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• European Greens to visit Cizre and Mardin 

  Officials from the Greens/European Free Alliance (Greens/EFA) and the German Green Party (Bündnis 90/Die Grünen) will pay a visit to Northern Kurdistan for talks serving a democratic resolution of the Kurdish question in Turkey.
• Images from Hesekê 

  A number of people have lost their lives in double bomb attacks in Hesekê city of West Kurdistan, Rojava, today afternoon.
• Police attack people marching to Sur 

  Turkish police forces have attacked the people marching in Amed today afternoon.
• Bomb attack in Hesekê leaves 13 dead 

  Rojava General Asayish Administration said in a written statement that today's bomb attack at Xişman Junction left 13 people dead.
• Kurdish workers targeted by racist attack in Bolu detained 

  Kurdish citizens in Turkish cities continue facing racist attacks on the excuse of slain soldiers whom AKP blatantly sacrifices for its own war against the Kurdish people, both the freedom movement and civilians.
• 13 detained as soldiers raid villages in Şırnak 

  Soldiers of the Turkish army conducted house raids in several villages of Şırnak early this morning.
• Resistance continues in Sur and Silvan districts of Amed 

  Siege and terror by Turkish police continues in Sur and Silvan districts of Amed since the imposition of a curfew by the Governor yesterday morning, to which people respond with resistance.
• People of Amed to march to Sur to break the blockade 

  People of Amed will march from Dağkapı to the central Sur district today noon to break the blockade by Turkish forces going on for one day.
• Cizre People's Assembly Co-President: People will never surrender 

  Cizre People's Assembly Co-President Mehmet Tunç stated that those trying to break the will of the people will definitively go down in defeat.
• Martyrs of Cizre resistance laid to rest 

  16 people who lost their lives as a result of heavy attacks by state forces in Şırnak's Cizre district were laid to rest yesterday.
• Child wounded in Kızıltepe dies 

  A 9-year-old child who got wounded as a result of an explosion in Mardin's Kızıltepe district yesterday, has lost his life.
• Curfew in three neighborhoods of Silvan 

  Following a crackdown by police forces in Amed's Silvan district this morning, a curfew has been imposed on the neighborhoods of Tekel, Konak and Mescit.
• Civilian from Rojava wounded in police attack in Sur 

  Attack by police forces in Amed's central Sur district continues since early this morning when Governor of Diyarbakır has declared a curfew.
• Curfew and attack by Turkish state forces in Amed's Sur district 

  Governor of Diyarbakır has declared a curfew on Amed's central Sur district, upon which police and special operation teams surrounded the district with armored vehicles at 05:00 local time this morning.
• Demirtaş: People of Cizre did not surrender 

  Speaking in Cizre today, HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş saluted the resistance of the people and called for a recommencement of the negotiations with Kurdish people’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Human shields in Lice attacked by soldiers, seven wounded 

  Turkish troops have opened artillery and mortar fire on human shield activists protesting the construction of a military post in Amed's Lice district.
• Cemetery of guerrillas shelled by Turkish jets 

  The Turkish state knows no bounds in attacks against PKK-held Medya Defense Zones in South Kurdistan territory.
• 25 human shields detained in Doğubayazıt 

  25 people, including Doğubayazıt co-mayor Rohat Özbay and DBP district branch co-chair Nuri Çelik, who started human shield action against the operation launched by Turkish troops in Ağrı yesterday, were detained.
• Another civilian death in Cizre 

  It came out that yet another civilian died in Cizre last night.
• Woman protesting state terror in Cizre murdered by police in Amed 

  Police forces attacked a group of demonstrators in the mainly Kurdish city Amed (Diyarbakır) yesterday evening.
• Sarıyıldız: Cizre heavily wounded but holds head high 

  The curfew in Şırnak's Cizre district, in effect since September 4, has been lifted today as a result of the resistance by local people despite massacres, and the solidarity with this resistance across Northern Kurdistan for the last 3 days.
• Co-mayor of Cizre removed from post 

  Co-mayor of Şırnak's Cizre district, Leyla İmret, has been removed from her post by the Interior Ministry on alleged grounds of inciting people to armed uprising and terror propaganda.
• Another civilian murdered by police in Cizre 

  Attacks by Turkish state forces against civilians continued yesterday evening and night as well despite the announcement by the Governor that the curfew which remains in effect since September 4th would be lifted as of this morning.
• Effective actions by guerrillas continue 

  People’s Defense Forces (HPG) Press Office has reported that 5 soldiers and 2 policemen were killed, while one soldier was wounded in the ongoing actions by HPG and YJA Star guerrillas against the war policies of the AKP.
• Turkish jets shelled Medya Defense Zones 

  People’s Defense Forces (HPG) has reported that aerial activities of Turkish aircraft over PKK-held Medya Defense Zones continue.