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• Bougainville: Birth of a new country? 

  The results of the referendum held, during 15 days, in the autonomous region of Bougainville, a region of Papua New Guinea, leave no doubt: with a participation of 87%, 98,3% of the people expressed their preference for independence.
• Stories of Roboski victims 

  The pain is still fresh in Roboski and the smiles are still partial. The walls with photographs of the deceased are decorated as if to complete the lives that are lacking.
• Roboski: "The state became a bomb and rained on us from the air” 

  Perpetrators of the Roboski Massacre are yet to be brought to justice as eight years have passed since 34 Kurdish civilians, of whom 19 were children, were bombed by Turkish warplanes on 28 December 2011.
• Roboski Massacre: Eight years demanding justice 

  On 28 December 2011, 34 people, including nineteen under 18, died as a result of Turkish warplanes bombardment. Eight years on families are still demanding justice and the truth.
• SDF Commander Akif Hesekê: We will end the invasion 

  SDF commander Akif Hesekê talks to ANF about the Turkish occupation plans and the prospects of the resistance in northeast Syria and Rojava.
• Women call for solidarity with Rojava: One World, One Fight 

  "Today, as people struggle against repressive rule in their own countries, they understand what the Kurdish movement long taught: that resistance is life. This international solidarity gives all our struggles hope."
• Intellectuals, academics and writers speak out for Rojava 

  Numerous intellectuals, writers and human rights defenders spoke to the ANF underlining that the invasion of Rojava carried out by the Turkish state is a violation of international law and warned against the danger of genocide.
• ISIS members with the badges of FSA and the SNA 

  ISIS members participated in the occupation of Serêkaniyê and Girê Spî under the Turkish flag and in the uniform of the so-called Syrian National Army (SNA). Meanwhile, they no longer consider it necessary to hide their identity.
• Call for the internationalist long march for Öcalan in Europe 

  ​​​​​​​Call for the long march "Freedom for Öcalan - shoulder to shoulder against fascism" to Strasbourg from 9 to 15 February 2020.
• Turkish state prepares for annexation of occupied territories 

  As with the annexation of Hatay, Turkey is preparing to annex the territories it has occupied in northern Syria. To this end, Turkish officials are appointed as councillors and subordinate administrative bodies in invaded areas.
• Turkey uses Turkmen ISIS members 

  The Turkish state has brought Turkmen ISIS members and their families from refugee camps in Azaz and Idlib to Turkey and released them.
• Young man from Dirbêsiyê: Turkey has removed my kidney 

  Syrian Basil Mihemed Nezir, who was shot by Turkish soldiers at the border and taken to Kızıltepe State Hospital for treatment, stated that his kidney was stolen while he was in hospital and called on international human rights organizations to investigat
• The world's longest curfew: Sur 

  Indeed the curfew of Sur never ended. Four years on, it is still ongoing. So is the resistance: the heroic defense of Amed's district is being perpetuated by the names given to the children born in the last 4 years: Çiyager, Roza, Rozerin, Reber, Delil.
• Turkish ISIS member: Turkey’s soldiers helped us cross the border 

  An ISIS member from Turkey arrested in Northern Syria reports in detail in an ANF interview how Turkish policemen and soldiers helped him to cross the border into the "Islamic state".
• A lifetime of struggle: Tahir Elçi 

  On 28 November 2015, Tahir Elçi, the lawyer and Amed Bar Association President, who spent his life defending people from the violence and abuse of the Turkish state repression machine, was murdered in Amed.
• PKK: We will fight stronger and win bigger in our new year 

  PKK called upon the peoples of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria and the entire Middle East, the oppressed humanity and all revolutionary-democratic forces to develop a common democratic struggle against fascism and the system of capitalist modernity.
• Çiyager's poem, the art of Rûbar Şervan! 

  You can understand better why Rûbar became an actor if I answer the question ‘which kind of actors we were looking for’. I was looking for amateur actors because we wanted to capture authentic emotions.
• “We are the mountains of the Kurds” 

  Here are some voices from the “mountains” for those who have set in motion a movement of mountains that awakens hope for all the undeceived of this world.
• KCK's Bayik: To stand up for Rojava alone is not a solution 

  People around the world show solidarity with Rojava, but that is not enough. Something must also be done for Northern Kurdistan, because this is where the destruction campaign of the Turkish state has its starting point, says Cemil Bayik of the KCK.
• KCK's Bayik: Third World War taking place in the Middle East 

  "Both the USA and Russia have sacrificed the Kurds to their own interests and cleared the way for Turkey. Turkey is being used by them against the Kurds," explained Cemil Bayik of the KCK in a TV analysis.
• Turkey's "30 kilometers obsession" 

  The wave of genocidal policies initiated by the Ottoman Empire against the Assyrians and Chaldeans and the ancient peoples of Mesopotamia on the eve of the First World War continues today in Rojava.
• Internationalist Commune of Rojava remembers Seyit Rıza 

  This 15th November 2019 mark the 82nd anniversary of the execution of Seyit Riza by the Turkish state. The internationalist commune of Rojava published this article to remember him and his fight against the oppressors.
• Sassoli: Killings of civilians and prisoners are war crimes 

  Professor Marco Sassoli, an expert in international humanitarian law, said that Turkey in Northern and Eastern Syria is acting in violation of international law.
• Del Ponte: UN failed, West betrayed the Kurds 

  Del Ponte said that the role of the UN in the war in Syria had actually to do only with humanitarian aid. The UN has done nothing to bring peace to Syria, she said.
• Assyrian-Syriac fighters: We will defend our people and land 

  Fighters of the Syriac Military Council and Khabour Guards declare that they will defend the Til Temir region and its people against the Turkish invasion.