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• Donation campaign in London for earthquake victims in Turkey and Kurdistan  

  Kurdish and Turkish revolutionary organisations collect donations for earthquake-hit regions at train stations, stadiums, streets and central locations across London.
• Risk of epidemic diseases increases in Hatay 

  On the seventh day of the earthquake in Hatay, some parts of the city started to heavily smell dead. People’s anger towards the state has also increased.
• Calgary Shepard deputy calls on Canadian people to help earthquake victims 

  Tom Kmiec, a deputy from the Conservative Party, for Calgary Shepard, spoke about the earthquake in the Canadian Parliament.
• Activists in Rome protest 15 February 1999 International Conspiracy 

  Kurds living in Italy and their friends protested the International Conspiracy that led to the capture of Abdullah Öcalan with a march in Rome.
• Ministry of Environment says 7,584 buildings collapsed as a result of earthquake 

  The Ministry of Environment, Urbanization and Climate Change announced that 7,584 buildings were destroyed and 12,617 were damaged in the earthquake that affected 10 provinces.
• Türk: There is no such thing as a state today 

  Ahmet Türk, who lost 17 relatives in the earthquake that hit Adiyaman (Semsûr), said in a statement after examining the wreckage areas: "There is no such thing as a state today."
• Buldan and Kılıçdaroğlu in Amed: We want to heal the wounds together 

  CHP and HDP leaders met in Amed to assess the situation after the earthquake. "Forget political differences for a moment. Times of crisis are also times of solidarity, which heals and unites," they said.
• ‘Not the state, but revolutionaries and patriots reach out to earthquake survivors’ 

  Unionist Osman Ünel stated that official institutions started coming to Antakya only after the third day of the earthquake.
• Turkey opens border crossing with Armenia after 30 years 

  For 30 years, the borders between Armenia and Turkey were closed. In order to secure aid for the survivors of the earthquake in Turkey, the borders have now been opened.
• Unnamed source: More than 150,000 people died in the earthquake 

  According to the information given by a source from the AKP, the number of people who lost their lives in the earthquake is more than 150,000. Turkish Interior Minister Soylu allegedly instructed governors to remove the debris together with the dead.
• Former CHP leader Deniz Baykal passed away 

  Deniz Baykal, the former chair of the CHP, passed away.
• Scandal in Osmaniye State Hospital 

  People who died in the hospital in Osmaniye, one of the places that suffered great destruction in the earthquake that hit Turkey and Kurdistan on 6 February, are put in a black bag and thrown into the corridors.
• Civil Society Solidarity in Armutlu 

  The earthquake victims were left to their fate in the neighbourhood of Armutlu in the Defne district of Hatay, where the state teams arrived 4 days later.
• Mountain villages of Adiyaman cannot be reached 

  In Adiyaman, search and rescue efforts continue, but many mountain villages around the city cannot be reached.
• People of Elbistan call for help: "Get our dead out of the rubble!" 

  Search and rescue work in the district of Elbistan, which was hardest hit by the earthquake, is progressing slowly. People are sleeping in the open, complaining: "We want tents, but the state won't even give us a scrap of cloth."
• MP İpekyüz: There is a very urgent need for tents and heating in Adıyaman 

  HDP deputy Necdet İpekyüz said that there is still a need for tents, stoves and hygiene products in Adiyaman province hit by two powerful earthquakes on Monday.
• Participants of long marches in Germany and Switzerland meet in Freiburg 

  The participants of the long marches through Germany and Switzerland for the freedom of Abdullah Öcalan and a solution of the Kurdish question met today in Freiburg and are walking the last stretch together.
• Bodies wrapped in blankets buried in mass graves in Adiyaman 

  Dead bodies removed from the rubble in Adiyaman hit by the massive earthquakes on Monday have been buried in mass graves for the last three days.
• HDP MP Bülbül in Adıyaman: Failure to reach trapped people on time led to a great tragedy 

  “Destruction is followed by psychological collapse, the state is abandoning the people,” said HDP MP Kemal Bülbül, who is in the earthquake-hit province of Adıyaman.
• MEDYA-DER joins search and rescue efforts in Pazarcik 

  Şeyhmus Karadağ, Co-Chair of the Association for Assistance and Solidarity with Families that Lost Their Relatives in the Cradle of Civilizations (MEDYA-DER), joined the search and rescue efforts in Pazarcik, saying: “We will continue to help our people."
• Ferhat Pala: We need more things for children in Pazarcik 

  Ferhat Pala, one of the HDP Van youth council members involved in helping the earthquake victims in Pazarcik, called on everyone to help.
• Prisoners in Kırıklar jail send winter clothes in solidarity with earthquake victims 

  The detainees in Kırıklar No. 2 F Type Prison sent their winter clothes in solidarity with the earthquake victims.
• KESK: The state was completely absent from the beginning of this catastrophe  

  KESK co-chair Mehmet Bozgeyik said that "the state was completely absent from the beginning of this catastrophe and collapsed."
• Autonomous Administration Education Board representatives hold meetings in Germany 

  Northern and Eastern Syria Autonomous Administration Education Board representatives continue their meetings in Germany.
• Number of victims continues to increase 

  AFAD announced that the number of victims of the earthquakes that struck last Monday increased to 18,342.