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• Lawyers convey Öcalan’s message and details of the latest meeting 

  Asrın Law Office published details of the meeting with Öcalan on June 18, and a message from the Kurdish leader.
• Colombia peace process debated at Westminster 

  British and North of Ireland parliamentarians have held a debate on Colombian president Iván Duque’s handling of the peace process and the chronic human rights insecurity affecting the country.
• Heavy blow dealt to ISIS cells in northern Syria 

  The recent operations against ISIS structures in northern Syria have achieved to disrupt many of the organization's cells. The arrested terrorists gave information about Turkey's role in ISIS activities.
• Chomsky presents letter against militarization of Zapatista areas 

  Noam Chomsky has presented the letter against the militarization of indigenous zones of the Zapatista Movement addressed to President López Obrador.
• A shop turned into a museum in Sulaymaniyah 

  Turning photo collection into a habit, Recep Mela Refiq has collected 5,000 photos in 10 years and converted his shop into a museum.
• Leaked communications provoked earthquake in Brazil 

  The communications between Judge Moro and the prosecutor's office, which led to the conviction of former Brasilian President Lula, caused a political and judicial earthquake.
• Citizen’s Assembly on gender to be established in Ireland 

  Sinn Fein’s Justice and Equality Spokesperson has welcomed the government’s decision to establish a Citizen’s Assembly to consider the remaining barriers facilitating gender discrimination.
• Girê Spi: Four years on, a liberated city 

  15 and 16 June mark the fourth anniversary of the liberation of Girê Spi (Tal Abyad in Arabic) from DAESH.
• Signature campaign for Hasankeyf 

  Under the slogan “Hasankeyf is our culture, Tigris our nature” people from Hasankeyf, Iraq, Rojava and nine European countries called for the Turkish government not to start filling the Ilisu Dam reservoir, as was announced for 10th June, 2019.
• U.S. tariffs affect Mexico 

  The announcement by the US Government of the immediate imposition of 5% of tariffs on a long list of "made in Mexico" products has achieved its goals.
• Öcalan’s message to death fast and hunger strike activists 

  Öcalan: I consider you ending the hunger strike and death fast process on my suggestion to be a stance of historic importance and meaning, and a high value in itself. And I thank you.
• Liberal Party Swedish MP Malm: Turkey could attack Rojava 

  “Turkey wants to destroy the system built in Rojava. It may decide to attack Manbij. It may actually attack Rojava before the elections to be held in Istanbul on 23 June. The Turkish regime can do this to win the elections in Istanbul."
• "The right to identity is not negotiable", said grandson 130 

  Last Monday Grandmothers of Plaza de Mayo announced they had found grandson 130. In April they had found the granddaughter 129.
• Irish Presidential Voting Referendum nears 

  Sinn Féin Louth TD Gerry Adams asked the Taoiseach Leo Varadkar in the Dáil about the planned referendum on Presidential Voting Rights he has announced.
• TEV-DEM’s Xelil: A new Geneva processs should start - PART II 

  TEV-DEM Executive Council Member Aldar Xelil said the Geneva process has reached a deadlock and the Astana process ended in practice after the Idlib operation. Xelil said a new Geneva process should start, this time including the Kurds.
• TEV-DEM’s Xelil: Afrin will be returned to its own people- PART I 

  TEV-DEM Executive Council Member Aldar Xelil said: “The Turkish state’s forces took over Afrin’s lands, but they can never take the will of the people or the resistance. We believe Afrin will be saved.”
• Are the fires a war against Rojava’s economy? 

  ISIS was defeated in the military arena, but now the Northern and Eastern Syrian Federation is fighting against fires. With the start of the harvest season, suspicious fires have destroyed decares of cultivated lands.
• UK professor: We must get the world to know the Rojava revolution 

  East London University professor Camilla Power has been visiting universities and academies in Rojava. Power said that “it is important to get people in different parts of the world to know about the democratic confederalism revolution.”
• Gerry Adams called on Dublin to begin consultation on unification 

  Former Sinn Féin leader Gerry Adams has called for greater planning and an accommodation with unionists ahead of a referendum on Irish unity.
• The African Union suspends Sudan as a member country 

  After Monday's bloody repression of a civil protest camp in Khartoum, the African Union has suspended Sudan as a member country.
• What did Öcalan say in the visit? 

  Mehmet Öcalan spoke about the contents of his visit with his brother Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Danish Social Democracy wins the elections by turning right 

  With a participation of 85.1%, the Social Democratic Party of Denmark has been the winner of the legislative elections held in that Nordic country last Sunday, obtaining 26% of the votes.
• PKK's Karayilan: The response of the guerrilla will be harsh 

  The Kurdish guerrillas will provide historical resistance to the occupation attempts of the colonial Turkish state in southern Kurdistan, explains Murat Karayilan in an interview with the ANF.
• Turkey attacks, KDP wants to lay siege 

  The Xakurke attack is a new phase in the policies of war against Kurds. Approving and supporting this attack, the KDP becomes a partner in these policies.
• A general strike in Argentina paralyses the country 

  Last Tuesday a broad-based general strike paralysed almost all economic and social activities in Argentina.