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• HPG pays tribute to guerrilla Azê Erdal 

  The HPG have announced the death of guerrilla Azê Erdal. The Kurdish woman, who grew up in Maxmur, died resisting the Turkish invasion of South Kurdistan.
• YJA Star guerrillas: The biggest answer to the conspiracy is to further expand the struggle 

  YJA Star guerrillas condemned the February 15 Conspiracy against Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan, and said: "The biggest answer to the conspiracy is to further expand the struggle in every field."
• Great March for Freedom continues despite the heavy snowfall 

  The "Great March for Freedom" continues despite the cold weather and heavy snowfall.
• Great Freedom March: The isolation of Öcalan will be broken 

  The Kars branch of the Great Freedom March was welcomed with great enthusiasm in Doğubeyazıt, Ağrı. DEM Party Bitlis MP Hüseyin Olan said, "We will not accept isolation and we will break it."
• HPG-YJA Star guerrillas: As isolation continues, guerrillas' operations also continue 

  HPG-YJA Star guerrillas said that Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan has put up great resistance in Imrali for 25 years and added: "As the isolation against the leader continues, the guerrillas' operations will continue."
• The 'Great Freedom March' in Northern Kurdistan continues: Open the gates of İmralı now 

  Democratic mass organisations and several institutions are organising the 'Great Freedom March' between 1-15 February to demand the physical freedom of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan. The march started from Kars and Van provinces yesterday.
• YJA Star guerrillas: Leader Öcalan strengthens our quest for freedom 

  YJA Star guerrillas said that Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan, who links the freedom of society to the freedom of women, is the greatest source of inspiration for them.
• Güneş: The path to peace and solution goes through Imrali 

  DEM Party Mardin MP Beritan Güneş has joined the Van branch of the Freedom March. “Our message is clear. The path to peace and solution goes through Imrali."
• KNK Co-Chair: Kurds should strive for a solution 

  Speaking at a press conference in Hewlêr, KNK Co-Chair Zeyneb Murad said, "Abdullah Öcalan's freedom will be the ground for a peaceful solution to the Kurdish people's legitimate cause" and stressed that Kurds should strive for a solution.
• The brave revolutionary with a smiling face 

  Martyr Cesur left deep traces with his honest and noble personality, his clarity of purpose and his love for guerrilla life. He was immortalized in the hearts of his comrades and the people as a smiling-faced heroic revolutionary.
• People's Defense Forces publish balance sheet of war for January 

  The monthly balance sheet includes the list of clashes, revolutionary operations and Turkish attacks. Guerrillas carried out a total of 79 separate actions against the Turkish army in January.
• Great March for Freedom kicks off in Van  

  The start of the "Great March for Freedom" in Van was announced with a press statement underlining that the purpose of the march was to lift the Imrali isolation and ensure the freedom of Abdullah Öcalan for the solution of the Kurdish question.
• The guerrilla shows that the PKK cannot be given a life expectancy 

  The guerrilla, with a steel will and Apoist spirit, leaning on the PKK's legacy of resistance, locked in the vision of a free Kurdistan with a free Leader, is fighting against a huge army that does not hesitate to commit any crime.
• The 'PKK centres' bombed by Turkey in northern Iraq turn out to be civilian homes 

  The Turkish state is bombing civilian settlements in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq) and trying to evacuate villages with the support of the ruling KDP.
• Resistance against the Iraqi army in Kirkuk on its 29th day 

  The resistance of the people of Newroz neighbourhood in Kirkuk against the occupation of the Iraqi army is on its 29th day.
• HPG releases footage of Turkish attacks with chemical and tactical nuclear weapons 

  The Turkish army used chemical and tactical nuclear weapons in the region of Metina in Medya Defense Areas. Footage of the attacks, in which HPG sources reported that 4 guerrillas fell as martyrs, was published.
• Week of action for a political solution to the Kurdish question in North Kurdistan 

  Week of action for a political solution to the Kurdish question will take place in North Kurdistan in February. “Let Abdullah Öcalan speak,” demanded DEM MP Sinan Çiftyürek at a press conference in Amed.
• Maxmur residents condemn the KDP attack on guerrillas, calling for an end to betrayal 

  In Şehîd Rûstem Cûdî Camp, residents protested the KDP's attack on the guerrilla together with the occupying Turkish state and called on the Kurdish people to take a stance for national unity against betrayal.
• ‘The freedom fighters who resisted in Kobanê also took revenge for Shengal’ 

  Making a statement on the 9th anniversary of the liberation of Kobanê, the Democratic Autonomous Administration of Shengal said, "The guerrillas and freedom fighters who resisted in Kobanê also took revenge for Shengal."
• Production in Kormor gas field stopped 

  It has been reported that production in the Kormor gas field, which was the target of a missile attack in Sulaymaniyah, in South Kurdistan, has stopped.
• 25 young people join the Êzîdxan Asayish 

  25 people who graduated after the training at the Martyr Shengal Academy joined the Êzîdxan Asayish. Addressing the Yazidi youth, Ebdo Elî, from the Academy, said: “The Yazidi nation is entrusted to our youth. It is up to us to defend them."
• Turkey bombs village in Amediye 

  The Turkish Air Force bombed a village in Amediye, South Kurdistan. The bombs fell in the immediate vicinity of an estate located in the same town where a guerrilla group was ambushed by the KDP on Wednesday.
• Iranian Supreme Court upholds Kurdish political prisoner’s death sentence 

  38-year-old Kurdish political prisoner Yousef Ahmadi, from Baneh in Kurdistan Province, faces imminent execution following the court’s confirmation.
• HPG: Two guerrillas were injured in KDP ambush 

  HPG reported that two guerrillas were injured in an ambush by a KDP force in the Sergelê district in southern Kurdistan. The scene of the confrontation was then bombed by the Turkish army.
• Mass grave used as garbage dump 

  A mass grave was discovered in Xîzan, in North Kurdistan, in 2011. Instead of carrying out forensic investigations, all that happens is that the city administration dumps garbage and building rubble over the bones of those murdered.