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• "The Turkish government uses pandemic to consolidate its power" 

  "Those who believe in the freedom line in Kurdistan are resisting. In all areas, people are fighting against the occupation", says YJA Star commander Feride Alkan.
• The building of a women's army in the words of PKK Viyan Amara 

  Viyan Amara is a freedom fighter of the PKK. The text below is an excerpt from her diary from 1997, in which she talks about the first steps towards the creation of the autonomous women’s army.
• Black scenario for South Kurdistan 

  Political analyst Niyaz Hamid, from South Kurdistan, said that what was lived in Zini Werte, is Turkey's joint plan with the KDP. He claimed that this plan also covers Mosul and Kirkuk.
• Our goal is the liberation of the human 

  The following text is from Abdullah Öcalan’s book “Sosyalizmde Israr – Insan Olmakta Isrardir” (To insist on socialism means to insist on being human) from the year 1998. It was taken before Abdullah Öcalan’s deportation to the prison island of Imrali.
• Turkish attacks in South Kurdistan protested in Europe 

  The attacks carried out by the Turkish state against South Kurdistan were protested by actions organized in various countries of Europe.
• Internationalistists on the pandemic and capitalist system 

  Members of the Internationalist Commune in northern Syria explain their perspective on the Covid-19 pandemic and the capitalist system.
• Öcalan: Kurdish unity urgently needed 

  In a telephone conversation with his brother Mehmet Öcalan, Abdullah Öcalan gave an assessment of the current situation in the Middle East and the crisis in Southern Kurdistan. He stressed the necessity of Kurdish unity.
• Power and truth 

  Analytics of power and nomadic thought as fragments of a philosophy of liberation.
• 16-year-old Yazidi girl freed after six years in ISIS captivity 

  Ronya F. was ten years old when the ISIS committed genocide in Shengal. She was taken to Mosul and sold in a slave market. At 14 she was forced to marry a 32-year-old jihadist. She has just been freed in the Hol Camp.
• Oil low price unleashes an unprecedented crisis 

  The sharp drop in international demand for oil, as a result of the international coronavirus pandemic, has been compounded by congestion in storage capacity.
• Colombia faces second pandemic: 95 killings since January 

  The social and political coordination of the Colombian movement Patriotic March, published an extensive report covering the first four months of the year, entitled "The other pandemic lived in Colombia".
• Turkey tries to revive the New Ottoman dream in Libya 

  Clashes intensified in Libya in the past year following the inclusion of foreign regional and international powers. The country split into two after the fall of Muammer Gheddafi in 2011.
• Armenian Battalion celebrates its first anniversary 

  "The Syriac, Assyrian and Armenian peoples found themselves in the revolution, just as the Arab people, who did not feel free, joined the Rojava Revolution, led by the Kurdish Freedom Movement."
• Today marks the 105th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide 

  Up to a million and a half Armenians perished at the hands of Ottoman and Turkish military and paramilitary forces and through atrocities intentionally inflicted to eliminate the Armenian demographic presence in Turkey.
• In Italy 1 day military expenses would pay for 25,000 respirators 

  Francesco Benozzo is an Italian poet, philologist and musician. "With the military expenses of a single day, six new hospitals could be built and equipped or 25,000 respirators purchased," he said.
• Lawyer Bilmez: Our client Öcalan is at high risk 

  The isolation of Abdullah Ocalan and his three fellow prisoners on Imrali cannot be compared to the domestic lockdown during the Corona pandemic. Lawyer Ibrahim Bilmez hopes for empathy.
• The need for emancipation from “the murderous state” 

  In a republic of boundless prohibitions subject to the command of one man, there is no other way out than a popular uprising. It can't go on like this.
• Latest news from Zînî Wertê 

  ANF reporter Rêbaz Hesen went to the region of Zînî Wertê to monitor the KDP forces deployment. Turkish state reconnaissance and fighter planes continue to fly over the region.
• What can art do in our world? 

  Kurdish art also takes its share in times of coronavirus. Film shooting and screenings stopped. Existing projects have been suspended. Theater plays cannot be performed in many places, especially in Rojava...
• Peace Mothers send solidarity messages to Agit Ipek's mother 

  Several mothers, members of Amed, Kızıltepe and İzmir Peace Mothers initiative, sent their solidarity messages to Agit İpek's mother Halise İpek.
• The genocidal policy of the State and the body in the box 

  If Kurdish society surrendered to its pain, it would not be able to live on. The Kurdish resistance draws strength from pain and life from death. Thus in Kurdistan “resistance becomes life”.
• LNA: Why do Kurds fight alongside the 'Grey Wolves' in Libya? 

  The repercussion about the existence of the contra militia "Roj Peshmerga" in Libya have still not died down. The Libyan National Army (LNA) is "shocked" that Kurds belong to this structure and are in Libya as its members.
• Internationalists send solidarity to the people of their county 

  Three internationalists sent their message from Rojava to the people in their countries who are fighting against the coronavirus pandemic. 
• Muslim: We’ll defeat this disease as we have defeated ISIS 

  The world powers have produced weapons and waged wars, but they have neglected the health of the people, said PYD politician Salih Muslim who sent his condolences to the people of Europe for the deaths caused by Coronavirus pandemic.
• Dr Nebbo: We are protecting people with our limited resources 

  Shehba is trying to protect itself against the continuous attack by the Turkish state and its mercenaries while stretching its resources to take measures to prevent the coronavirus pandemic.