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• Turkish jets shell Zap region of guerrilla zones 

  Turkish jets continue conducting airstrikes against guerrilla-held Medya Defense Zones in South Kurdistan territory since yesterday.
• Families continue vigil for access to their children’s bodies in Sur 

  Families that had been on a hunger strike for 11 days in order to retrieve their children’s bodies criticized the Turkish state for its savagery and disregard for international conventions on war.
• Turkish warplanes bomb villages of Qandil 

  Turkish warplanes bombed villages of Qandil last night for 4 hours. The bombardment did not kill any civilians, but destroyed several houses and killed many livestock.
• Heavy clashes in Sur on the 65th day of the onslaught 

  Amed's central Sur district where a state of siege continues for 65 days is witnessing heavy clashes since early this morning.
• Turkish jets shell guerrilla zones in South Kurdistan 

  Turkish jets have been conducting airstrikes against PKK-held Medya Defense Zones in South Kurdistan territory since last night.
• No news from the Cizre basement for 5 days 

  It has been 5 days since the last news came from the basement in Cizre where wounded people had been waiting for medical care for 13 days now.
• Body of youth killed in Cizre 9 days ago cannot be retrieved 

  In Cizre district of Şırnak where a state of siege continues for 53 days, a youth killed by state forces 9 days ago remains in the neighborhood where he was killed.
• Sarıyıldız calls for UN action for dozens trapped in Cizre basement 

  HDP Şırnak deputy Faysal Sarıyıldız has written a letter to the United Nations Human Rights Council Commissariat to demand action for dozens of people trapped in a basement in Cizre for two weeks.
• Demirtaş calls upon the government to open a human corridor in Cizre 

  In a press release today, HDP Co-President Selahattin Demirtaş said that he was ready to go to Cizre with a team of medics and retrieve the wounded people there to the hospital.
• March to Sur blocked by police forces 

  Thousands in Amed have gathered around the Human Rights Monument in Koşuyolu Park today before a planned march to the central Sur district where a state of siege continues for 64 days.
• HDP-DBP delegation on their way to Nusaybin before heading to Cizre 

  A delegation from the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and Party of Democratic Regions (DBP) has left for Mardin's Nusaybin district before heading to Cizre district of Şırnak.
• More evidence on the execution of 6 people in Cizre 

  More evidence emerged on the execution of 6 people, one of whom is a woman, whose bodies were discovered in Cizre 2 days ago.
• Sarıyıldız: Cizre basement is no different than Hitler’s gas chambers 

  The situation of the wounded people waiting for an ambulance in the basement of a building for the past 12 days brings to mind the question of whether these wounded people were executed.
• Were the wounded in Cizre executed? 

  Photos of 8 executed bodies were published in AKP’s social media accounts.
• Curfew extended across entire Sur district in Amed 

  The curfew in force in 11 neighborhoods of Amed's central Sur district has been extended across the entire district.
• YPS: 18 members of Turkish forces killed in Sur and İdil 

  18 special operation police and soldiers were killed as a result of actions conducted by Civil Defense Units (YPS) in Şırnak, İdil and Sur on 31 January and 1 February.
• YPS: No clashes around the Cizre basement where people are trapped 

  Civil Defense Units (Yekîneyên Parastina Sivilan-YPS) said there were no YPS units deployed around the house where dozens remain trapped in a basement in Cizre, and that there was no fighting taking place in the area.
• Harms: EU can no more remain silent on the practices in Kurdish towns 

  MEP Rebecca Harms said the Turkish government's practices in the Kurdish region were unacceptable and constituted a huge violation of human rights, underlining that the situation was a matter of urgency.
• 15 police and soldiers killed in Sur since yesterday 

  In Sur district of Amed where an onslaught continues for the 63rd uninterrupted day, attacks by state forces have intensified today noon.
• Over 150 detained amid a heavy crackdown by state forces in Girêmîra 

  State forces have intensified their aggression on the people joining a vigil of resistance in Girêmîra neighborhood of Mardin's Nusaybin district.
• People walking to Cizre start vigil upon blockade by police 

  Hundreds of people from Şırnak, Gundikê Melê (Balveren) and Dêrgul (Kumçatı) towns have started to walk to Cizre to rescue the dozens who remain trapped in a basement for 11 days now.
• Shengal people salute the self-rule resistance in North Kurdistan 

  Êzîdî people living on Mount Shengal have staged a march to protest the Turkish state's massacres against civilians and salute the self-rule resistance in Bakurê (North) Kurdistan.
• 25 detained in police crackdown on vigil of resistance in Nusaybin 

  Police forces have attacked the people joining a vigil of resistance in Girêmîra neighborhood of Mardin's Nusaybin district.
• One youth killed, another heavily wounded by police in Adana 

  One youth has been shot dead and another heavily wounded by police during a crackdown on a demo in the southern province of Adana.
• Sarıyıldız: War crime committed in Cizre before the eyes of millions 

  HDP deputy Faysal Sarıyıldız stated that dozens of people who remain trapped in the basement of a largely demolished building in Cizre for 10 days are being sent to death before the eyes of millions.