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• Sinn Féin: The murder of Lyra McKee is an attack on peace process 

  A journalist has been killed amid heavy rioting in the Creggan area of Derry on Thursday night as Crown Force police raided the nationalist area of the city ahead of republican Easter commemorative events.
• Öcalan's lawyer Bilmez: Ending isolation will open way to peace 

  "The sole demand of the hunger strikers is that the Turkish state complies with its own laws and puts an end to the isolation."
• Raise Your Voice for Leyla: Not numbers but women and men fasting 

  The 33-page report by the Raise Your Voice for Leyla Initiative gives a face to those on hunger strike reminding everyone that they are not number but women and men. 
• Bab-centered ISIS organization by the Turkish state 

  The Turkish state is restructuring and reorganizing ISIS under different uniforms and labels, centered around Bab, in Afrin and occupied areas of Shehba as well as in Turkey.
• MIT working to organize ISIS again 

  The Turkish state is working to organize ISIS again in Syria and in Turkey, as well as using ISIS as paramilitary forces,combining the gangs with state forces.
• Foza Yusif: ISIS is not only our problem 

  Kurdish politician Foza Yusif sees the danger of the Islamic terrorist organization ISIS not yet banished. In order to convict the ISIS members who are being held in northern Syria, an international tribunal needs to be set up in the region, she says.
• Turkey: Mass Prosecution of Lawyers 

  Misuse of Terrorism Charge Undermines Fair Trial Rights in Turkey, says Human Rights Watch
• Someone Else's War - when your child joins the war against Isis” 

  Short film commissioned by The Guardian newspaper tells the story of three English volunteers in the International Freedom Battalion fighting ISIS in Syria.
• Six years of YPJ: growing and changing society 

  Six years ago the Women's Defense Units were founded. YPJ spokeswoman Nesrin Abdullah takes a look back to the early days when Kurdish women in Rojava took up arms.
• KCK: AKP-MHP fascism was defeated on March 31 

  KCK: It wasn’t just an election won on March 31, it was AKP-MHP fascism that was defeated. The process after this should be to ensure the removal of this government through anti-war, democratic policies.
• Well-known intellectuals: The isolation of Öcalan must end 

  Well-known names including Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek have called for an end to the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan.
• PKK: The resistance move is leading AKP-MHP fascism to collapse 

  “The Newroz of 2019 has become a Newroz of Resistance against the AKP-MHP fascism. We salute everyone that celebrated Newroz on this basis, women and youth in the first place, and wish an even greater success and victory in the 2632nd Newroz Year.”
• PKK and PAJK prisoners: We will resist and win together 

  "We will continue our indefinite and non-alternating hunger strike action until our demands are accepted. We are now almost 7,000 people on hunger strike. We will enlarge our line of resistance around our Leader and destroy the AKP-MHP fascism."
• Demirtas calls on people to go to the polls to “teach a lesson” 

  "Make sure to go to the ballots and cast your precious votes. After that will come a democratic victory, alongside a rightful political struggle."
• Mazlum Doğan, the Kawa of the ‘80s 

  This year’s Newroz will celebrate Mazlum Doğan, the modern Kawa, and Zülküf Gezen, who ended his life a few days ago in Tekirdağ prison, where he was serving the 12th year of a life sentence.
• Newroz, a story of resistance against tyranny  

  To this day, on Spring Equinox, March 21st, Kurdish, Persian, Afghan and other peoples of the Middle East celebrate Newroz or New Day and Kawa the Blacksmith.
• PKK: New year of Newroz will be crowned with victory 

  PKK Executive Committee stated that they are greeting Newroz with a historic and wholistic resistance in the line of victory and said, “All fascist, colonialist and genocidal mindsets see their downfall in this historic struggle.”
• Turkey transferred numerous people from Turkic countries to Syria 

  The majority of ISIS jihadists who have surrendered to SDF in al-Baghouz are from Turkic countries.
• ISIS member: Turkish intelligence knows everything 

  When asked about how he crossed into Syria, ISIS member who was captured in Baghouz said: “Turkish intelligence knows everything.” The gang member spoke about trade between ISIS and Turkey and said: “Everything was great when we had a border with Turkey.”
• "DAESH prisoners exist, they are people and a solution is needed" 

  "Currently, a significant number of DAESH families remain in our camps. They are a great danger for both now and for the future."
• PAJK's Amed explains meaning of free municipalism  

  Amed said that free municipalism, which is based on the democratic, ecological and women libertarian paradigm, poses serious pressure on the male-dominated power mentality.
• Surrendering ISIS members want to return to “brother” Erdogan 

  Many ISIS members who surrendered to the SDF in Baghouz come from Turkic republics. They came to Syria over Turkey, and they want to return there. When asked why, they say “They are our brothers”.
• All ISIS roads lead to Turkey 

  There are ISIS members from around the world among those who surrender to the SDF. The gang members have one thing in common other than ISIS: They all joined through Turkey.
• ISIS members: We came from Turkey, we want to return to Turkey 

  ISIS members who surrendered to the SDF yesterday in Baghouz, most of them from Turkic republics, said, “We came from Turkey, we want to return to Turkey.”
• "The danger will grow unless states take back ISIS members" 

  Northern and Eastern Syrian Democratic Autonomous Administration Foreign Relations Council Co-chair Dr. Abdulkerim Omer said states should take back their ISIS member citizens who are currently in custody, and added: “Otherwise, the danger will grow.”