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• HDP MP Fırat declares the probable replacement for Davutoğlu 

  HDP Mersin MP Dengir Mir Mehmet Fırat assessed the crisis growing inside AKP and said, “His time is up. Davutoğlu is a political ghost. Mr. Son-In-Law or Binali Yıldırım will take his place.”
• Bayık: Liberation and resistance necessary for negotiation 

  KCK Executive Council Co-President Cemil Bayık said that there could be no negotiation or dialogue under the current conditions and noted that liberation and resistance were necessary for negotiation, and mobilization was necessary for victory.
• Will Azaz be handed over to ISIS? 

  Important developments are taking place in the Afrin-Azaz-Sheikh Meqsoud triangle after the declaration of the North Syria Federation and the Minbic operation.
• Hozat: 2013 was a plan of elimination, AKP had already prepared for war 

  In reference to Turkish President Erdoğan’s threat of “denaturalization”, KCK co-chair Besê Hozat said that “the Kurds were never citizens of the Republic of Turkey. They were never considered citizens.”
• Bayık: Kurdish people will naturally respond to the war imposed on them 

  Stating that the PKK has a 43 year long history, Bayık wrote that Erdoğan is fooling himself and the Turkish sate is on the losing side in the current process when the Middle East is being reshaped.
• Brussels attackers’ Turkey trip in photos 

  Documents purportedly belonging to the perpetrators of the massacre in Brussels were seized in Rojava. The attackers’ photo albums show that they spent some time in Turkey and have a good relation with this country.
• Who do the Turkish addresses retrieved in ISIS notes belong to? 

  New information comes to light about the presence and organisation of the Turkish intelligence organisation MİT within the ISIS. The documents in Turkish captured by YPG and SDF combatants confirm the relations of Turkey and ISIS.
• What is the ‘TAK’ and who are its members? - Amed Dicle 

  It is beneficial to examine the TAK; an organization that has once again received attention after its recent actions in Ankara.
• The truth behind Brussels attacks 

  After France, simultaneous attacks targeting Belgium have claimed almost 40 lives, with around 200 injured people. The attacks targeted Zavantem International Airport and Maalbeek metro station.
• Turkish soldiers flee their emplacements upon raid by guerrillas 

  Footage by ANF shows the raid conducted by HPG and YJA Star guerrillas on Turkish troops in Oremar region at the border of Hakkari's Yüksekova district last week.
• Captured ISIS member: Turkey planned the recent attacks on Rojava 

  ISIS gangs had attacked the towns of Girê Spi and Siluk on February 27, and the clashes in 25 different locations had lasted 2 days. Hundreds of ISIS gangs were killed and tens of gangs were captured during the attacks.
• Moslem: We focus on federalism based on folks - PART II 

  "Turkey has already forgotten about the history and geography. This is why it is losing today. We hope it will correct this mistake of its", said PYD co-chair Saleh Moslem.
• Moslem: We have evidences of Turkey's involvement in Girê Spî attack - PART I 

  PYD co-chair Saleh Moslem said they had documents proving Turkey's involvement in ISIS' attack on Girê Spî, and stressed that Turkey is making a mistake that it must correct in the face of its repeated failure.
• Cemil Bayık: Kurds are not property of the Turkish state 

  KCK Executive Council Co-President Cemil Bayık noted that Kurdish people would not acknowledge the government and the state as long as the state does not acknowledge Kurdish people’s self-administration and Turkey does not democratize.
• Ehmed: Three federal regions will be formed in Syria - PART II 

  Syrian Democratic Council (MSD) Co-President İlham Ehmed said it is now being discussed about a federal system in Syria in which Kurds in Federal Northern Syria will sustain an autonomous organisation in the system they have been building.
• Ehmed: Nobody can question where the SDF will advance – PART I 

  Syrian Democratic Council (MSD) Co-President İlham Ehmed stressed that Turkey does not want the formation of a political will and the solution of the problems in Rojava.
• Turkish army defectors in the PKK: Fight for freedom, not slavery 

  Two young former soldiers who joined the PKK called upon everyone to not serve in the Turkish military and join the guerrillas’ freedom struggle against brutality.
• SDF Commander: Shaddadi operation brings closer the end of ISIS 

  SDF Commander Simko Çele stated that the Shaddadi operation would cripple ISIS and bring its end closer.
• 15 February 1999: The capture of Abdullah Öcalan 

  On 15 February 1999, Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan was captured in Kenya by Turkish special agents acting in connection with CIA and Mossad, while en route from the Greek embassy to Nairobi airport.
• International delegation to arrive in Turkey for a visit to Öcalan 

  An international delegation led by Essa Moosa has planned a three-day visit to Turkey on February 14th to contribute efforts for the ending of the isolation on the Kurdish leader and the ongoing war in North Kurdistan.
• PYD co-chair Moslem: We won't recognise a Geneva-3 excluding Kurds 

  PYD co-chair Saleh Moslem stressed that it was not only Turkey but also some other forces that didn't want the participation of Kurds in the Geneva-3 meeting to avoid their attainment of political status.
• Karayılan: Erdoğan will be called to account for this atrocity 

  PKK Executive Committee Member Murat Karayılan saluted the popular resistance in Cizre and Sur, and vowed that they will call perpetrators of the massacre against Kurdish women, children and youths to account.
• HDP invites Chomsky to Kurdistan 

  HDP Şırnak MP Faysal Sarıyıldız has invited American philosopher Professor Noam Chomsky who rejected Erdoğan's invitation to Turkey, has invited Chomsky to Kurdistan to see the situation at scene.
• Chomsky: Courageous stand of Kurds should gain the deserved support 

  Noam Chomsky pointed out that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is renewing some of the most harsh and brutal policies that the Turkish state has carried out against Kurdish rights.
• QSD combatants: We'll continue fighting until whole Syria is liberated 

  Combatants of the YPG led Syrian Democratic Forces participating in the Tishrin operation stressed that their fight against ISIS and allied groups will continue until the whole Syrian territory is cleared.