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• FARC: Building cooperatives for former guerrillas 

  One of the main tasks of the Colombian former guerrilla movement is to ensure its militants are fully reincorporated to civilian life
• Muslim: Our goal is for TEV-DEM to organize the 3rd territory 

  Salih Muslim said circumstances have changed and that the TEV-DEM aims to return to the task of organizing civilian society: “Our fundamental argument is that an organized society can do anything.”
• Agricultural revival in Ayn Isa 

  Agriculture committees have intensified their efforts in Ayn Isa under Raqqa
• KCK’s Altun: Idlib has a key function 

  KCK Executive Council member Rıza Altun commented on the key role of the Northern Syrian region of Idlib and the position of Turkey, Iran, Russia and Syria.
• Karayılan: This is a historic period of settling accounts 

  “If the Turkish state advances towards the inner parts of Southern Kurdistan, that would turn into an opportunity for us. We won’t be basing ourselves on a defense tactic against them with our current forces.”
• Karayılan: Turkish army greatly lost its power to fight – PART I 

  PKK Executive Committee Member Murat Karayilan stated that if the Turkish state advances towards the inner parts of Southern Kurdistan, they will not take a defense tactic approach with their current forces.
• KCK's Altun: Turkey-US crisis is very serious 

  KCK Executive Council Member Riza Altun said Turkey is faced with a very deep crisis. Every day, he added, it is bleeding out.
• Karayılan: Our martyrs will be avenged 

  Murat Karayılan addressed the guerrilla forces over the radio and said, “We have a historic account to settle with Turkish colonialism. The blood of our martyrs will be avenged and the despicable enemy will be held to account.”
• Mam Zeki: A life for his people 

  Mam Zeki of the Yazidis was martyred on 15 August in Shengal, following a calculated attack launched by Turkish warplanes.
• FARC former guerrillas open political school 

  The former FARC guerrillas are setting up economic and cultural projects to build the new Colombia
• Karasu: August 15 changed the destiny of Middle Eastern peoples 

  "The ideologically, politically and socially defeated colonialism will fail militarily as well, and this will result in the democratization of Turkey and liberation of Kurdistan."
• PKK's Kalkan tells how 15 August 1984 actions were planned 

  ‘What we did in 34 years is the same as what we will do in the 35th year’, said Duran Kalkan.
• KCK: It is the guerrilla that caused the Turkish state’s crisis 

  KCK pointed out the economic crisis in the written statement issued for the 34th anniversary of the August 15 lunge. KCK said, “It is the guerrilla who resist with the spirit of August 15 that caused the Turkish state’s deep crisis.”
• Mahsum Korkmaz, Agit: The spirit of 15 August 

  PKK Commander Agit is said to have been buried at Newala Kasaba. Walking there makes history revive.
• Manbij celebrates second anniversary as a free city 

  On 12 August 2016 the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) and Manbij Military Council liberated the city from DAESH.
• Family fleeing Afrin: Turkish state turned Afrin into hell 

  Familes from Afrin who returned to the province so their lands and property wouldn’t be confiscated after the invasion are forced to leave their home for a second time due to the tyranny of the Turkish state and their allied gangs.
• The difficult work of journalists exposing crimes in Afrin 

  Northern Syrian journalists said international media are silent on the genocide carried out by the Turkish army and mercenaries in Afrin 
• Migrants in Turkey handed over to gangs 

  The Turkish state is forcibly deporting the migrants, who they have used as blackmail material against Europe for years, to Idlib and Afrin.
• "We don’t accept Iran’s current stance or foreign intervention" 

  KODAR Co-chair Fuat Beritan spoke about the developments in Iran and stated that they don’t accept the Islamic Republic of Iran’s current stance or foreign intervention, and they will be taking on a third path.
• The pain of the Yazidi people in a psychologist’s experience 

  Berivan Zinzal told ANF of her work and emotional visits to Yazidi people leaving in camps in Kurdistan.
• Cultural annihilation and demographic change in Afrin 

  In Afrin, a human tragedy has been taking place before the eyes of the world. Cases of destruction, kidnapping, ransom, sexual violence and the systematic destruction of the nature are increasing day by day.
• YPG refutes HRW allegations on recruitment of child soldiers 

  YPG Spokesman strongly refuted HRW’s claims that YPG has been recruiting children, stressing that YPG stands against child recruitment.
• The developments in Iran and the importance of the PJAK project 

  The crisis between Iran and the US is gradually moving towards US intervention. The Kurdish and Balochi resistance acts cautiously towards this situation and relies on a solution from within.
• Afrin became a ghost town 

  Under the Turkish-Jihadist occupation, life is no longer possible in Afrin. The city has become a ghost town.
• Karayılan: We are ready for Shengal when needed 

  People’s Defense Center General Command Commander Murat Karayılan sent a written message to the YBŞ General Command on the 4th anniversary of the Shengal Genocide.