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• HPG reports actions by YJA Star guerrillas 

  People's Defense Forces (HPG) Press Office reported actions conducted by guerrillas against Turkish troops in Metina and Hakkari, as well as ongoing attacks and activities of the Turkish military against guerrilla zones.
• Families of Cizre massacre victims: We will never abandon home 

  Families of the people massacred in Cizre condemned the AKP and Erdoğan, and stated that they would not abandon Cizre.
• İdil Municipality bombarded by Turkish state forces 

  Photos portraying the destruction of İdil Municipality bombarded by Turkish state forces emerged. In the photos, the municipality’s main building and garden are destroyed.
• Civilians reportedly executed by state forces while leaving İdil 

  In İdil district of Şırnak where a state of siege continues for 21 days, reports are coming through that 13 civilians were executed by state forces deployed in the town.
• Children evacuated from Sur taken away from their families 

  The state is taking away children from their mothers and fathers, who managed to survive the massacre in Sur. The children are put into dormitories without the families’ knowledge or consent.
• Nine people including a baby evacuated from Sur arrested 

  9 more people evacuated from Amed's central Sur district in recent days have been remanded in custody.
• Families in Sur demand their children’s bodies for 3 months 

  As state forces’ genocidal attacks and siege in Sur continues for the 97th day, bodies of many slain people have not been delivered to their families yet.
• Bombardment in Sur injures 50 people 

  50 people including children were injured as a result of state forces’ bombardment of civilians in Amed's central Sur district.
• HPG: 26 soldiers killed in Oremar 

  HPG said guerrillas launched an expansive action from three sides against Turkish troops deployed on Martyr Bager, Martyr Rahime and Martyr Zerdeşt hills in Oremar region at the border of Hakkari's Yüksekova district.
• Death toll in Sheikh Maqsoud reaches 17 

  Jihadist gangs have been attacking the Sheikh Maqsoud (Şêx Meqsûd) neighborhood of Aleppo since March 6.
• State forces in İdil massacre 10 people and carry their bodies on a tractor 

  State forces have massacred 10 people in İdil's Turgut Özal neighborhood and carried their bodies to İdil State Hospital on a tractor they had seized from the municipality.
• HPG/ YJA Star guerrillas: Our people are not alone 

  HPG and YJA Star guerrillas put emphasis on the need to enhance the struggle in order for an entire elimination of genocidal policies pursued against the Kurdish people.
• Marks of Turkish state terror in Cizre – II 

  Images by ANF show the marks of the terror and massacre committed by Turkish state's 'security forces' in Cizre where some 200 people were savagely massacred as an end to the state of siege that remained in effect for some three months.
• Cizre resistance through children’s eyes 

  As residents return to Cizre after state forces’ massacres, children affected by war and destruction see the world through their own perspectives.
• State garrison in Cizre resembles Raqqa 

  The discovery of currency from Syria, the United Arab Emirates, Russia and Hungary in the garrison of state forces in Cizre points at Turkey’s use of jihadist gangs in its genocidal attacks.
• Marks of Turkish state terror in Cizre 

  Images by ANF show the marks of the terror and massacre committed by Turkish state's 'security forces' in Şırnak's Cizre district.
• HPG reports ongoing operations and bombardments by Turkish army 

  HPG reported ongoing bombardments by Turkish military on South and North Kurdistan.
• HPG: 14 special operation police killed in Nusaybin 

  HPG stated that guerrillas conducted an expansive action in Nusaybin in retaliation to the massacres in North Kurdistan, and in memory of the 4 guerrillas killed in Mardin, and the people martyred in Sur and Cizre.
• Sur under ongoing bombardment by Turkish forces 

  Historic popular resistance endures for the 95th uninterrupted day in Amed's central Sur district which remains under tank and artillery fire of state forces.
• YPG: Turkish army shelled our positions 7 times during February 

  171 members of gang groups were killed and 89 combatants of YPG fell fighting during the month of February. Turkish military continued its attacks against YPG positions in Rojava, West Kurdistan.
• SDF troops making further advances northeast of Raqqa 

  The military campaign Wrath of Êlîn and Cûdî launched by Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) in west of Mount Kizwan and northeast of Raqqa continues in its fourth day.
• Turkish military bombs Efrîn's Dîkmedaş village 

  Turkish military has bombed Dîkmedaş village of Efrîn Canton in Rojava, West Kurdistan.
• Emergency aid appeal by Heyva Sor for North Kurdistan 

  Heyva Sor a Kurdistanê has launched a campaign for North Kurdistan under the slogan “With the same moral and enthusiasm for Kobane and Sengal, lets help and support Cizîr, Sûr, Silopî, Hezex, Nisêbîn and Kerboran”.
• PKK and PAJK prisoners begin indefinite alternate hunger strike 

  PKK (Kurdistan Worker's Party) and PAJK (Kurdistan Women's Liberation Party, Partiya Azadiya Jin a Kurdistan) prisoners have begun an indefinite and alternate hunger strike in jails across Turkey and North Kurdistan.
• Simultaneous actions target state forces in Nusaybin 

  State forces were hit by simultaneous actions in Mardin's Nusaybin district which remains under a siege despite there being no curfew in force.