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• International Initiative: Celebrate Öcalan's birthday with us 

  On April 4th, 2020, the revolutionary Kurdish political leader, thinker and political prisoner Abdullah Öcalan will turn 71 years old.
• How does the Covid-19 test kit developed in Rojava work? 

  Heart and Chest Diseases specialist Înan Xelîl explained the coronavirus test developed by doctors in Rojava which received ISO certification. Xelîl stated that the test ensure a 85 percent reliability.
• Women in Spain fear lockdown with their abusers 

  The state of alarm in Spain like elsewhere has locked women at home, 24 hours a day, including those who suffer from sexist violence and now they are locked in with their abusers. Likewise it has also confined children who suffer assaults at home.
• Halil Dağ - a guerrilla, filmmaker, journalist 

  This our own way, our attitude and our view of life is something we no longer give away after all we have experienced…
• Violence doesn't stop in Colombia: Former guerrilla killed 

  Juan Carlos Castillo was 29 years old and was found dead by indigenous people.
• Autonomous Administration faces coronavirus emergency alone 

  The coronavirus emergency has put almost the entire world on its knee. However, it has not yet been seen in the Autonomous Administration areas of North and East Syria.
• Tribute to Halil Dağ, guerrilla, filmmaker, journalist 

  PKK guerrilla, filmmaker and journalist Halil Dağ, fell martyr 12 years ago.
• SES: The Health System in Turkey collapsed with the pandemic 

  One of the most urgent and important problems experienced by healthcare professionals in the field today is the lack of personal protective equipment.
• Will everything be alright? 

  The pandemic may have done mankind one last favor. It has revealed that the fairy tale spread around the world by the capitalists about the incredible increase in quality of life is a huge lie.
• Turkish TRT portrays ISIS member as a civilian against YPG 

  Numerous ISIS members fled to Turkey after the liberation of Northern Syrian territories in recent years and participated in the Turkish occupation operation in October as members of the "SNA". ANF uncovers their identity.
• FARC former guerrillas produce protective masks 

  Former FARC guerrillas at the Icononzo ECTR have produced 180 masks for the protection of ex-combatants and the community of Icononzo (Tolima). 
• Dublin follows London in shutdown due to coronavirus 

  The measures are in line with those announced on Monday night by British Prime Minister.
• The relationship between ecology and the system is unsustainable 

  Öcalan: We are witnessing the beginning of a chain reaction that threatens a final breakdown. No one has any idea how to stop it.
• Öcalan: not only society but all life on earth is under threat 

  Öcalan: The problem is not with industry itself but with the way it is used. Industry is like the nuclear option. When it is used by the monopolies it can be an unparalleled threat to life, portending both ecological disaster and war.
• Northern Syria: Thousands of ISIS jihadists await trial 

  Thousands of ISIS jihadists are sitting in prisons in northern Syria awaiting trial - many of them from European countries. The lack of clarity, however, creates new problems. We visited two prisons and talked to the prisoners.
• Right to health is connected to freedom 

  Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan: To struggle for the right to health is to respect yourself and understand the essence of freedom. 
• Six organisations write to WHO about serious situation in Shehba 

  The letter underlined the very concerning situation in Shehba, where over 200,000 displaced people are living.
• Öcalan: Chaos-causing diseases are spreading 

  Kurdish People's Leader Öcalan wrote: Chaos-causing diseases such as cancer, AIDS and stress are spreading. The society for the first time has realised that it's trapped in chaos.
• Children in Waşokanî Camp dream of going back home 

  The children forced to flee from the attacks of the invading Turkish state mercenaries who settled in Waşokanî Camp, are dreaming of returning to their homes while working with their families to create new living spaces.
• HBDH Executive Ferzad Can: Freedom and revolution will triumph 

  For four years now, the guerrilla alliance HBDH has been making an appearance with spectacular anti-capitalist and anti-militarist urban guerrilla actions. We spoke with Ferzad Can from the executive council of the organization.
• A wound bleeding for 32 years: Halabja 

  On 16 March 1988, 32 years ago, 5,000 Kurds, mostly women and children, were killed when deadly gas was released on the northern Iraqi town of Halabja by Saddam Hussein's forces.
• Bayik: Turkey needs mercenaries for its Ottoman expansion plans 

  Cemil Bayik, co-President of the Executive Council of the KCK, analyzed the latest developments in Kurdistan, Turkey and the Middle East in a television interview.
• “No crisis can be managed without resolving the Kurdish question" 

  "All political and economic crises in Turkey are linked to the Kurdish question. As soon as it is solved, all other problems will be dealt with as well", Leyla Güven explains in an interview on the recent meeting with Abdullah Öcalan.
• March 12, 2004: The uprising of Qamishlo 

  On 12 March 2004 an uprising broke out in Qamishlo which quickly spread to all of Rojava. Contemporary witnesses report about the events and the political atmosphere of that time.
• Erdogan's diplomatic defeats 

  The war in Idlib is inevitable despite negotiated breathing space. If Erdogan had been promised the desired support in Brussels, he could have started the war without waiting for an attack by the Syrian army.