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• HPG commander Malazgirt reports from South Kurdistan 

  HPG commander Amed Malazgirt explained to ANF the current status of the guerrilla resistance against the Turkish occupation operation in South Kurdistan.
• Arthur West: "Turkey needs to be challenged for its actions" 

  Arthur West, veteran Scottish peace campaigner and former Chairperson of the Scottish Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament said "Turkey needs to be challenged for its actions."
• Journalist Apple: The silence on Turkey's war crimes is utterly disgusting 

  Journalist Emily Apple said that "the silence on Turkey’s war crimes is utterly disgusting."
• Human trafficking through KDP-AKP collaboration! 

  Travel agencies in Hewler facilitate human trafficking. Turkey is responsible for issuing visas and even passports to immigrants from Kurdistan to Belarus.
• 'Freedom Ship' will sail from Greece to Italy today 

  The 'Freedom Ship' action group began its program on Monday with a series of meetings with parties and non-governmental organizations in Athens. The delegation will leave Athens for Naples today.
• Writer Meral Şimşek: They want to end my literary life 

  PEN member, Kurdish writer and poet Meral Şimşek, who was sentenced to 1 year and 3 months in prison for "making propaganda for a terrorist organization" on the grounds of her poems and stories, said: "They want to end my literary life."
• HPG and YJA Star guerrillas: Our goal is victory! 

  HPG and YJA Star guerrillas speak about the resistance against the Turkish invasion of the Medya Defense Areas. "Sitting and waiting will not make a revolution."
• 20 students get their graduation certificates in Kirmanckî in Qamishlo 

  After four months of successful joint learning, 20 graduates of the Kirmanckî courses in Qamishlo received their certificates.
• Freedom ship will travel from Greece to Italy demanding freedom for Abdullah Öcalan 

  As part of the campaign “The time is now - freedom for Abdullah Öcalan”, a “freedom ship” will go from Greece to Italy. The aim is to remember Öcalan's odyssey in Europe, which led to his abduction and deportation to Imrali.
• Turkey violates the Chemical Weapons Convention it signed in 1997 

  Turkey continues to use banned weapons since it signed the Chemical Weapons Convention in 1997.
• Qamishlo first cycling team for women and girls celebrates its first anniversary 

  For a year now, Qamishlo has had its first cycling team for women and girls - a novelty, and as more and more women get on a bike, a taboo is finally broken.
• Coalition against chemical weapons in Kurdistan launched 

  A new initiative was launched on Tuesday to stop Turkey’s illegal war in Iraqi Kurdistan and hold it to account for its alleged use of chemical weapons.
• Interview with Mohammed Elnaiem on Self-Determination and the Struggle in Sudan 

  Peace in Kurdistan Campaign interviews Mohammed Elnaiem about the ongoing struggle for self-determination in Sudan.
• Kalkan: The states that created the “Kurdish question” do not want it resolved 

  “Under the guise of ‘combatting terror’ a Kurdish genocide has been supported by NATO for 37 years. Since 1985 Turkey’s war against the PKK has in essence been waged by NATO. The planning of this war takes place in NATO headquarters."
• Peace in Kurdistan Campaign expresses solidarity with World Kobane Day  

  Today is World Kobane Day and Peace in Kurdistan Campaign issued a statement of solidarity.
• Kalkan: Global powers approve and support Turkey’s genocidal sovereignty over Kurdistan 

  According to PKK Executive Council member Duran Kalkan, the Turkish state’s colonialist-genocidal sovereignty over Kurdistan is not opposed by the US and NATO, but, on the contrary, is approved and supported.
• Binarê Qendîl, a model of radical democratic self-goverment 

  The southern Kurdish mountain community of Binarê Qendîl is a model of radical democratic self-government. Communal life is organized at all levels by councils, problems are solved by society.
• Background of the mandate for Turkish foreign operations 

  The HDP Representation in Europe summarizes the background of the extension of the mandate for foreign operations in Syria and Iraq, which was passed in the Turkish parliament on Tuesday, and addresses Turkey's war crimes.
• Karayılan: Erdoğan's defeat against guerrillas in South Kurdistan leads him to threaten Rojava again 

  Because the Erdoğan regime cannot proclaim a victory over the guerrillas, the planned new elections in Turkey have been postponed and Rojava is threatened with a new invasion, said Murat Karayılan in a radio address to the guerrillas.
• 'The idea that there is an alternative to Erdogan is gaining strength in the world', Kürkçü says 

  While assessing Erdogan's recent internal and global challenges, Ertuğrul Kürkçü emphasizes that the world now views Erdogan differently.
• Turkey's use of chemical weapons and international silence 

  Turkey has repeatedly used chemical weapons in the past and has even appeared with them at arms fairs. Nonetheless, international organizations and the international community are turning a blind eye on this.
• Shengal authorities reiterate their demands to Iraq, UNAMI and International Coalition 

  The Democratic Autonomous Council of Shengal reiterates its demands to the Iraqi central government, UNAMI representatives and the members of the International Coalition Against ISIS.
• Turkey-ISIS relation exposed in Suruç Massacre 

  Suruç Families Initiative underlined that the relationship between the AKP-MHP government and ISIS was exposed in the Suruç Massacre and said that “the case was closed because the government was involved in the massacre”.
• Turkish administration should be brought to account 

  It is necessary to take to the streets to protest the occupation and chemical attacks of the AKP-MHP fascism. It is necessary to demand the resignation of Tayyip Erdoğan's administration which has lost its control over the country.
• Beritan, a symbol of the PKK’s resistance 

  When the Turkish operation against Southern Kurdistan started Beritan was in Xakurke. She fought a fierce battle against the Turkish army and collaborators. On 25 October 1992 she threw herself off a cliff instead of surrendering.