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• HPG Press Spokesman: Figures do not fully reflect the extent of attacks 

  The guerrillas report daily on the Turkish invasion of Southern Kurdistan, including the use of banned weapons. But the figures included in the accounts do not fully reflect the scale of these attacks, says HPG press spokesman Serdar Yektas.
• Sinn Féin Ard Fheis: Time for Change 

  A packed hall in Dublin hosted the Sinn Féin Ard Fheis (Congress) on Saturday. The slogan of the meeting was 'Time for Change'.
• YJA Star guerrilla who survived Turkish chemical attack describes her experiences 

  YJA Star guerrilla Zîlan Avrîn spent 47 days in a tunnel in Southern Kurdistan resisting chemical weapons attacks by the Turkish army. She tells ANF about her experiences.
• Karayilan: Why is an independent investigation being prevented? 

  HPG commander Murat Karayilan asks for forgiveness from the relatives of the chemical weapons victims whose death throes were released on video, saying: "The Turkish state wants results before winter sets in."
• Today is World Kobanê Day 

  Today is World Kobanê Day. But how was 1 November chosen?
• Salih Muslim: The KDP is covering up the crimes of the enemy 

  PYD leader Salih Muslim criticises the international silence on the Turkish chemical weapons attacks and the negative role of the KDP.
• Besê Hozat: AKP-MHP's aim is to take control over Alevis - PART II 

  KCK Executive Council co-chair Besê Hozat said that the AKP-MHP is developing a genocide plan under the name of 'Alevi initiative' and added that its aim is to take control and assimilate the Alevis.
• Bese Hozat: The only way to overthrow the fascist government is struggle - PART I 

  “How will Turkey be democratized if the Kurdish question is not solved? This is simply impossible. The way to democracy in Turkey is only possible on the basis of the solution of the Kurdish question,” says Besê Hozat of the KCK.
• The path of revolutionary Internationalism: Şehîd Ronahî 

  Heval Ronahî, Andrea Wolf, was murdered by the Turkish state on 23 October 1998 together with 23 of her comrades in Catak.
• PJAK Co-Chair: It is important to continue the uprising until victory 

  Looking at the revolution in Iran, PJAK Co-Chair Siamand Moini warns against harbouring expectations of democratic change in the mullahs' regime. He says that the people's power is preparing to build a sustainable democratic society.
• Struggling on, staying strong: Reflections on IRR50 

  To mark 50 years since the radical transformation of the Institute of Race Relations, a film has been released on the IRR's longevity and place in British anti-racism.
• Karasu: Kurdish people must rise up in the face of attacks 

  Mustafa Karasu calls on the Kurdish people to rise up against the guerrillas in the face of chemical attacks. Karasu describes the KDP’s attitude in the context of the invasion of Southern Kurdistan as the greatest historical disgrace in history.
• The strategically unchanging fascist Turkish reality 

  The fascist Turkish reality, which is tactically new and strategically unchanged, has once again approved itself with the fighting between mercenary groups in occupied Afrin.
• More than a million people return to Raqqa in the five years since its liberation 

  In the five years since Raqqa's liberation, more than a million people have returned to the city. A large number of projects, cooperatives and councils have been set up.
• Images of guerrillas exposed to Turkish chemical weapons 

  ANF has obtained footage of two guerrilla fighters affected by Turkish chemical weapons. They suffered paralysis of the nervous and respiratory systems and memory loss.
• Five years ago the liberation of Raqqa 

  Five years ago, Raqqa was freed from IS domination. The city, located about 200 kilometers west of Aleppo, has since been rebuilt. The previous three years of reign of terror have left deep traces.
• Vigil for Öcalan website publishes interview with lawyer Ibrahim Bilmez 

  Öcalan's lawyer Bilmez said: "We are calling on everybody to understand that freedom for Öcalan is freedom for the Kurdish people, and freedom for the Kurds is your freedom, too."
• New evidence of chemical weapons and banned bombs used by the Turkish state 

  ANF presents to our readers 14 different images showing the Turkish state using banned bombs and chemical weapons in the guerrilla-held in Medya Defense Zones in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq).
• Aldar Xelîl: Turkey fabricates justifications for occupation 

  PYD Co-Presidency Council member Aldar Xelîl pointed to the Turkish attempts to fabricate justifications for new invasion attacks, saying, “They seek to change the cover of the attacks.”
• Debbie Bookchin: Turkey is actually engaged in a grotesque example of ethnic cleansing in Rojava 

  Debbie Bookchin underlined that Turkish President Erdogan sees the democratic, feminist and ecological system in Rojava as a threat to himself.
• Intellectuals from all over the world condemn international conspiracy against Öcalan 

  Intellectuals, writers and academics from all over the world continue to condemn the international conspiracy against Abdullah Öcalan.
• 9 October 1998: The day the international conspiracy began 

  In 1998, amid a unilateral ceasefire, Turkey, assisted by NATO, threatened Syria with war, forcing Abdullah Öcalan to leave the country on 9 October the same year. That day, the international conspiracy began.
• Kaya: Our system sets example for education in Kurdish in four parts of Kurdistan 

  The Education Board spokeswoman at Maxmur Refugee Camp, Bêrîvan Kaya, said that they have been providing education in their mother tongue for 27 years and added that the education system they promote relies on the paradigm of Öcalan.
• Kalkan: Everyone must take responsibility and struggle 

  KCK Executive Council Member Duran Kalkan evaluates the latest developments in Kurdistan and the Middle East.
• Remembering with anger and hope Şehîd Nagihan Akarsel 

  “Fighting Together” Feminist Organizing for Self-Determination and Democratic Autonomy and the Jineolojî Committee Germany wrote a text to pay tribute to Nagihan Akarsel.