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• New police operation against DEM Party and DBP  

  Many people, including DEM Party members and DBP Provincial co-chairs, were taken into custody in Siirt on Thursday night.
• Shengal Autonomous Administration calls for action after Turkish attack which killed 5 workers 

  The Autonomous Administration calls on people to gather in Khanasor tomorrow morning to denounce the genocidal attacks of the occupying Turkish state.
• Turkish airstrike targets a village in South Kurdistan 

  The Turkish state continues its genocidal attacks in various parts of Kurdistan. After a deadly aerial attack which claimed 5 lives in Shengal, Turkey carried out another airstrike in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq) today.
• Turkish airstrike kills 5 workers in Shengal 

  The Turkish state, which has been frustrated by the liberation of Shengal and the military and political organization of the Yazidi community after ISIS' genocidal attack in 2014, has been attacking Shengal for 6 years.
• Victims of Roboski massacre commemorated 

  Speaking at the commemoration in Roboski, DEM Party Co-Chair Tülay Hatimoğulları said: "The mentality that carried out the Roboski massacre is the same mentality that carries out massacres in Rojava today."
• YRK: Turkish state bombed civilian areas in Pênciwen 

  YRK stated that Turkey attacked civilian areas in Pênciwên and called on the Kurdish people and their friends to take a stand against the fascist Turkish state's invasion attacks.
• Roboski Massacre, the struggle for justice continues 

  Twelve years ago today, 34 people were killed in Roboski when Turkish air forces bombed a group of mostly under 18 border traders in the northern Kurdish province of Şırnak. The families are demanding justice.
• Turkish state bombs Sulaymaniyah countryside 

  Warplanes of the occupying Turkish state bombed the Kanî Mîran and Salyawa villages in the Pênciwên district of Sulaymaniyah 5 times on Wednesday.
• Footage of guerrilla action at Girê Amêdîyê 

  Images from guerrilla areas prove the serious losses suffered by Turkish forces in the guerrilla areas in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq, which are denied or concealed by the Turkish state.
• HSM congratulates guerrillas on revolutionary operations against Turkish troops 

  “A strong and powerful army and state fights against the military force that confronts it, not against the defenseless civilian population and, above all, not against the livelihoods of the civilian population,” said the HSM.
• KCK calls for increased struggle to demand accountability for the Roboskî Massacre 

  The KCK Executive Council issued a statement about the 13th anniversary of the massacre of Roboskî.
• Turkey bombs villages in Qandil 

  The Turkish state bombed the villages of Silê and Bolê in Qandil. It was reported that warplane activity continues in the region.
• KCK: The guerrilla proved its superiority over the occupying Turkish army 

  KCK stated that the aim of the genocidal colonialist Turkish state is to liquidate the Rojava revolution by invading Rojava and to eliminate the status achieved by the Kurdish people.
• Soldiers settle in tents they set up in a village under military siege in Şırnak countryside 

  Turkish soldiers are reported to have settled in the tents they set up in the Hespist village which they have blockaded.
• Investigation launched and at least 30 detained after DEM Party Youth Congress in Amed 

  After the DEM Party Youth Congress in Amed ended, the participants were subjected to police attack and at least 30 people were detained.
• YRK announces the names of two guerrillas martyred in Turkish attack  

  HPJ commander Aryen Arê and YRK fighter Êrîş Berxwedan were martyred in a Turkish airstrike in Pêncewîn in the Kurdistan Region of Iraq on 3 December.
• HPG: 34 soldiers were killed in Girê Amediyê Revolutionary Operation 

  The HPG Press Center said in a statement that the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrillas, killed 34 soldiers in Zap after the victory in Xakurke.
• HPG pays tribute to guerrillas Binevş and Serab who fell as martyrs in Zap 

  Mahir Binevş and Azad Serab died in June in the Zap region of South Kurdistan. The HPG honors the fallen guerrilla fighters as symbolic figures of Kurdish-Arab coexistence.
• HPG: 36 Turkish soldiers were killed in Xakurke and Metîna 

  HPG reported that 36 soldiers of the Turkish occupying forces were killed in the guerrilla areas in a revolutionary operation and a coordinated action on 22 December.
• Police raid a wedding, detain 3 in Urfa 

  The police raided a street wedding in Urfa, opened fire in the air, and detained 3 people.
• Turkish forces attack commemoration for Paris massacre victim Mîr Perwer in Muş 

  The police and gendarmerie prevented people from commemorating Kurdish singer Mîr Perwer, who was murdered in Paris one year ago, at his grave. Mîr Perwer's family was attacked during the crackdown.
• Living in Hakkari in 2023 was like living in an open prison 

  In Hakkari the state of emergency was implemented uninterruptedly. The year 2023 was marked by heavy human rights violations and arbitrary bans. Existing laws are suspended, and the people literally live in an open prison.
• Action by Kurdistan Freedom Guerrillas in Xakurkê leaves 27 Turkish soldiers dead 

  27 Turkish soldiers were killed and 17 weapons were seized in an operation carried out by the Kurdistan Freedom Guerrillas in Xakurkê.
• Kurdish alliance votes increase by 20,000 in Kirkuk 

  PUK Kirkuk Election Bureau Head Şêrzad Samet stated that the special vote counting in Kirkuk was completed and announced that the ‘Kirkuk is Our Strength and Will’ alliance received 20 thousand more votes.
• Three people detained in Roboski 

  A few days before the twelfth anniversary of the massacre in Roboski, Turkish soldiers stormed the village and detained residents without giving a reason.