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• 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.
• Kobanê Resistance: Victory of Ideology 

  At its core, Kobanê Resistance is the victory of ideology and political mentality. Fighters of Kobanê Resistance defeated ISIS with the strength of their ideology and political cause.The ideology and mentality of ISIS was defeated in Kobanê.
• Two YPG fighters of Kobanê resistance: Öcalan Amara and Kandil Yılmaz 

  YPG fighters Öcalan Amara and Kandil Yılmaz that participated in Kobanê resistance recounted their experience for ANF.
• MLKP fighter: Kobanê is the fortress of global resistance and struggle 

  MLKP fighter Cudi Fırat stated that the historic resistance made Kobanê the fortress of global resistance and struggle where human dignity and values are defended.
• People of Raqqa greet freedom fighters with joy 

  People of Raqqa expressed their joy at the decline of ISIS occupation and said they hope that the city of Raqqa will soon be liberated.
• Priest in Serêkaniyê: Peoples' unity is what bounds us to these lands 

  Armenian priest Firez Keşişan, whose ancestors moved to Serêkaniyê during the Armenian genocide of 1928, told ANF about the life in Rojava lands and their loyalty to this territory.
• “We determined our own principles for the solution to the crisis in Syria” 

  Northern Syria Democratic Federation Co-chair Hediye Yusuf: We declared the federation project for the solution to the Syrian crisis, it is a part of the solution. We made this decision together with all the peoples of the Emancipated Northern Syria.
• Wrath of Euphrates Spokesperson: We are avenging all the women 

  Wrath of Euphrates Action Room Spokesperson Cîhan Şêx Ehmed said Raqqa, declared the capital of the caliphate by the ISIS gangs, will be liberated in the leadership and command of women.
• Was Ömer Güney’s death planned? 

  The hitman for the scheme that murdered three revolutionary Kurdish women Ömer Güney died mere weeks before the trial started. But there were no indications that his health was deteriorating up to that day.
• 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.