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• KCK calls for "celebrating the 50th party year with a very strong Newroz festival" 

  The KCK calls for "celebrating the 50th party year with a very strong Newroz festival" and making it a year "of smashing fascism, liberating Öcalan and the Kurdish people."
• HSM: We welcome Newroz with the determination to liberate our leader physically 

  “We welcome our 50th Leadership Newroz with the determination to physically liberate our leader. We express our determination to fight ferociously until we crown our goal of Free Leader-Free Kurdistan with victory.”
• Guerrillas celebrate Newroz in Heftanin 

  NATO's second largest army has failed to drive guerrillas from the Heftanin region of southern Kurdistan despite years of bombardment. This is shown by footage of a group of fighters celebrating Newroz in the mountains.
• YJA Star guerrillas: Newroz 2022 will mark the success of our resistance 

  YJA Star guerrillas Darsîn Amed and Hesret Dilgêş celebrated Newroz and said that they will defeat today's tyrants through struggle.
• Mêrdîn: The spirit of 8 March resistance will be seen in Newroz as well! 

  KJK Coordination Member Rewşen Mêrdîn emphasized the need for women's organization and alliance against the patriarchal system's efforts to dismantle women's achievements and said the spirit of 8 March will be seen in Newroz.
• KCK: All those responsible for massacres like Halabja will be held accountable! 

  Condemning the Halabja Massacre, the KCK said: "The best attitude to protect Halabja today is to oppose the Turkish state's use of chemical weapons."
• Hakkari is getting ready for Newroz 

  Hakkari Newroz Organizing Committee member Kadir Şahin said that they would welcome this year's Newroz under the motto "Dem Dema to Serkeftinê ye" (Time for Victory) on March 20, and in Gever, Şemzînan and Çelê on March 21.
• Guerrillas celebrate Newroz in Zagros: We are prepared for everything! 

  At a guerrilla Newroz celebration in the Zagros Mountains, HPG commander Amed Malazgirt said there was a possibility that the coming year would be even more difficult than the past one. The guerrillas have prepared themselves accordingly, he noted.
• Victims of Halabja Massacre commemorated across South Kurdistan 

  People paid tribute to victims of the Halabja Massacre in several cities of South Kurdistan.
• 'The Turkish state maintains the genocide in Halabja' 

  Commemorating the victims of Halabja massacre, parties and organisations stressed that the Kurdish people kept on fighting despite the genocides. It was stated that the Turkish government is still carrying out genocides.
• Dr. Berwarî: There is a lesson to be learned from Halabja 

  Stating that the Kurds should learn from Halabja, Anfal, and Shengal, otherwise similar events will continue to happen, Kamuran Berwari said that “Whoever takes the enemy's hand becomes an accomplice in the massacres."
• Kurdistan Alliance remembers Halabja: Chemicals weapons are still used in Kurdistan 

  In a statement, parties in the Kurdistan Alliance Working Group commemorated those who lost their lives in the Halabja Massacre. The alliance said that chemical weapons are still used in the mountains of Kurdistan.
• Guerrillas: We will win a victory with the spirit of Newroz 

  “We will lead this war to victory with the spirit of Newroz,” say the guerrillas fighting in the mountains of Kurdistan.
• Still no news about HDP member Musa Çiftçi, detained in Hewler by KDP forces 

  HDP member Musa Çiftçi was detained by the KDP Asayish at the entrance to Hewler 8 days ago. It was learned that Çiftçi was held in Gişti Public Security in Hewler.
• 16 March 1988: Remembering the Halabja massacre 

  Today marks 34 years since Saddam Hussein massacred thousands of his own people in a chemical attack on the city of Halabja.
• ‘The Newroz fire built by Kawa the Blacksmith will not die down’ 

  HPG and YJA Star guerrillas celebrated the peoples of the Middle East for the upcoming Newroz and vowed to “make the 2022 Newroz the Newroz of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan's physical freedom” and to “increase our struggle”.
• Newroz fire lit in Beytüşşebap: "The time of victory has come" 

  This year's celebrations of the resistance and New Year festival Newroz have started in Northern Kurdistan. "The time of victory, the time of freedom for Abdullah Öcalan has come,” said DTK co-chair Berdan Öztürk.
• KDP deploys troops and armored vehicles to Heftanin 

  The KDP in Southern Kurdistan, which collaborates with Turkey, is deploying troops to Heftanin. The troop deployment represents a new provocation against the guerrillas.
• MLKP: Let's light the Newroz fire in all areas! 

  Celebrating this year’s Newroz, MLKP Kurdistan Organization raised concern over the ongoing genocidal and colonial attacks and called for the lighting of the Newroz fire more intensely in all areas.
• HPG pays tribute to Serhat martyrs 

  Guerrillas Bager, Mazlum, Harun and Agît fell as martyrs fighting the Turkish army in the northern Kurdish region of Serhat in 2019. The HPG have published information about their identity.
• Guerrillas: 2022 will be the year of our nation's victory and freedom 

  Guerrillas said that “this year will be the year of our nation's victory and freedom,” emphasizing that the people and the guerrilla should contribute to the process with the spirit of Newroz in a struggle for survival.
• People of Van react against massive price hikes 

  Massive price hikes continue to overwhelm the peoples of Northern Kurdistan and Turkey The people of Van reacted by saying that it's not a price hike, but cruelty against citizens.
• Turkey bombs a village in South Kurdistan 

  The Turkish state continues its genocidal attacks in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq).
• ISIS attacks Iraqi forces in Maxmur, kills two soldiers 

  Iraqi forces were attacked by ISIS mercenaries on Mount Qereçox in the Maxmur district of Mosul. Two soldiers lost their lives.
• Gerîla TV broadcasts footage of action carried out on 27 July 2021 

  Gerîla TV broadcast footage of an action carried out on 27 July 2021, in which 1 Kirpi vehicle was destroyed and 6 invading Turkish soldiers were killed.