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• 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.
• 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.