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• Fighters in Jarablus: Turkish state can’t frighten us 

  Fighters in Jarablus say they will continue their fight against the Turkish state invasion. Fighters demand international groups to stand against the occupation of Turkish state and their allied gangs.
• Saleh Moslem: Turkey will fail in Syria 

  PYD Co-President Saleh Moslem criticized the Turkish army’s invasion of Jarablus and said that Turkey would fail in Syria.
• Militant transfer from Suruç AFAD camp to Jarablus in return for money 

  Within the scope of Turkish state's occupation operation on Jarablus, militants are being transferred from state-run AFAD camps in return for money through Turkish intelligence service MIT.
• Turkish military officer among commanders of Syrian opposition 

  Turkey is appointing Turkish military officers as commanders for groups they call “Syrian opposition”. A document has surfaced that shows an officer in the Turkish army has been appointed as commander to a group acting as armed Syrian opposition.
• Witnesses refute state officials: Suicide bomber in Antep was not a child 

  Murat Akdoğan who survived the ISIS suicide attack that hit a Kurdish wedding in Antep one week ago refuted the Turkish officials who said the suicide bomber was a child.
• TEV-DEM executive Aldar Xelîl: Turkey will burn itself in Syria 

  TEV-DEM executive Aldar Xelîl said Turkey’s Jarablus operation will turn back and “burn itself”. Xelîl expressed that the peoples of Turkey and international democratic groups should take action.
• Karayılan: ISIS is an excuse, the target is Kurds 

  Murat Karayılan stated that the target of the Turkish state’s Jarablus operation is Rojava and the operation could transform into a war between Kurdish people and the Turkish state.
• Turkey’s Jarablus gamble 

  The new plan led by Turkey is the search for a new balance of powers. In fact, it is rather the new attempt of actors that insist on the status quo to come together.
• Ehmed: Iran, Turkey and Syrian regime attack Rojava with a new concept 

  Syrian Democratic Council (MSD) Co-chair İlham Ehmed talked to ANF on the background of the conflict in Hesekê on its 8th day and the goals of this attack.
• Mother of Hurşit Külter wants her son back 

  Still no news has been received from DBP Şırnak provincial administrator Hurşit Külter who stood by his people during the state forces' onslaught on the areas of self-rule and was later detained by state forces on May 27.
• KCK's Sabri Ok urges Turkish state to enable urgent access to İmralı 

  KCK's Sabri Ok called upon peoples and democratic circles to mobilise for Öcalan, saying that denial of communication with İmralı was no ordinary case, and warning that Kurdish people will have no patience if it continues like this.
• HPG Commander: KDP as responsible as ISIS for Shengal massacre 

  HPG Shengal Commander Cudi Rojhilat stated that KDP was also responsible for the ISIS massacre of Êzîdîs in Shengal in August of 2014.
• "We will make those responsible for Shengal massacre pay" 

  YBŞ General Commander Mazlum Şengal stated that the main force of Shengal, the YBŞ, emerged as an avenging force for all the massacres and that they will make those responsible for the August 3 massacre pay.
• Öcalan's lawyer: With the state of emergency, all of Turkey is like İmralı 

  İbrahim Bilmez, one of Öcalan’s lawyers, said that the communication and visit bans weren’t as tight as today even in the September 12 period. Bilmez said all of Turkey has been turned into İmralı with the declaration of the state of emergency.
• Bayık: Erdoğan started the coup process with the isolation of Öcalan 

  KCK's Cemil Bayık stated that Erdoğan started the coup process after the June 7 elections and imposed a genocide against the Kurds, in response to which self-rule resistance was developed.
• Unsigned threat letter to Öcalan 

  Çetin Arkaş, who had stayed with the Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan in İmralı and had been exiled to Silivri some time ago, sent in an article to newspaper Özgür Gündem and claimed Öcalan had received an unsigned threat letter.
• Moosa: Öcalan must be released for peace in Turkey and the Middle East 

  Judge Essa Moosa said "It is absolutely essential for there to be peace in the Middle East and in Turkey, as well as there to be freedom for the Kurdish people, Öcalan must be released, unconditionally, and he must participate in the peace process."
• Arms AKP sent to ISIS in trucks discovered in Manbij 

  Manbij Military Council fighters have seized a large quantity of ammunition of the ISIS gangs in Manbij, which include flame throwers produced by Turkey.
• ‘ISIS gangs carry out attacks coordinated with Turkey’ 

  Manbij Military Council member Mıstefa Minbic stated that Turkey carries out attacks coordinated with ISIS gangs in order to stop the advance of Council forces in Manbij.
• Moslem: There are documents to enable the ICC to prosecute Erdoğan 

  PYD Co-President Saleh Moslem stated that the US and Russia have documents that will enable the ICC to prosecute Erdoğan.
• İlham Ehmed: Manbij operation serves the benefits of Syrian peoples 

  Syrian Democratic Council (MSD) Co-President Ilham Ehmed stated that the accomplishment of the Manbij operation will render ISIS weaker and frustrate the plans of some regional powers.
• Guerillas: We will be more active for the physical freedom of our Leader 

  HPG and YJA Star guerillas condemned the isolation of Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan, and stated that they would enhance their struggle for the physical freedom of their leader.
• Karayılan: We are in a process of creating free Kurdistan 

  HPG Commander Karayılan underlined that; “In the wake of the intense battle period in winter, struggle has now expanded and reached the peak in both cities and mountains. This is the period of accomplishing the revolution.”
• ISIS hospital captured: Supplies are Turkey patented 

  A hospital and the house of an ISIS emir were captured in the western front of Manbij. The supplies in the hospital show the aid from the Turkish state once more. Most of the supplies are Turkey patented.
• İlham Ehmed: Our goal is the liberation of entire Syria 

  Syrian Democratic Council Co-President İlham Ehmed stated that the liberation of Manbij would play a major role in building relations among all parts of North Syria and creating a shared and democratic life.