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• Nobel Prize Laureates urge Turkey to end the isolation 

  50 Nobel Prize Laureates call on Turkey to end solitary confinement of Abdullah Öcalan and other political prisoners.
• Google supports project for Kurdish Wikipedia 

  Wikipedia’s new project to boost Kurmanji dialect of Kurdish.
• Fuel theft puts Mexican government to the test 

  The explosion, and subsequent fire of a long section of the pipeline left at least 96 people dead and more than 200 injured.
• Scotland towards a second referendum on independence? 

  Nicola Sturgeon said Scottish Nationalist Party will present proposals in a few weeks of a possible new Independence referendum.
• Yazidi community in diaspora in solidarity with hunger strikers 

  Yazidi community representatives: We urge the CPT, the United Nations, and the European Court of Human Rights to not to be partners in Turkey’s crimes against humanity.
• DBP: The government should meet hunger strikers’ demands 

  “Kurdistan and Turkey should put pressure on the AKP government to meet the demands of the people. The AKP should abandon this isolation policy”, said the DBP.
• MPs call on Merkel to “put political pressure on Ankara” 

  Kurdish-German MPs of Die Linke Ozdemir, Sommer and Akbulut said they are in solidarity with Leyla Guven on her hunger strike and called on the Berlin government to put political pressure on Ankara to end the isolation in Imrali.
• Alevis in Dortmund go on hunger strike 

  The Alevi association (DAKME) of Dortmund announced that some of its members will go on hunger strike to support Leyla Güven.
• Actions for Leyla Güven in Berlin and London 

  DTK co-chair and HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven has been on hunger strike for 77 days.
• Visitors embraced hunger strikers in Strasbourg  

  Visitors continued to flock on Wednesday to commend hunger strikers in Strasbourg.
• Turkish air strike kills civilians in South Kurdistan 

  The Turkish state’s genocidal attacks against the Kurdish people and their lands continue increasingly.
• French left-wing leader calls for action for hunger strikers 

  Jean Luc Mélenchon, leader of the left-wing opposition umbrella party La France Insoumise (“Unbowing France”) gave a speech in the National Parliament and called on the government to take action for Guven and other hunger strike activists.
• Italian former political prisoner writes to Leyla Güven 

  "Having personally spent a number of years in US federal prisons, and some of those in isolation, I fully understand the necessity to break the silence around Ocalan's condition," said Italian former political prisoner in her letter to Leyla Güven.
• Political prisoners of 26 years go on hunger strike  

  Huseyin Duman and another political prisoner in the Burhaniye Type T Closed Prison started a hunger strike 9 days ago.
• HDP officials’ protest for Guven in front of the CoE on day 2 

  Elected HDP officials in exile issued a call for action in front of the CoE on the second day of their demonstration to support Leyla Guven, who has been on a hunger strike for 77 days against the isolation.
• Swedish Left Party former leader supports Leyla Guven 

  Former leader of the Swedish Left Party Lars Ohly said, “We support Leyla Guven who is fighting for an end to the isolation against Ocalan.”
• State of the media in Turkey discussed in PACE 

  AKP members in the PACE argued, like always, that Turkey doesn’t have such issues. But several MPs pointed out the pressure the media faces in 47 countries, starting with Turkey, Russia, Azerbaijan and Ukraine.
• Swedish MPs in solidarity with Leyla Güven 

  More politicians from Sweden expressed solidarity with Leyla Güven.
• HDP deputies and politicians urged Europe to act 

  HDP politicians in exile called on Europe to take immediate action against the isolation regime imposed upon Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• German Radical Left: Internationalism is not a crime 

  Five internationalist Italian activists who have been in Rojava faced repressive measures as police asked Court to decide on expulsion orders and special surveillance.
• Kurdish and French people visited hunger strikers in Strasbourg 

  Solidarity with hunger strike actions against isolation continues.
• Academics for Peace visited hunger strikers in Strasbourg 

  Solidarity with hunger strikes against the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan is growing.
• HDP building in Amed raided by the police 

  The Turkish state continues its repressive measures against the Kurdish people and the HDP.
• Basque party EH Bildu expressed solidarity with Leyla Guven 

  The Basque party EH Bildu expressed solidarity with Leyla Guven and all hunger strikers and demand freedom for Ocalan.
• Swedish parties and NGOs support Leyla Guven 

  International solidarity with Leyla Guven, on hunger strike for 67 days in protest at the isolation regime imposed on Abdullah Ocalan, is growing.