds for days in Cizre 

  In Cizre district of Şırnak where an onslaught and siege remains in place for 35 days, local people are suffering from further violations of basic rights every passing day.
• Ongoing attacks by state forces kill two more civilians in Cizre 

  Two more civilians have died as a result of the onslaught by state forces in Cizre district of Şırnak where a heavy military aggression continues for the 34th uninterrupted day.
• HPG: Over 30 police killed in Çınar action 

  People's Defense Forces Press Office HPG-BIM said the expansive action against Çınar police HQ was conducted in retaliation to the savage execution of 12 guerrillas by the Turkish state in Van on 10 January.
• Chomsky replies to HDP's invitation to Kurdistan 

  American philosopher Professor Noam Chomsky has replied to the invitation of Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Şırnak MP Faysal Sarıyıldız to Kurdistan to see the situation at scene.
• Youth wounded in Cizre denied access to hospital for 16 hours 

  A youth who got wounded in yesterday evening's aggression in Cizre, remains in critical condition due to ongoing denial of ambulance access.
• 15th day of hunger strike by families to reclaim their children's bodies 

  Families are on hunger strike for two weeks to reclaim the bodies of their children killed by state forces in Amed's Sur district where a siege and onslaught remains in effect for the 45th uninterrupted day.
• Two killed in ongoing artillery attacks in Sur 

  Two people have been killed in ongoing attacks by state forces on the 45th day of the curfew and onslaught in Amed's central Sur district.
• Academics accused of basing on KCK's instruction published by ANF 

  Turkish police and judiciary has launched an operation against academics who signed a declaration of peace against the AKP government's ongoing war against civilian population in the Kurdish region.
• One killed, five wounded in mortar attack by state forces in Cizre 

  In Cizre district of Şırnak where a siege and curfew continues for 33 uninterrupted days, state forces continue conducting artillery strikes on neighborhoods protected by popular resistance led by youths.
• Political prisoners in Siirt start hunger strike against AKP's war on Kurds 

  PKK (Kurdistan Worker's Party) and PAJK (Kurdistan Women's Liberation Party, Partiya Azadiya Jin a Kurdistan) prisoners in Siirt E Type Closed Prison have gone on three-day hunger strike.
• Two kids wounded in Cizre yesterday die 

  Onslaught by state forces has claimed two more civilian lives in Cizre district of Şırnak where a state of siege continues for 33 days.
• Two murdered in a house raid by police in Siirt 

  Police forces conducted a raid on a house in Şeyh Mahmut Square in Siirt centre last night. Two people in the house were killed.
• Another youth killed by police in Cizre 

  Onslaught by state forces has claimed another civilian life in Cizre district of Şırnak where a state of siege continues for 32 days.
• Internationalist fighters in Rojava call on youth to join Bakur's resistance 

  Internationalist combatants fighting in the ranks of YPG/YPJ in Rojava have saluted the self-rule resistance in Bakur (North) Kurdistan, and called upon the youths to join the resistance alongside the YPS (Civil Defense Units) and guerrilla forces.
• HSM: 12 guerrillas in Van murdered execution style, they will be avenged 

  People's Defense Centre (HSM) Headquarters Command said 12 guerrillas in Van were apparently murdered execution style, and pointed to the probability of poisoning or fainting by gas as the cause of their neutralization in such a short time.
• Couple found murdered home in Cizre 

  Genocidal attacks by state forces are claiming more civilian lives in the 32nd day of a so-called curfew in Cizre district of Şırnak.
• Many detained in raids on DBP Erciş office and houses 

  While a massacre of civilians by state forces continues across the Kurdish region, operations of political genocide against Kurdish population and institutions are also going on.
• Whereabouts of man detained after executions in Kızıltepe unknown 

  Whereabouts of a civilian who was detained after the extrajudicial killing of 4 people in Kızıltepe 2 days ago, remains undisclosed.