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• KCK’s Bayık warns against Turkey’s psychological war 

  Bayık stressed that the Turkish state, by granting Mehmet Öcalan permission to visit Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan, was trying to break the resistance.
• Xabûr: Prisoners resist with the spirit of the July 14 resistance 

  KJK executive Dîcle Xabûr, spoke of the indefinite hunger strikes in protest against the strict isolation imposed on the Kurdish People’s Leader, Abdullah Ocalan, noting that the hunger strikers draw their strength from the spirit of the July 14 resistanc
• Yazidi child speaks of ISIS brutality 

  He was one of the Yazidi children abducted by the ISIS, his name is Mervan Salih, 13. Mervan was abducted in Shengal when he was 9. He says that he will never forget the viciousness he witnessed.
• Leyla Guven: Don’t expect us to end the hunger strike 

  Leyla Guven, imprisoned in Amed, said the isolation of Ocalan has not ended and that the hunger strike will continue.
• Jaysh al-Thuwar Commander: HTS is allowed to advance 

  Jaysh al-Thuwar Deputy Commander General Ahmet Sultan said: “Hayat Tahrir al Sham will take the whole of Idlib under their control. HTS is allowed to advance, because Turkey and Russia have plans over Idlib.”
• “My mother taught me not only to rebel but to fight” 

  Throughout her life Sakine would develop a deep knowledge and understanding of both Kurdistan (and Turkey) and Europe and their peoples, cultures, identities.
• Confidential correspondence on Guney between Turkey and Germany 

  Confidential correspondence has surfaced between the Berlin and Ankara on Omer Guney who killed 3 Kurdish women in Paris. Turkey asks “Did Guney receive any arms training in Germany?” in the correspondence, and Germany says he did not.
• PKK: Paris Massacre perpetrators deliberately obscured 

  PKK: The Paris Massacre was perpetrated by fascist-genocidal forces that feed off of the Kurdish issue. It was an attack geared towards preventing a solution to the Kurdish issue.
• Sakine, Fidan, Leyla worked for freedom and peace in Kurdistan 

  Both issues -exposing the violence against a people of 40 millions and working for peace- were the target of those who ordered the triple murder.
• Xelil: International powers should be guarantors - PART II 

  The second part of Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM) Diplomacy Officer Aldar Xelil's interview with the ANF about current matters is as follows.
• Xelil: International powers should be guarantors - PART I 

  TEV-DEM Diplomacy Officer Aldar Xelil called on international powers to be guarantors at the border against the Turkish threats of invasion. Xelil said a no-fly zone could possibly be brought up in the Council of Europe as well.
• What did the Turkish delegation offer Russia? 

  The Turkish officials, on their excursion to Russia, proposed options for the invasion of Manbij. Following proposals that can be summed up as “part of Manbij for part of Idlib”, Russia has phased into a “wait and see” policy.
• A review of the events of 2018 in Rojhilat and Iran 

  The crisis of drought and water supply, the failure of Islamic Republic’s functioning mechanism, crisis of unemployment and social crisis, weakening of public confidence in the regime, widespread corruption in management made most of the topics in 2018.
• Demirtas: Not without Ocalan! 

  Imprisoned Kurdish politician Selahattin Demirtas spoke against the Imrali isolation and in support of Leyla Guven’s resistance and said, “Not without Ocalan”.
• PYD’s Muslim evaluates 2018 for North and East Syria 

  Salih Muslim, Head of Foreign Relations for the PYD evaluated the diplomatic efforts of 2018 in North and East Syria and said, the New Year’s diplomacy will be conducted based on resolving Syrian crisis and the liberation of Afrin.
• Intense traffic in Arima against occupation 

  Following the intense diplomatic traffic that started in the Moscow-Damascus and Northern Syria line after the Turkish threats of occupation, Syria and Russia sent forces to Arima town in al-Bab and started to act together with the self-defense forces.
• PKK guerrilla from Germany: I saw that another life is possible 

  Besê Olrika is a 23-year-old German woman. As a leftist activist she got to know the PKK. She went to Rojava and then into the Kurdistan mountains. Now she is a guerrilla fighter for the YJA star.
• PKK’s Karayilan: Trump’s decision didn’t surprise us 

  PKK Executive Committee Member Murat Karayilan said US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from Syria wasn’t a surprise for them.
• Stories of Roboski victims 

  The pain is still fresh in Roboskî and the smiles are still partial. The walls with photographs of the deceased are decorated as if to complete the lives that are lacking.
• Roboski massacre, seven years ago 

  On 28 December 2011, 34 people, including nineteen under 18, died as a result of Turkish warplanes bombardment. Families are still demanding justice and the truth.
• TEV-DEM’s Koçer talks about possible scenarios for Syria 

  Koçer: “America's strategy in Syria is entering a new phase. They are closing the DAESH strategy. They are trying to develop a new war strategy in Syria.”
• “Peoples’ Joint Democratic Front is the way out of the crisis" 

  ‘Peoples’ Joint Democratic Front’ is a major strategy for the transition from the current crisis, said KODAR Co-chair Fuad Beritan.
• Syriac Officials: Our people have alternatives 

  Syriac officials in the Northern and Eastern Syrian administration and military forces spoke about Turkey's threats and the US decision to withdraw from Syria, stating that peoples are not without alternatives and they have new projects in progress.
• Footprint of US Secretary of Defense in arms trade with Turkey 

  According to reports related to the sale of weapons by the United States, most of the airplanes and helicopters used by the Turkish Air Force are American.
• KCK: US withdrawal from Syria will not weaken the struggle 

  Referring to the withdrawal decision of the US from Syria as a "rescue operation for the fascist AKP/MHP government" KCK said: "The new balance of power will lead the Turkish invasion to a defeat."