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• Russia uses Erdoğan as a means of pressure 

  Journalist Yusuf Karadaş analyses that Turkey serves Russia mainly as a tool to put pressure on Rojava. Russia is trying to make an agreement between the regime and Rojava more difficult and at the same time build up pressure on the USA.
• Turkish election observations and British counter-terrorism policing of activists - PART ONE 

  Vala Francis was part of a delegation that went to Turkey to monitor the elections. On her return to London, she was arrested by the anti-terror police and asked if she had met PKK members and what she thought of Abdullah Öcalan.
• Turkey among ten worst countries for workers' rights, says ITUC  

  The Global Rights Index by ITUC confirms Turkey as one of the ten worst countries in the world in terms of workers' rights.
• ‘We will continue to be strong fighters in the spirit of our Commander Zîlan’ 

  Pelşîn Koçgirî, a member of the YJA Star Command Council, remembers the guerrilla Zîlan who blew herself up in a military parade in 1996, emphasising that Zîlan's stance is more necessary today than ever.
• Zilan, Kurdish women's symbol of resistance 

  Zeynep Kınacı (Zilan), who sacrificed her life in Dersim on June 30, 1996, was born in Malatya province in 1972. Her family was originally from the village of Elmalı in Malatya and the tribe Mamureki.
• Bayık: The government in Turkey and its decisions against the Kurds are not legitimate 

  “Nobody can destroy the PKK or complete the genocide of the Kurdish people because of its spirit of resistance. There is faith and sacrifice hidden in it. We have carried the resistance until today and have created many values thanks to this spirit."
• Butterflies and the fire: Internationalist guerrillas fallen in the mountains of Kurdistan 

  The Internationalist Commune of Rojava pays tribute to three internationalists; Azad Şergeş (Thomas Joham Spries), Asya Kanîreş (Kadriye Tetik) and Koçer Medya (Diyako Saîdî) who fell in Xakurkê on 5 June 2023.
• KCK: We will lead the struggle of Şêx Said and his friends to victory 

  On 29 June 1925, the Kurdish resistance leader Şêx Said and 46 of his companions were executed in Amed. The KCK paid tribute to them and said that the struggle of the Kurdish people would continue "until liberation".
• Bayık: Turkey’s policy against Öcalan complies neither with domestic laws nor international law 

  “The only thing they think about is to eliminate the Kurds. The Turkish state uses all its institutions for this. The policy against Rêber Apo constitutes a policy against the Kurdish people and human values,” said Cemil Bayık of the KCK.
• MED-DER is ready for new term language courses 

  Dilan Güvenç, one of the directors of the Mesopotamian Culture and Language Studies Association (MED-DER), said that the registrations for the new term language courses have already started.
• The power of Kurds and women 

  Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan's democratic, ecological and pro-women paradigm that offers solutions to social problems raises everyone's awareness, gives strength and will for victory.
• HDP: Turkey’s targeted assassination of civilians in North and East Syria 

  HDP Foreign Affairs Spokespersons Feleknas Uca and Hişyar Özsoy issued a statement on Turkey's targeted assassination of civilians in North and East Syria.
• The Rojava cycle of Ankara's 'Decomposition Plan' against Kurds– II 

  Another cycle of the 'Decomposition Plan' was the systematic drone attacks that targeted Qamishlo, the capital of the revolution, and Kobanê, the city of resistance. There have been 181 drone attacks since 23 June 2020 and 112 martyrs.
• The Rojava cycle in Ankara's 'Decomposition Plan' against Kurds - I 

  Syria has been at war for over twelve years, the economy has collapsed, there are international sanctions. The embargo and siege policy to stifle Rojava's revolution is part of Turkey's decomposition plan against the Kurdish movement.
• KNK will organize Kurdish National Conference in Lausanne in July 

  The Kurdistan National Congress will organize a Kurdish National Conference in Lausanne, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Lausanne which divided Kurdistan into four parts and subjected the peoples of the region to genocide.
• Last moments of two fallen guerrillas: "Resistance is life" 

  Stêrk TV released the last audio messages of guerrilla fighters Xebat Kop and Zana Rojda, who died on 7 September 2022 in the countryside of Mardin province in North Kurdistan.
• Rojava, Maxmûr and Chiapas: Building and Defending an Alternative to Capitalist Modernity 

  Rojava, Maxmûr and Chiapas: Building and Defending an Alternative to Capitalist Modernity, an article by the Rojava Internationalist Commune.
• HDP: Patnos co-mayors arrested on bogus charges 

  HDP said that Patnos co-mayors were arrested on bogus charges.
• KCK: Let’s wage an all-out resistance for Rojava 

  The Co-Presidency of the KCK Executive Council issued a statement calling for an all-out resistance for Rojava.
• Muslim: We rely on the resistance of our people and our forces 

  PYD co-chair Salih Muslim said that "the Turkish state will continue with its destruction plan. The airspace was opened to warplanes. We will resist to the end, we rely on the resistance of our people and our forces."
• JinNews editor Safiye Alağaş released from prison 

  JinNews editor Safiye Alağaş was released from prison.
• Kalkan: Turkey's democratization cannot be realized without the Kurdish struggle 

  PKK Executive Committee Member Duran Kalkan, analyzed the recent election results in Turkey.
• Kalkan: The struggle will become more radical 

  PKK Executive Committee Member Duran Kalkan, said that "the struggle will become more radical," and invited all parties to a united common struggle.
• YPJ publishes booklet to mark 10th anniversary of its foundation 

  The YPJ Information and Documentation Office published a booklet to mark the 10th anniversary of the creation of the Women's Defense Units.
• Influence of intelligence in Turkey’s foreign policy 

  The former head of Turkish Intelligence Services, Hakan Fidan, who expanded intelligence’s field of activity in the non-western region, has been appointed as the Ministry of Foreign Affairs.