ECOLOGY

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• Make Rojava Green Again held 3rd international gathering in Italy 

  The "Make Rojava Green Again" campaign held its third international meeting in the Val de Susa in Italy, discussing the possibilities for closer cooperation of ecology movements.
• Xakurke: With F-16 jets against animals and plants 

  The Turkish army not only kills civilians in their invasion of southern Kurdistan, but also largely destroys nature in Xakurke in an attempt to depopulate the region.
• Field fire in Kobanê reaches the homes of villagers 

  The field fires in the east of Kobanê have reached the homes and gardens of the local population.
• Turkish regime cuts down 1.000 olive trees in Yazidi village 

  Yazidis forced to leave their homes due to the Turkish occupation in Afrin issued a statement in the Serdem Camp in Shehba.
• Call to join the “big dip” for Hasankeyf on 14 July 

  On the second Sunday of July each year, people in Europe and beyond join the “big dip” into rivers and lakes as part of a campaign for the conservation and renaturation of our freshwater ecosystems.
• Turkish army attacks against nature 

  The Turkish army has been attacking the natural environment in the Bradost region.
• Signature campaign for Hasankeyf 

  Under the slogan “Hasankeyf is our culture, Tigris our nature” people from Hasankeyf, Iraq, Rojava and nine European countries called for the Turkish government not to start filling the Ilisu Dam reservoir, as was announced for 10th June, 2019.
• Fire erupted in a village of Kobanê 

  Northern and Eastern Syrian Federation, with its vast swathes of cultivated lands, has suffered several suspicious fires in recent weeks.
• Over 15 acres of land and 500 trees burned down in Kelar 

  15 acres of land and 500 trees were burned in fire caused in the forest area in Kelar, Germiyan, in South Kurdistan.
• Letter to UK Foreign Secretary about Hasankeyf 

  Peace in Kurdistan Campaign is among the promoters of the initiative. 
• Fire in Tirbespiyê destroys 10,000 hectares of cultivated land 

  Field fires in the Tirbespiyê region of northern Syria have destroyed 10,000 hectares of cultivated land.
• Environmentalists: Turkish bombardments destroy ecosystem 

  Environmental activists from South Kurdistan strongly protest against the bombing of South Kurdistan’s mountain regions by the Turkish military: "If this goes on, the entire population will be displaced and no animal will survive."
• Turkish soldiers start fires in Serekaniye 

  Turkish soldiers started fires in Serekaniye, while a large scale fire broke out in Tirbespiye on an unknown cause.
• Cultivated lands protected by HPC 

  HPC has increased patrols and the number of checkpoints against the suspicious fires that have been breaking out in cultivated lands recently.
• People of Afrin make Shehba greener 

  The people of Afrin are trying to continue with their lives in Shehba and have set up a nursery garden to plant the empty plots, with support from the Agriculture Committee.
• The HDP kitchen: A mix of foods, languages and ecology 

  The HDP people emphasized that they will be putting in practice this research in every field.
• Turkish forces set fire to agricultural lands in Dirbêsiyê 

  The Turkish invasion army continues its crimes in northern Syria.
• Call from Hasankeyf: It's not too late! 

  The people of Hasankeyf call for support. The 12,000-year-old settlement on the Tigris River is to be flooded by the Ilısu Dam project.
• Artists join the call to save Hasankeyf 

  The Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive and the Mesopotamia Ecology Movement issued a call to movements and activists worldwide to join the 3rd Global Day of Action for the defense of the 12,000 year old town Hasankeyf and the Tigris River on June 7 and 8.
• Call to join 3rd Global Day of Action to defend Hasankeyf 

  On June 7 and 8 actions are planned in dozens of cities in Turkey and across Mesopotamia.
• Julie Ward MEP expresses concern to Erdoğan for Ilisu dam 

  Julie Ward MEP has written a letter to President Erdoğan a few days before the Turkish government will start filling the Ilisu Dam reservoir.
• Turkish state allied gangs set fire to cultivated lands in Afrin 

  The invading Turkish state and their allied gang groups have set fire to thousands of trees and hectares of cultivated land in Afrin.
• Call for global action for ancient Hasankeyf on 7 and 8 June 

  The Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive and Mesopotamia Ecology Movement called on social movements, NGO's, activists to join the 3rd Global Day of Action for the defense of the 12,000 year old town Hasankeyf and the Tigris River on 7 and 8 June.
• Turkey deliberately burned 11,000 hectares of lands in Afrin 

  Forests are intentionally set on fire in Turkish state-occupied Afrin. It has been reported that at least 11,000 hectares have been burned to date.
• Open letter on the ecological revolution in Rojava 

  “We also call for support for the ecological revolution in Rojava. We are referring mainly to the internationalist community of Rojava with its campaign Make Rojava Green Again.”