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• Volunteer health workers on the front line 

  Internationalist fighters, who have all come from different countries and are taking part in the 'Great Battle', are volunteering in Raqqa to apply first aid to the fighters if needed.
• Did the Turkish state withdraw MİT operatives within ISIS? 

  ISIS receiving deadly blows in Syria and Iraq has created panic in Ankara. Reports say the MİT operatives guiding ISIS are being withdrawn. Other reports claim some of these people who know about the relationship between Turkey and ISIS have been executed
• Spy Sayan confesses working for MİT at the first hearing 

  During his first hearing in Hamburg today, spy Mehmet Fatih Sayan has confessed working for Turkish intelligence agency MİT, and being in contact with two people from Ankara Police Directorate’s Anti-Terror Unit.
• First 9 days of the Cizre resistance 

  It has been two years since the Turkish state set loose all the elements of war in Cizre accompanied with conventional weapons and came up against the resistance of a group of young people in the 9-day long curfew.
• Öcalan: Kurdish issue is now an international issue 

  HDP MP Dilek Öcalan stated that the colonialist mindset doesn’t pertain to anything in Kurdistan and said: “Fear won’t delay death. The Kurdish issue is now an international issue.”
• Onwards with journalism despite the regime 

  Journalist Ragıp Duran stated that as journalists they will continue to do what their job requires, whatever the regime may be.
• Waste from 136 villages and 9 districts dumped into Van Lake 

  The sewage of 136 villages and 9 districts of Van is dumped into Lake Van and therefore many living species that used to live in the Van Lake and its coastland have been extinct, ecologist Fatih Sahin said.
• Humanity lost in Ilısu and Xingu 

  The documentary “Democracy” shows how ancient peoples, cultures and wild life will be destroyed with the dams to be built in Hasankeyf and Xingu.
• Mother and son in the guerrilla ranks 

  Once they were mother and son, and then they became two brave comrades who held on tight to one another within the Kurdish Freedom Struggle.
• In search for two long lost sons… 

  60-year-old Remziye Bayram is a regular participant of communal vigil every Saturday in front of the Human Rights Statue in Diyarbakir.
• Academic removed from duty will not leave his students 

  Expelled from his academic position, Prof. Emrah Günok said: “It’s time for us to do our duty. Even if I have just one student left, I will continue o teach at the Open Academy.”
• ‘Sooner or later there will be peace talks’ 

  FARC is entering legal politics and becoming a political party. We spoke with writer Metin Yeğin about the Colombian peace process on World Peace Day.
• Ankara demands captured MİT administrators, PKK refuses 

  The MİT administrators travelled to the Southern Kurdistan region to attempt abductions and assassinations against Cemil Bayık and several other PKK administrators. They were in communication with local MİT units in the region.
• Iran and Turkey after new plans 

  MSD Co-chair Ilham Ehmed stated that: “Turkey and Iran are in a competition, they are fighting to get ahead, but they act together in some issues as well.”
• KCK’s Hozat: Nobody is against an independent Kurdistan 

  “There is nobody actually against an independent Kurdistan. Who wouldn’t want an independent Kurdistan? We have waged a great struggle for an independent, free Kurdistan for 45 years. Our leader is paying the price of independent Kurdistan in Imrali now.”
• Bayık: MİT’s conspiracy voided, Southern forces should be careful 

  On the Turkish MİT being caught while preparing for a large scale attack on the PKK, Bayık said: “This conspiracy has been hit and voided.” Bayık stated that Southern forces should be careful in the face of the Turkish state’s tricks.
• KCK's Xerîb confirms their capture of Turkish MİT operatives 

  KCK's Xerîb confirmed that they have captured some MİT operatives in Southern Kurdistan, saying: "Turkey should be glad that we haven’t shown the people we captured in the media yet. We could have put sacks over their heads and paraded them to the press."
• Revolutionary Forces Commander: Turkey is trying to seize Idlib 

  Revolutionary Forces General Commander Haci Ehmed stated that the Turkish state is trying to seize Idlib.
• PYD’s Muslim: Turkey will hit rough weather if they attack Efrîn 

  PYD Co-chair Muslim stated that ISIS is surrounded in Raqqa and their ties to the outside have been completely severed. Muslim warned Turkey against an attack on Efrîn and said: “If they attack, it will be trouble for them! They will hit rough weather.”
• Who tricked the House of Lords? 

  We read a report by the British House of Lords Foreign Relations Commission on the Middle East. The analyses in the report included some serious faults.
• Hoppe: MİT is relying on mole officers in Germany 

  Journalist Jürgen Hoppe thinks MİT doesn’t get information from the German intelligence like in the past anymore, and that is why they are relying on moles inside German institutions, especially the police.
• KONGRA-GEL Co-chair: Isolation will be broken with resistance 

  KONGRA-GEL Co-chair Remzi Kartal stated that the isolation imposed upon the Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan can be broken and his freedom be achieved through a popular resistance.
• KCK’s Bayık: Raqqa will determine the future 

  “The future of Rojava and Northern Syria will mainly be determined with the liberation of Raqqa. The character Syria will have will take more shape.”
• Xelil: If ISIS is defeated in Raqqa, they won’t be able to resist 

  “Whoever liberates Raqqa will have wide say over what politics will develop. If ISIS is defeated in the city they dubbed their capital, they won’t have any ground to resist or hold on.”
• A day with SDF fighters amidst the siege in Raqqa 

  In Raqqa legends of unparalleled comradeship and self-sacrifice, that has grown with a deep sense of unity among the Kurdish and Arab fighters, are filling the pages of history.