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• YPG Spokesman: We will crown 2017 with victory 

  2016 was a challenging year of struggle for Rojava against savage gang groups, ISIS in the first place. This struggle was led by YPG and YPJ.
• Guerrillas: 2017 will be the year of Kurdish people's freedom 

  HPG and YJA Star guerrillas underlined that 2017 will be the year of freedom for the Kurdish people, Öcalan and the peoples in the Middle East.
• A mother from Raqqa asks SDF fighters: Will you save my children too? 

  The first question of the al Khanim family, one of the many families liberated during the second phase of the Wrath of Euphrates Operation, was “Will you save our children too?”
• Xelil: Our gains will evolve into an alternative national stance in 2017 

  TEV-DEM administrator Aldar Xelil: “Today our path is so much wider and we have created a wide societal base. And this wide societal base, we are hoping, will stop war and tyranny in all of Syria.
• Erdoğan’s Kurdish gangs 

  Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan doesn’t only have gangs made up of secret soldiers brought from Eastern Turkistan and Kyrgzystan and Central Asia. He also has a secret gang of Kurds.
• İlham Ehmed: Trilateral summit won't resolve the problem in Syria 

  Syrian Democratic Council (MSD) Co-chair İlham Ehmed evaluated the Moscow summit as a one-sided assembly of forces effective in Syria that does not include the opposition and thus cannot offer a solution.
• Bayık: Karlov’s killer might be from the “Ottoman Hearths” 

  KCK Executive Council Co-chair Cemil Bayık penned an article on Russian Ambassador Andrey Karlov who was assassinated in the Turkish capital Ankara. Bayık condemned the murder and sent condolences to the Russian people.
• Kalkan: Erdoğan’s 'national mobilization' is a call for Kurdish genocide 

  PKK Executive Committee Member Duran Kalkan stated that Erdoğan’s comments on national mobilization are very dangerous and said: “Erdoğan called for a Kurdish genocide. Everybody should take precautions.”
• Karayılan: AKP government responsible for the bloodshed 

  PKK's Murat Karayılan stressed that if Erdoğan had not rejected Dolmabahçe agreement and ended the negotiations, a disarmament congress would have been organized, adding: “In other words, Erdoğan ended a process of disarmament at its beginning.”
• Syriac Commander: We are marching towards Raqqa; the heart of ISIS 

  Syriac Military Council Commander Kino Gabriel stated that the operation to liberate Raqqa would determine the fate of the war in Syria.
• Three Kurdish women, Charlie Hebdo, and the November 13 Massacre 

  Some four years ago, on January 9, 2013, three revolutionary Kurdish women were murdered in the middle of Paris by shots to their heads. All three of them took three bullets in the head each. It was the middle of the day.
• Erdoğan has officially started a civil war 

  Erdoğan first said “attack with the spirit of mobilization.” Then, he said “we must be ruthless, since we are waging the second war of independence.”
• Karayılan warns that targeting Öcalan will be disastrous for Turkey 

  PKK Executive Committee Member Murat Karayılan said 'Targeting Öcalan will initiate a social uprising that will be based on a spirit of social detachment, and the Battalion of Immortals – which is organized for this scenario – will take action.
• The war in Manbij can draw in all international powers 

  The war in Manbij has the potential to draw in all international powers. The resistance of Manbij Military Council fighters is what can change the result of this war.
• Bayık: Kurds should not live with the Turkish state anymore 

  KCK's Cemil Bayık remarked that Kurds have reached the stage of freedom, and called on the Kurdish people to sever all their ties with the system of the Turkish state.
• Antep is the second stronghold for ISIS after Raqqa 

  HDP’s Mahmut Toğrul said that in return for the AKP regime’s alliance with ISIS gangs over anti-Kurdish sentiment, ISIS uses Antep as the second stronghold after Raqqa.
• Guerrillas: PKK is the name of freedom and hope in the Middle East 

  HPG and YJA Star guerrillas celebrating the 39th anniversary of the PKK say, “PKK has increased its struggle since the day it was founded, and has become the hope of both the Kurdish people and the peoples of the Middle East.”
• What is happening in Bab and Manbij fronts, who is planning what? 

  Erdoğan has repeatedly stated in the last couple of days that they will “take Bab” and then turn towards Manbij. Erdoğan expressed these views as a result of some diplomatic and military preparations. But his plans are increasingly failing.
• Manbij residents: Our people's blood is on the Turkish state's hands 

  The people in liberated Manbij city react strongly against the attacks by the Turkish state and their allied gangs and come together around Manbij Military Council fighters.
• Turkish attacks on Rojava over the border increase 7 fold in one year 

  Since 2012, AKP has attempted to smother the Rojava Revolution through Kobanê to Efrîn by collaborating with several gang groups like ENKS, Ahrar Al Sham, Al Nusra Front and ISIS on a coordinator level.
• KODAR Co-chair: Creating a democratic front is a historical necessity 

  KODAR Co-chair Fuad Beritan stressed that recognition of the rights of people and democratization of Iran will increase the power of Iran in the region and around the globe, while the contrary will render Iran weak.
• Bayık: Let them come to Qandil, they'll experience their biggest defeat 

  Cemil Bayık: Turkey says they will launch an operation on Qandil. Let them come, if they can. Kurdish people won't welcome them with flowers. Turkey will probably experience the biggest defeat in their history.
• Ehmed: Liberation of Raqqa means destruction of the center for terrorism 

  İlham Ehmed said the liberation of Raqqa meant the collapse of the fortress of barbarism and the terrorist attacks spread all over Syria and the rest of the world. Ehmed also stated that the operation has important political implications.
• Karayılan calls on Kurdish youth to join the HPG and YPS ranks 

  Murat Karayılan: We can achieve victory in the freedom march of Kurdistan by meeting in the freedom march of Leader Apo. And everything depends on this... Join the organisation’s efforts, join the YPS, join the guerrilla.
• PJAK Co-President: Kurds will be the winner of the 21st century 

  PJAK Co-President Muini stated that they will continue the struggle until the liberation and freedom of the Kurdish people is attained, and vowed that Kurds will be the winner of the 21st century.