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• Xelil: Raqqa operation to start soon 

  TEV-DEM Coordination member Aldar Xelil stated that an agreement has been reached between the Coalition forces and the SDF, which includes YPG, on the operation to liberate Raqqa from ISIS occupation.
• AKP is the enemy of Kurds – Cemil Bayık 

  KCK Executive Council Co-President Cemil Bayık said “the AKP government’s detainment of Amed Co-Mayors is the peak of its enmity towards Kurds because Amed has always been the symbol of Kurds’ will for a free and democratic life."
• Karayılan: The heroic resistance of the Efrin people should be supported 

  Murat Karayılan: “As Turkey wanted to take Kobanê by using the ISIS gangs, now they have targeted Efrîn. The people of Kurdistan should support the heroic resistance of the people of Efrîn today, as they supported Kobanê.”
• KONGRA GEL Co-chair Zagros: This is the final battle for victory 

  KONGRA GEL Co-chair Hacer Zagros stated that the Rojava people had displayed the resisting spirit against colonialism and nobody will be able to tear down the unity of the peoples.
• Kino Gabriel: Turkey's attacks won't deter us from our goals 

  Kino Gabriel from Syriac Military Council warned that they will not remain silent in the face of the Turkish state's attacks, and that Erdoğan's plan to take control in Bab and encircle Manbij would have grave consequences.
• Karayılan: We will have an active position in the Mosul operation 

  PKK Executive Council Member Murat Karayılan said Turkey didn’t want PKK to take part in the Mosul operation, but they won’t stand on the sidelines and watch.
• Karayılan: We are ready to join the Mosul operation 

  Murat Karayılan said: “PKK wants to join the Mosul operation. PKK wants to take the fight against ISIS to the end. If ISIS resists in Mosul, they will need us. We are ready to join the operation.”
• SDF Spokesman: We may be up against Turkey and its affiliates in al-Bab 

  SDF Spokesman Talal Ali Silo stated that the Turkish army and affiliate gangs have expanded their occupation and the SDF might be up against these in al-Bab despite the US stating that they would not allow clashes between Turkey and SDF.
• The Mosul operation and the latest situation in the region 

  The liberation of Mosul is not going to happen in the short term. Even if the operation starts, the “Mosul Issue” will continue. And in conjunction, the military, political and diplomatic tensions will deepen.
• Turkey's invasion from Jarablus to Exterin: 50 villages evacuated 

  The invasion by the Turkish army and allied gangs from Jarablus to Exterin continues for almost 2 months. Dozens of villages have been burned to the ground and plundered and an unmanned zone was created through forced displacement of the people.
• İlham Ehmed: Turkey an obstacle in the liberation of Mosul - PART II 

  MSD Co-chair İlham Ehmed said Kurds and the peoples of the region need to insist on democracy and a decentralized system to avoid a return to a central system. Ehmed also said Turkey’s forces in Iraq are an obstacle in liberating Mosul from ISIS.
• Flückiger: Turkey en route to a fascist state, there must be an intervention 

  BastA Party's Martin Flückiger said Erdoğan seeks to complete the interrupted coup, adding: “It is unacceptable that Germany, France and the rest of Europe are silent in the face of Turkey’s fascist system approach due to their own interests.”
• İlham Ehmed: Turkey may attack Efrîn – PART I 

  Syrian Democratic Council (MSD) Co-chair İlham Ehmed said the conflict between Russia and the US is the opposite of the discourse on the ground.
• First the press is silenced, then... 

  It is clear that the international conspiracy against Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan has left deep traces in the collective memory of the Kurdish people.
• HPG guerrillas: Fascist Turkish forces will be defeated 

  Guerrillas have brought the Turkish Gendarme Command to the point of saying “We are waging a war of life and death in Çukurca”. However, it is questionable how the Turkish army, which cannot fight, is waging a war of life and death.
• SDF Spokesman: We are a joint front against terrorism 

  SDF Official Spokesman Talal Ali Silo spoke on the first year anniversary of the SDF’s establishment, saying: "Many young people have joined us because of our reality and correct position, and we have made important gains."
• Berekat: As the Turkish state keeps attacking Kurds, it will consume itself 

  Cizîr Canton Interior Affairs Council Chair Berekat reacted against the Turkish state’s attacks on Rojava and said, “Anti-Kurdish acts will consume the Turkish state in the domestic and foreign areas.”
• YBŞ fighters: Êzidî people only trust the PKK 

  YBŞ (Shengal Resistance Units) fighters spoke on the comments that HPG guerillas should leave Shengal and underlined that they still remembered the time KDP peshmergas abandoned the Êzidi people to face a massacre.
• KCK's Bayık: Peace and solution only possible through struggle 

  KCK Executive Council Co-president Cemil Bayık said: “Peace and solution are only possible through struggle. Anybody who says anything different than struggle, is serving the aims of the genocidal colonialism.”
• İlkhan: Reports of Turkish massacres relayed to the UN by a special unit 

  Geneva Kurdish Human Rights Center Representative Mehmet İlkhan said that the UN knows very well about the massacres committed by the Turkish state in Northern Kurdistan.
• Kalkan: Peoples and democracy forces must protect their will 

  PKK's Duran Kalkan stated that: "The fascist dictatorship in Turkey isn’t just against the peoples in Turkey or the will of the Kurds. They consider themselves like the caliph of Islam."
• Turkish army suffering a heavy defeat in Çukurca 

  The operation launched by the Turkish army in Çukurca (Çelê) with huge propaganda 10 days ago, has become a heavy defeat.
• Redur Xelil: Turkey creates conflict with YPG due to its Kurdish enmity 

  YPG Spokesman Redur Xelil stated that Turkey is creating conflict with YPG because of its enmity towards the Kurds and Kurdistan.
• The state's approach and threats against Öcalan 

  When a state that sent ISIS murderers into Kobanê while on the way to meet Öcalan and threatened Rojava with 300 fighter jets says "There is no problem about Öcalan's security", this must be a reason to have concerns, not relief.
• Bayık calls upon everyone to oppose the Turkish occupation 

  KCK Executive Council Co-President Cemil Bayık stated that Turkey supports ISIS, Jabhat Al-Nusra and Ahrar Al-Sham against the SDF, Rojava and North Syria Federation, and called upon everyone to oppose the Turkish occupation.