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• 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.
• Situation on the Turkish border: racism and despair 

  Social worker Berfin Ateşmen and human rights activist Leman Yurtsever have been observing the situation of refugees at the Turkish-Greek border on the spot. They declare that the refugees there are left to die.
• Turkish ambulances in the service of ISIS and al-Nusra 

  Uzbek jihadist Dayanç Dervişov was injured as a member of al-Nusra in Idlib, was taken to Turkey in an ambulance and from there to the then ISIS area in Syria. Now he is in captivity of the SDF in Northern Syria.
• Conference on the Kurdish question in the German Parliament 

  Under the title "Divided yet united? - Chances and Perspectives for the Solution of the "Kurdish Question" in the Middle East" a conference organised by the parliamentary group DIE LINKE and the Rosa Luxemburg Foundation (RLS) took place in Bundestag.
• Short break in Idlib: Sultan at the feet of Catherine the Great 

  The contradictory Moscow agreement between Erdogan and Putin indicates only a short break in the Idlib war.
• Öcalan: Everything depends on your struggle 

  Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan said in a meeting with his brother: "Everything depends on your struggle. If you do nothing, the isolation and bloodshed will continue. Nobody will come and solve the problem for you."
• Russia's Idlib tactics and the Russian frigates in the Bosporus 

  The conflict between Turkey and Russia in Syria continues to intensify. Russia is betting on a multiplayer plan and Turkey is using up its last playing cards in the swamp it has gotten into.
• How many refugees' bodies are under the snow at the border? 

  In Van which borders with Eastern Kurdistan, refugee tragedies have increased in recent years.
• PKK: Everything depends on our struggle 

  "The AKP/MHP fascism has no chance to survive against the effective and holistic struggle for freedom and democracy that we will lead. Everything depends on the strength of our struggle," the PKK said in a recent statement.
• Our history sinks before our eyes 

  Mesopotamia is a highly important region in the history of mankind. In Hasankeyf up to 12 thousand years old settlement remains have been found. This largely unexplored history is now sinking into the floods of the Ilisu Dam.
• Conference: Challenging Capitalist Modernity IV 

  The Network for an Alternative Quest will hold its fourth "Challenging Capitalist Modernity" conference in Hamburg in April. The main topics of this year's conference will be "Autonomous Education and Organization".
• Anti-catholic sectarianism in North of Ireland 'alive and well' 

  A research commissioned by the Equality Coalition, the report’s author Dr Robbie McVeigh found that disparities still exist between Catholics and Protestants.
• Essay by Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands - SPECIAL FEATURE 

  An essay originally written by Bobby Sands in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh in 1979.
• A member of both ISIS and the AKP 

  Şengül Büyükçelebi, wife of ISIS jihadist Deniz Büyükçelebi, is both an ISIS member and active in the AKP Women's Association. Her husband is closely connected with the main perpetrator of the Ankara massacre.
• Impressions from Slovenia – Discussions on Revolution and Rojava 

  Internationalists have been to Slovenia to talk about Rojava, Jinwar and the Internationalist Commune. But they also learned a lot about Slovenia, and the history of the partisans.
• What did Turkey offer the HTS and why was it rejected? 

  The Turkish state has offered the terrorist organization HTS, which has come under pressure in Idlib, to dissolve and to move to the Turkish-occupied Afrin zone.
• Buldan: The crisis will deepen as long as the isolation continues 

  "The AKP has made the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan the basis for the continuation of its political system. If the isolation is not lifted, a massive crisis awaits us," warns HDP Co-chair Pervin Buldan.
• KCK: The conspiracy continues in the form of absolute isolation 

  KCK called on the Kurds and their friends to increase the struggle to crush the absolute isolation and defeat the conspiracy, to strengthen their organization and to make their resistance and actions permanent.”
• The International Conspiracy in Abdullah Öcalan’s words 

  In the book The Age of Masked Gods and Disguised Kings, Abdullah Öcalan well explained how the International Conspiracy was devised, why, and what were its consequences.