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• Liberated Manbij city institutionalizes its self-administration 

  Co-presidents of the self-administration of the liberated Manbij city stated that the people of Manbij, who are ruling themselves for the first time, will heal the wounds of ISIS cruelty with their democratic and egalitarian self-administration.
• “Erdoğan and FSA will bring death and destruction to Manbij” 

  “As Manbij Military Council's fighters, we can defend our lands and we do not need anyone. We want neither Erdoğan nor FSA. If we happen to need someone one day, we know very well who those people will be."
• Syriac fighter: Kobanê did not fall but Raqqa is falling 

  Syriac fighter Qamişlo: “In the operation to liberate Raqqa, our goal is to rescue our people under ISIS atrocity. We will liberate our brothers and sisters very soon.”
• YPJ fighters in Aleppo: Conspirators lost, Öcalan and his ideas won 

  YPJ Aleppo fighters Avesta, Nuda and Mitra condemned the February 15 conspiracy against Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan, and emphasized that women adopted Öcalan's philosophy and defeated the conspiracy.
• SDF Commander: We promise our people to liberate Raqqa very soon 

  SDF Commander Dijwar Serêkaniyê: “Everywhere where ISIS are, is a target to us. We promise our people that we will liberate Raqqa very soon."
• YPG fighters: The common life project won in Aleppo 

  YPG fighters stated that the true winners in Aleppo cleared of gangs is the new common life project as seen in Sheikh Maqsoud.
• Ehmed: Buffer zone and the immigrant settlement areas belong to SDF 

  Following a series of meetings in the US, MSD Co-chair Ehmed said the most important decision made by the new US administration is the buffer zone and the secure zone, and settling immigrants in this area under SDF and YPG control.
• PKK's Karayılan: It's time to completely wipe out the conspiracy 

  PKK Executive Council Member Murat Karayılan: Many European countries played a role in this conspiracy. Now they need to approach the Kurdish issue in a honest way and heed our calls for a solution.
• HPG/YJA Star guerrillas in Shengal: We will liberate our Leader in 2017 

  HPG/YJA Star guerrillas said "We will liberate Leader Öcalan in 2017 and break the chain on our people and humanity. We will ensure the democratic future of peoples through the freedom of our Leader."
• YPJ General Commander: The Syrian revolution has found its path 

  YPJ General Commander Nesrin Abdullah stated that the Raqqa operation has put the Syrian revolution on its course and added that Turkey has seeped into the Syrian lands and the people like a cancer.
• Turkmen resident from Aleppo: Kurds helped us come back to life 

  Aleppan Turkmen resident Selva pointed out that the Turkmens had to leave their lands due to the attacks of the Turkish state and gangs, and called on the Turkmens for the building of a democratic Syria.
• YPG Commander: Only Kurds put forth a project for a solution in Syria 

  YPG Commander: There are plans made over people’s blood, immoral political scenarios are prepared, but despite all that, MSD and SDF will determine the future of Syria with their political, military and diplomatic efforts.
• Internationalist activists of the Long March call for a united struggle 

  Activists in the “Freedom for Öcalan, Status for Kurdistan” march that started on February 1 and is expected to arrive in Strasbourg tomorrow call on the CPT and the European institutions to fulfill their duties.
• YJŞ commander: YJŞ and YBŞ are the self-defense forces of Êzîdxan 

  YJŞ commander Viyan Hebabî said: Êzidî women are gaining ideological and military consciousness as they join their self-defense force YJŞ and fight.
• Internationalist activists: Time to show solidarity with Kurds, not to talk 

  Internationalist activists attending the Luxembourg-Strasbourg Long March say, “Now it’s time to listen to the Kurds, to understand and to support them, rather than talk. Europe has talked enough. Now it’s time to show solidarity with the Kurds.”
• Geneva Canton MP: If Kurds are supported, Erdoğan can be stopped 

  Geneva Canton MP Batou called for increasing international solidarity with the Kurdish people and said: “If the Kurdish people’s struggle for freedom and democracy is supported, the Erdoğan regime with its fragile structure can be stopped.”
• HPG/YJA Star guerrillas: 2017 will be the year of our Leader’s freedom 

  HPG and YJA Star guerrillas stated that imperialist powers failed to accomplish their goals with the February 15 Conspiracy, and said “2017 will be the end of the fascist AKP state and the year of our Leader’s freedom.”
• Turkey's unrestrained enmity towards Kurds 

  The Turkish army and its affiliate gang groups are beginning to accept defeat in al Bab. However, they began to implement a new plan targeting Efrîn and Shehba because of their enmity towards Kurds as soon as the Bab defeat became visible.
• Rojava and disinformation 

  Disinformation is omnipresent. The propaganda war is in full swing in parallel with that in the field. This war of propaganda is in full activity against the Rojava and its armed forces.
• Commanders in the Raqqa operation: We will triumph 

  Wrath of Euphrates Operation Room Commanders: We will triumph in the third phase just like we did in the previous ones. We now aim to cut off all the roads leading to Raqqa.
• SDF fighters: We'll turn towards wherever there is tyranny and darkness 

  As the Operation Wrath of Euphrates continues, SDF forces announced from the Laqta village, which was taken in the first operation, that they are launching the third stage of the operation to liberate Raqqa from ISIS.
• Karayılan: There must be unity against the wave of fascism 

  Murat Karayılan: All those against fascism in Turkey have to be united against the wave of fascism. If this wave can be stopped, we can reach a bright and peaceful Turkey. If this wave wins, darkness will prevail for long years to come.
• Karayılan: The political stance of Kurdish people has defeated the AKP 

  PKK's Murat Karayılan said: “The Turkish state is the enemy of this people. It is a foreign and colonialist state. They came and forcibly took these lands, and now when the people demand their rights, they attack with all their military force.”
• Internationalist activists to march for Öcalan: Kurds are not alone 

  70 people from 13 countries will march from Luxembourg to Strasbourg from 1 to 11 February to demand freedom for Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Karayılan: AKP-MHP concept based on animosity against Kurds 

  PKK Executive Council Member Murat Karayılan stated that the AKP have defined a purpose for themselves to ensure the Kurdish people aren’t a part of the redesign of the region and that they can defeat the Kurds absolutely.