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• HDP co-chairs to join the protest against the detention of co-mayors 

  HDP co-chairs Selahattin Demirtaş and Figen Yüksekdağ will also join the mass protest to be staged in Amed city today against the detention co-mayors.
• GABB calls for immediate action against the AKP targeting municipalities 

  The Union of Southeastern Anatolia Region Municipalities called on international community to act immediately to protest the anti-democratic and unjust policy waged by the Turkish government targeting Kurdish municipalities and their co-mayors.
• HDP: Erdoğan-AKP rule will not be able to confiscate people’s will 

  HDP stated that Erdoğan-AKP rule continues to breach people’s will with sense of vengeance, and that this hostile approach towards political will of Kurdish people aims at dissolving democratic politics and democratic opposition.
• Amed Municipality co-mayors Kışanak and Anlı detained - UPDATE 

  Amed Metropolitan Municipality Co-mayors Gültan Kışanak and Fırat Anlı were taken into custody by anti-terror police teams in Amed city late Tuesday evening.
• Co-mayors of Amed Metropolitan Municipality detained 

  Amed Metropolitan Municipality Co-mayors Gültan Kışanak and Fırat Anlı were taken into custody by anti-terror police teams in Amed city.
• Turkish-backed gangs attack Revolutionary Forces with chemicals 

  Gang groups backed by the occupant Turkish army are bombing the positions of Revolutionary Forces in Til Madiq village with chemicals.
• Jabhat al-Akrad fighters: The Turkish state can’t make us step back 

  Jabhat al-Akrad fighters declared that they will increase the fight against the Turkish state’s attacks.
• Two reporters for DIHA detained in Suruç 

  Two reporters for Dicle News Agency (DIHA) have been detained by police in Urfa's Suruç district.
• SNC-affiliated gangs attack villages in Efrîn's Shera district 

  Turkish backed gang groups affiliated to the so-called Syrian National Coalition are conducting artillery attacks on villages in Shera district of Efrîn.
• Turkish soldiers kill another civilian from Rojava on the border 

  Soldiers of Turkish army shot and killed a young man named Elî Temî on the border with Rojava, West Kurdistan.
• The state threatens to "burn the people together with the tents" in Şırnak 

  HPD MP İrmez said the families who refused to leave Şırnak and set up tents on the perimeter of the city were forced to move, that the state threatened the people with “burning them together with the tents”.
• HPG statement on Kirkuk 

  HPG issued a statement on the clashes in Kirkuk and said: “The Kurdistan Guerilla is responsible for the safety of our people and the peoples of the region against all possible attacks and will always be ready to fulfill this duty.”
• YPG statement on the attacks by ISIS gangs and the Turkish state 

  YPG reported ongoing attacks by ISIS gangs and the invading Turkish army against their forces in Kobanê and Cizîr cantons.
• 25-year-old shot by police in Van dies 

  Civilian İyeç Çakır who was shot by police in Van last month, has died.
• Balance sheet of the ISIS attack on Kirkuk 

  During the clashes with ISIS gangs that attacked Kirkuk last Friday, 74 ISIS members were neutralized while over 30 peshmergas, asayish members and civilians lost their lives.
• Turkish army and affiliated gangs bomb Til Rıfat 

  Turkish army and affiliated gangs bombed Til Rifat (Arfêd) town, Hesiye village and Shehba Dam with howitzer, mortar and katyusha fire yesterday evening.
• Police kill a 5-year-old in Cizre 

  Turkish police killed a 5-year-old child in Cizre district of Şırnak.
• People remove the wire fences in Nusaybin 

  People have removed the wire fences surrounding the Kanîka neighborhood in Mardin's Nusaybin district.
• State forces pull down the tents of displaced residents in Şırnak 

  State forces are pulling down the tents set up by the people on the periphery of the Şırnak city due to the curfew declared on March 14 and is still in place after 9 months.
• One killed, two wounded in bomb attack in Qamishlo 

  Bomb attack in Şerqî neighborhood of Rojava's Qamishlo city left one civilian dead, two others wounded.
• 4 members of Turkish backed gangs killed in Shehba 

  Revolutionary Forces carried out an action on Turkish backed gang groups, leaving 4 members of theirs dead.
• Displaced families in Şırnak forcibly evacuated from the tents 

  The police have started to forcibly evacuate families who had to leave the city during the attacks in Şırnak and have been struggling to live in the tents they set up on the outskirts for months.
• Curfew in two villages of Bitlis amid a military operation 

  Curfew has been declared in Olek and Oleka Jor villages of Bitlis in the wake of an operation launched by the Turkish army in the region.
• Migrants from Shehba in need of urgent aid 

  Efrîn Canton Human Rights Organisation has announced that the migrants in the Shehba camp are in need of urgent aid.
• People fleeing ISIS gangs head for the Kirkuk border 

  ISIS gangs’ attacks on Kirkuk city center hasn’t stopped since October 21. Hundreds more people fleeing from sub-districts and villages have reached the Kirkuk border.