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• Day 37 in Hewler hunger strike 

  The hunger strike launched by the HDP in Hewler is on day 37. HDP member Nasir Yagiz continues his unlimited nonalternating hunger strike as well.
• Patriotic Youth of East Kurdistan in solidarity with Leyla Guven 

  In East Kurdistan’s Bukan city Patriot Youth called on all components of the society to expand the struggle.
• Kakai people under threat of forced migration in Kirkuk 

  Kakai villages in Kirkuk’s Daquq district have been subjected to many ISIS attacks in the past, and are now facing pressure from Arabs settled in the region.
• HPG reports Turkish airstrike on Avashin 

  Turkish jets bombed Avashin.
• Solidarity hunger strike in Sulaymaniyah on day 12 

  Solidarity action in Sulaymaniyah to demand an end to the isolation regime imposed on Abdullah Öcalan reached day 12.
• New group takes over hunger strike in Maxmur 

  A new group has taken over the hunger strike held in the Maxmur Refugee Camp to break the isolation and achieve Ocalan’s freedom.
• Qandil people: The Turkish state can’t push us out of our village 

  Surede villagers attacked by the Turkish state said they won’t abandon their village.
• Turkish jets bomb civilian residential areas 

  Turkish fighter jets have bombed civilian residential areas. Two civilians were wounded in the attack and the villagers suffered damages to their orchards and groves. There were no guerrillas harmed in the attacks.
• 12 people detained in Van 

  12 people have been detained in house raids in Van’s Ercis and Muradiye districts.
• Three people detained in Lice 

  Several homes were raided in the operation launched in 7 neighborhoods and hamlets following the declaration of a curfew and 3 people were detained.
• Images from the village bombed by Turkish jets in Qandil 

  Turkish airstrikes targeted civilian areas in Saturday night’s bombardment in Qandil. Two people were injured, houses, trees, vineyards and orchards of the local people were damaged as a result of the bombardment.
• ISIS attack kills a policeman in Khanaqin 

  Snipers targeted a joint checkpoint of Germiyan Asayish Forces and Iraqi Federal Police.
• Turkish jets bomb villages in South Kurdistan 

  The Turkish state continues its genocidal attacks against the Kurdish population in various parts of Kurdistan.
• MEP Miranda: The issue of human rights in Kurdistan a big scandal 

  Following her visit to the DTK, Green Group MEP Ana Miranda said “there is a big problem with human rights in Kurdistan.”
• Earthquake victims without homes for another winter in Kermanshah 

  Victims of the earthquake of 7.3 magnitude in Kermanshah in Eastern Kurdistan face another winter without homes.
• Police turns Mother Taybet into “neutralized terrorist” 

  Van Police Directorate referred to Mother Taybet as “the terrorist organization member who was neutralized in December 2015”, thus inadvertently admitting that she was killed by state forces.
• Second group took over the hunger strike in Maxmur 

  Journalist Martyr Rizgar Deniz was commemorated in the first anniversary of his martyrdom at the Martyr Rustem Cudi camp (Maxmur). The second group of hunger strikers began fasting.
• Women take over the hunger strike in Hewlêr 

  Women took over the hunger strike launched in Hewlêr under the leadership of HDP Başurê Kurdistan Office.
• Hunger strikers in Sulaymaniyah: United we can stop the attacks 

  The solidarity hunger strike launched in Sulaymaniyah against isolation reached day 7. Activists said that united they could stop the Turkish attacks against Kirkuk, Shengal, Maxmur and Rojava.
• Gerîla TV publishes new footage from two actions 

  Gerîla TV has published new footage from the guerrilla actions in Sidekan and Igdir.
• Shengal Assembly: The corridor must be officially opened 

  The Shengal Democratic Autonomous Assembly stated that the corridor needs to be opened in an official protocol.
• Kurdish parties in Kirkuk condemn Turkish attacks 

  Representatives of the Kurdish parties in Kirkuk have condemned the Turkish state's attacks on settlement areas in southern Kurdistan, stressing that Turkey has no right to violate Iraqi sovereignty.
• Many students taken into custody in Dersim 

  Political genocide operations of the Turkish state continue uninterrupted.
• People of Shengal resisted - corridor open again 

  The protest by the people of Shengal has achieved results and the Rojava-Shengal Humanitarian Corridor has been reopened.
• Hunger strike starts in Rojhilat 

  A hunger strike has been launched in Rojhilat to protest the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan.