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• Support Afrin Front visits Autonomous Administration Office 

  Members of the Support Afrin Front visited the Autonomous Administration Representation Office in Sulaymaniyah and announced that they will be holding conferences and events on Rojava.
• PKK’s Karayılan: We enter 2019 with resistance 

  PKK executive Murat Karayilan stressed they enter 2019 with the resistance of hunger strikes and the resilience stance of the society, saying: “This resistance process will be fortified, and it will achieve results.”
• HPG guerrilla from Raqqa: The threat of ISIS continues 

  HPG guerrilla Agit Reqa said Raqqa has been liberated but the threat of ISIS continues.
• Rojhilat people in solidarity with Güven against isolation 

  Kurdish families from Rojhilat (East Kurdistan), in exile in Kurdistan Region of Iraq (South Kurdistan), issued a message announcing their support with imprisoned Kurdish politician Leyla Guven.
• Maxmur hunger strikers: Let’s free our leader 

  Hunger strikers in Maxmur saluted co-chair of the DTK and HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven as well as activists in Strasbourg.
• New guerrilla model to be created in 2019 

  People’s Defense Center Headquarters Command issued a new years’ message for the command and fighter structure and promised to create a victory guerrilla and a new guerrilla model. The Command warned that the war will escalate in 2019.
• Two Kurdish kolbars shot by Iranian regime forces 

  Two Kurdish kolbars were injured as result of another shooting by Islamic Republic of Iran’s border guards near Urmia and Baneh in Rojhilat, East Kurdistan.
• Lake Urmia slowly regaining life 

  Lake Urmia in Iran has seen its size greatly reduced due to climate changes but also wrong human policies.
• Guerrillas seize weapons from Turkish forces in Sidekan - Footage 

  Gerîla TV continues to expose the truths in the war between the Turkish state and Kurdish Freedom Movement.
• First Conference of Patriotic Youth held in Kirkuk 

  The Patriotic Youth in Kirkuk organized their first conference with the motto ‘We will defeat the isolation, defend our unity and liberate Kurdistan.’
• PKK: Isolation will be broken, AKP-MHP fascism will fall in 2019 

  The PKK has called on all to unite against the bane of humanity AKP-MHP fascism, show solidarity with the Kurdish people’s struggle for existence and freedom and to actively fight against AKP-MHP fascism together in 2019.
• More Kurdish citizens arrested in Iran 

  According to the Kurdish Human Rights Network's investigation, more than 15 Kurdish citizens are currently being interrogated in the Central Intelligence Office and the IRGC Intelligence in the cities of Sanandaj and Urmia.
• Heyva Sor helps flood victims in Qandil 

  The Kurdish aid organization Heyva Sor a Kurdistanê supports the victims of heavy rainfall in Qandil region of southern Kurdistan, northern Iraq.
• Snowfall covers East Kurdistan 

  Snowfall has started in Eastern Kurdistan since yesterday. Roads have been blocked in some mountainous areas due to heavy snowing.
• Encu: We will keep seeking justice for Roboski victims 

  Veli Encu who lost a brother and 33 of his relatives as a result of Turkish airstrikes in Roboski in 2011 said they will continue their quest for justice, “Be it in the bottom of a deep well, we will keep looking for justice,” Encu said.
• Turkish jets bomb villages in South Kurdistan 

  Turkish state continues its genocidal attacks against the Kurdistan territory.
• Memorial in Roboski: Murderers will be held to account 

  Roboski families called on the AKP and said, “Our 36 brothers were killed by soldiers under your government’s orders” and proposed a conference.
• Roboski residents remember relatives they lost 

  Roboski residents are holding memorials on the 7th anniversary of the Roboski Massacre committed by the Turkish state.
• Encu: We have been killed due to our identity and our belonging 

  Ferhat Encu wrote a letter on the anniversary of the Roboski Massacre and said, “We know the perpetrators of this massacre. We weren’t killed just because we were poor, we were killed because of our identity and our belonging.”
• 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.