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• Kalkan: AKP preparing to join the war in Iraq – PART II 

  PKK Executive Committee member Duran Kalkan stated that Tayyip Erdoğan’s position and policies bring Turkey closer to a period of conflict and war.
• Kalkan: AKP began a new series of attacks - PART I 

  PKK Executive Committee member Duran Kalkan stated that the AKP and the Turkish Army, through their military and police attacks, have brought a de-facto end to the ceasefire that had begun following the Newroz of 2013.
• Uca: I will be the voice of the women sold in the slave markets 

  HDP Amed parliamentary candidate Feleknas Uca said she would endeavour to be the voice of women sold by ISIS in slave markets. Uca said: “We will win all the seats in Amed”.
• David Graeber: I appreciate and agree with Öcalan 

  Prof. David Graeber said he had been to Rojava and described what he had seen there as a revolution. He praised Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan and said he agreed with his ideas.
• Middle Eastern power plays and the People's Spring 

  One place in the Middle East has managed to hold on to the revolutionary promise of the People's Spring. Rojava succumbed neither to the regime nor to the fundamentalists.
• Gerger: Kurdish question is the binding element between Turkey and Iran 

  Middle East expert Haluk Gerger commented on Turkish President Erdoğan's visit to Iran, emphasising that the fundamental common factor in Iranian-Turkish relations is the Kurdish question.
• The Rojava Resistance: Rebirth of the anti-capitalist struggle 

  The hope and idea in Rojava might be able to lead to something that is bigger than Kurdistan or the Middle East. It can lead to a new beginning in revolutionary undertakings around the globe.
• Mayor of Kobanê: We told about the Rojava model at CLRA meeting 

  The mayor of Kobanê Mustafa Abdi held a speech at the meeting of the Bureau of the Congress of Local and Regional Authorities of the European Council (CLRA) telling the general features of the model of democratic autonomy practiced in Rojava.
• Tschümperlin: Keeping the PKK on the terror list is meaningless 

  Swiss SP Federal Parliament Group leader Andy Tschümperlin said that given the realities in the Middle East it was meaningless for the PKK to ba banned, adding that the West should support the Kurds.
• 'ISIS attacked with Turkish state assistance; we have the footage’ 

  YPJ commander Çiçek Xemgin said ISIS had attacked Til Temir and Serêkaniyê in order to distract attention from its defeats in Kobanê, Til Hemis and Til Berak, but that this would not prevent the obliteration of the organisation.
• Witnesses of Halabja massacre: Thousands died in ten minutes 

  The savagery committed by the Ba'ath regime in Iraq led by late dictator Saddam Hussein left a black mark on the century with a chemical gas attack on civilians in Halabja 27 years ago.
• Suruc – the municipality’s camps and the state-run AFAD camp 

  There are 6 tent cities in the town of Suruc, in Urfa province near the border with Syria. Thousands of displaced people from Kobane are living in camps run by the municipality.
• Ströbele: PKK ban is full of inconsistencies and must be lifted 

  German Green Party politician Hans-Christian Ströbele has said he will support the Left Party’s proposal that the ban on the PKK be lifted in Thursday’s debate in the Federal Parliament.
• HPG Commander: ISIS gangs weakened in Sinjar 

  HPG Sinjar commander Yaşar Berçelan says the attack capabilities of ISIS in Sinjar have been weakened.
• Kürkçü: We are prepared to contest the elections together with the United June Movement 

  Following the victory of the radical left coalition, Syriza, in the Greek elections, attention has turned to whether a similar coalition might emerge in Turkey before the general elections in June.
• From Roboski to Keşan 

  From Roboski to Keşan
• Muslim: We will not allow for a second Lausanne 

  Muslim: We will not allow for a second Lausanne
• 22 more conscientious objectors 

  22 more conscientious objectors
• Bese Hozat: PKK is a women's party 

  Bese Hozat: PKK is a women's party
• The long road to peace and reconciliation in Turkey 

  The long road to peace and reconciliation in Turkey
• Mehmet Yıldırım: Why I am a consciousness objector 

  Mehmet Yıldırım: Why I am a consciousness objector
• Erdoğan and Barzani Cooperating Against the Rojava Revolution 

  Erdoğan and Barzani Cooperating Against the Rojava Revolution
• Turkey’s Terrorism Report 

  Turkey’s Terrorism Report
• All-Ireland soccer team proposed 

  All-Ireland soccer team proposed
• A Revolutionary Family in Rojava 

  A Revolutionary Family in Rojava