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• 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.
• 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.