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• Karayılan: We must respond to the occupiers accordingly 

  PKK Executive Committee member Murat Karayılan stated that they are ready to fulfill their duties in order to protect the gains of Kurdish people in South, North, West and East Kurdistan, and called for responding to occupant forces accordingly.
• 57 gangs killed in Ebû Fas village 

  YPG Media Center announced that 57 ISIS gangs were killed and 5 panzers and 2 armored vehicles were destroyed during the clashes in Sheddade’s Ebû Fas village yesterday.
• Trustee appointed to Bitlis Municipality 

  Ministry of Interior Affairs appointed Bitlis governor Ahmet Çınar as trustee to Bitlis Municipality.
• Guerillas: We will crown the 39th year of our movement with victory 

  HPG and YJA Star guerillas spoke to ANF on the anniversary of the PKK’S establishment, and invited the youth of Kurdistan to join the PKK ranks as they said “We will enhance our struggle until our people and the peoples of the world are free.”
• Turkish warplanes target civilians once again 

  Residents of Banikê village stated that Turkish state forces consciously targeted them on November 21 in order to force the villagers to migrate or face massacres.
• Action in Şemdinli 

  An artillery action was carried out against the soldiers at the Gerdan Hill military base in the Derecik region of Hakkari’s Şemdinli district.
• Heavy clashes in villages to the west of Manbij 

  Occupant Turkish army and affiliated gangs have attacked the villages of Sebwêran and Girhuyok to the west of the Manbij city.
• Two more bodies retrieved from the mine in Siirt, 6 still trapped 

  Bodies of two more workers have been retrieved from the copper mine in Siirt where a landslide occurred 9 days ago.
• HSM: In the 39th year we will crown the freedom struggle with victory 

  HSM Headquarters Command: On the 39th year of our party we experience the determination to crown our people’s struggle for freedom with glory more than ever.
• Both Co-mayors of Bitlis and Güroymak arrested 

  Both co-mayors of Bitlis and its Güroymak district have been arrested as part of the increasingly ongoing operations of political genocide.
• MMC fighters rescue hundreds from villages to the west of Manbij 

  Manbij Military Council fighters rescued hundreds of civilians under the threat of massacre by the occupant Turkish army and affiliate gang groups.
• Kızıltepe Co-mayor Leyla Salman also detained 

  Kızıltepe Co-mayor Leyla Salman has also been taken into custody after the detention of the other co-mayor İsmail Ası earlier today.
• HPG reports ongoing guerrilla actions and Turkish military operations 

  HPG announced that guerrillas carried out actions in Şırnak and Hakkari, and the Turkish army launched an operation in Şırnak’s Cudi region.
• Rojava representatives meet with the HDP committee in Hewler 

  Democratic Autonomy Administration representatives for South Kurdistan met with the HDP committee in Hewler.
• Footage of the fourth Turkish tank destroyed in Manbij 

  Manbij Military Council Press Office released the footage of the fourth Turkish tank destroyed in Manbij, in the village of Sheikh Nasir to the west of the Manbij city.
• Arrested Co-mayor Ahmet Türk: We will not bow down 

  Ahmet Türk said "We lived through September 12 and the 90s, we did not bow down then and will not bow down now."
• Trial of HDP Co-chair Demirtaş held in Mardin 

  HDP Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş’s trial for “openly disparaging the state” over his comments in Cizre has started in the Mardin Criminal Court.
• Co-mayor of Kızıltepe detained 

  Co-mayor of Mardin's Kızıltepe district, İsmail Ası, has been taken into custody during a police raid on the municipality building Friday morning.
• AKP instructs banks: No loans for workers of DBP municipalities 

  Implementing the total dirty war concept against the Kurdish people, the AKP regime is preventing the workers in the usurped DBP municipalities from taking out loans.
• SDF: We are ready to respond to the attacks of Turkey and gang groups 

  SDF General Command announced that they were ready to support Manbij Military Council and respond if the Turkish army and its affiliate gang groups continue their attacks.
• Mardin Co-mayor Ahmet Türk arrested 

  Mardin Metropolitan Municipality Co-mayor Ahmet Türk has been arrested.
• Another Turkish tank destroyed in Manbij 

  Another tank of the invading Turkish army has been destroyed in Manbij.
• Death toll in copper mine landslide in Siirt rises to 8 

  The death toll is rising in the landslide in a copper mine in Siirt’s Şirvan district.
• Turkish army bombing villages in Manbij 

  Invading Turkish army is bombing the villages of Medîq, Boxaz and Ulaşlî in Manbij city.
• Guerrillas destroy a Turkish tank in Çukurca 

  1 tank of the Turkish army was destroyed and 2 soldiers were killed as a result of an action by HPG/YJA Star guerrillas near Martyr Zeki hill in Çukurca.