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• Labour and Freedom Alliance will meet on Sunday in Berlin 

  The Labour and Freedom Alliance - Berlin has called for participation in the meeting to be held tomorrow, Sunday, in Berlin to get organized before and after the 14 May elections.
• 60 million 904 thousand people will vote in 14 May elections  

  A total of 60 million 904 thousand people both in the country and abroad will vote in the elections scheduled for 14 May.
• HDP to run in elections under the umbrella of the Green Left Party 

  The HDP will contest the parliamentary elections in Turkey on 14 May under the umbrella of the Green Left Party. Mithat Sancar explained that the risks of running as the HDP were too great because of the ongoing proceedings to ban the party.
• Death toll from flood in Urfa rises to 21 

  After a series of earthquakes in February, North Kurdistan was hit by heavy floods after heavy rainfall in mid-March.
• Municipality of Vienna hosts Newroz reception 

  Ambassadors from Japan, Italy, Ireland and Czechoslovakia, KNK members, councillors, parliamentarians, journalists, representatives of non-governmental organizations, former HDP Mayor Leyla İmret and ninth Vienna Mayor Saya Ahmad were among the guests.
• Economist Müftüoğlu: There is a need for an alternative economic program 

  Economist Özgür Müftüoğlu stated that an alternative and concrete economic plan should be brought up during the election process in Turkey.
• Ilham Ehmed calls on the international community to “act responsibly towards the Kurds” 

  Ilham Ehmed urged the international community to end the genocidal policies against the Kurds.
• Street seller and his two sons beaten by police in the street 

  A street seller and his two sons were subjected to police torture in the middle of the street in the Qereyazî district of Erzurum.
• EHP chair: We must get rid of the one-man regime 

  The EHP chair, Hakan Öztürk, said that the Labor and Freedom Alliance would first send away the one-man regime and then would continue to fight for the solutions to deep-rooted issues.
• US targets pro-Iranian forces in Syria in retaliation for drone attack 

  The United States reported that they carried out airstrikes on pro-Iranian forces in Syria. According to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, 8 people belonging to pro-Iranian forces were killed in the attack.
• Freedom for Öcalan flag unfurled during Euro League basketball match in Athens 

  A "Freedom for Öcalan" flag was unfurled during the Euro League basketball match between Panathinaikos and Barcelona in Athens.
• Speaker of British Parliament hosts Newroz reception 

  British Parliament Speaker Sir Lindsay Hoyle hosted a reception to celebrate Newroz.
• Documentary about the Internationalist Long March 2023 

  The organisers of the internationalist Long March in Switzerland in February have published an impressive documentary on Vimeo.
• KON-MED calls for participation in the Newroz celebration to be held in Frankfurt on Saturday 

  KON-MED co-chairs called for participation in the Newroz celebration to be held in Frankfurt, on Saturday 25 March.
• Lawyers take acquittal of people responsible for Umut Bookshop bombing to Constitutional Court 

  The acquittal of non-commissioned officers, Ali Kaya and Özcan İldeniz, and Veysel Ateş, who confessed to the crime, the authors of the bomb attack on the Umut Bookstore, was brought to the Constitutional Court.
• HDP offers Ferit Şenyaşar to be a candidate to the next elections 

  The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) made an offer to Ferit Şenyaşar, who has been demanding justice with his mother in Urfa for the killings of his relatives.
• Newroz celebration in Bologna 

  Newroz celebrations in Italy continued with an event in Bologna.
• DBP Co-Chair Keskin Bayındır released from prison 

  DBP Co-Chair Keskin Bayındır is on trial in Amed on terror charges, facing up to 15 years imprisonment. At the start of the trial, the Kurdish politician was surprisingly released from prison.
• Activists at Geneva vigil demand “Freedom for Öcalan” 

  Since the beginning of 2021, activists have protested the Turkish state's war against the Kurds and the freedom of Öcalan with a vigil in front of the UN headquarters in Geneva.
• KCDK-E calls for mobilization for Newroz in Frankfurt 

  The KCDK-E called for mobilization to “turn Frankfurt Newroz into a Newroz of national unity and victory”.
• Co-Chair of German SPD party visits HDP in Ankara 

  Co-Chair of the German Social Democratic Party (SPD), Lars Klingbeil, visited the People’s Democratic Party (HDP).
• Labour and Freedom Alliance will not field a presidential candidate 

  The Labour and Freedom Alliance will not field a candidate for the presidential elections in Turkey, announced the HDP Co-Chair Pervin Buldan in Ankara today.
• Kurds celebrate Newroz in Britain 

  The British city of Liverpool witnessed the most spectacular Newroz celebration of the recent years, while thousands attended the traditional "Youth Newroz" in London.
• Kurdish teen brutally beaten and thrown into a swamp by the police 

  Turkish police threw a 14-year-old boy in the Lice district of Amed into a swamp by a stream bed with his mouth and hands tied after terribly beating him.
• Earthquake survivor says aid only came from people 

  Earthquake survivor Ahmet Çankaya, who lives in the village of Osmandede in Pazarcık, said that they did not receive any help from the state and that most aid came from the people.