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• Taşçıer: We would voice the Kurds' demand for language and status everywhere 

  HDP deputy Imam Taşçıer, who was prevented from speaking Kurdish during the parliamentary budget negotiations, stated that they would voice the Kurds' demand for language and status on every platform.
• Defend Kurdistan and Women Defend Rojava activists hold rally in Dresden  

  Defend Kurdistan and Women Defend Rojava activists held a rally in Dresden and met with Deputy Merle Spellerberg to talk about the Turkish state's genocidal attacks, isolation and the ban on the PKK.
• British Parliament debates Turkish attacks on Kurds 

  Speaking at a session on Kurds under Turkish attack in the British Parliament, Labour MP Bambos Charalambous expressed their condemnation of the Turkish attacks and solidarity with the Kurdish people.
• Sit-in outside CPT demands immediate contact with Abdullah Öcalan 

  In front of the building of the Council of Europe's Committee against Torture (CPT) in Strasbourg, activists and exiled politicians demand immediate information about the condition of the Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Olaf Scholz calls for cessation of Turkish attacks in Syria and Iraq 

  "We are concerned about possible civilian casualties in the affected areas and call on Turkey to stop the attacks," said the German Chancellor's office on his behalf in view of the Turkish attacks on northern Syria and northern Iraq.
• Turkey uses European products to produce missiles 

  According to a report published by London-based Conflict Armament Research, electromagnetic brakes produced by a Dutch company to be used in ambulances in Turkey are used by Turkey in attacks in north-eastern Syria.
• Autonomous Administration delegation continues diplomatic contacts in Luxembourg 

  A delegation of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria maintained diplomatic contacts with Eve Krochten, Chair of the Luxembourg Parliament's Foreign Relations Committee, and parliamentarian Nataly Opervice.
• Öcalan's lawyers file application to visit Imrali 

  Lawyers of Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and İmralı Prison Directorate to meet with their client.
• Prisoners in Giresun Espiye L Type jail go on hunger strike against increasing rights violations 

  Political prisoners in Giresun Espiye L Type Prison went on hunger strike against the increasing rights violations.
• Your silence kills campaign publishes new report on chemical weapons 

  Your silence kills campaign published a new report on Turkish use of chemical weapons.
• Rahila Gupta: Everyone should defend the Rojava Revolution 

  Writer and journalist Gupta said: "It is necessary to boycott Turkey, to stop seeing it as a holiday destination, because Turkey wants to eliminate the Rojava Revolution and Rojava’s one is a women's revolution."
• Families of prisoners on hunger strike in Ereğli jail thrown out of campus 

  Families, who met with the prisoners on an indefinite and non-alternating hunger strike in Ereğli prison, were forcibly thrown out of the prison campus without being allowed to meet with the prosecutor.
• HDP Amed MP Tosun protests war and attacks by throwing her white scarf to the ground 

  HDP Amed MP, Remziye Tosun, threw her white scarf to the board at the General Assembly, saying "Let the isolation be lifted and the war end."
• General strike in East Kurdistan and Iran enters day three 

  The general strike launched in East Kurdistan and Iran has marked its third day with many university students taking part in it.
• IADL joins campaign to OPCW for independent investigation into Turkey chemical weapons allegations 

  The International Association of Democratic Lawyers supports the following petition campaign and encourages all lawyers and legal workers around the world to sign on.
• Saarbrücken DKTM members take over Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan Vigil  

  Saarbrücken DKTM members took over the Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan Vigil on its 546th week.
• Unione Popolare sends message of solidarity with PKK 

  The Unione Popolare national coordination in Rome sent a message of solidarity with the Kurdish freedom movement and the PKK.
• Kurdish youth organizations carry out action at Geneva University to condemn isolation in Imrali  

  Kurdish youth organizations distributed leaflets at Geneva University to draw attention to the absolute isolation imposed upon Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Bülbül: UN, NATO, CPT, ECHR have complicity in isolation 

  Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Antalya Deputy Kemal Bülbül said that the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) and other institutions approved and supported the torture in the İmralı prison.
• Activists in Barcelona protest the invitation of Turkish Consul to a Catalan public institution 

  A group of activists protested the invitation of a representative of the Turkish state to a Catalan public institution.
• Swiss Committee for Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan calls for an urgent meeting with the Kurdish leader 

  The Swiss Committee for Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan raised concern about the life and safety of Kurdish leader Öcalan and demanded an immediate meeting with him.
• KCK: Protests must not stop until the CPT makes a statement and lawyers meet with Öcalan 

  “No one should stand still while Leader Öcalan’s life is under uncertainty and danger. Everyone must take action with a spirit of strong mobilization,” says the KCK.
• Activists carry out civil action at SPD event in Stuttgart 

  Activists carried out a civil action at an SPD event in Stuttgart to condemn the Turkish use of chemical weapons and to protest against the federal government's silence on the attacks on Rojava and South Kurdistan.
• Basque movement Askapena expresses solidarity with Kurdish people 

  The Basque movement Askapena expressed solidarity with Kurdish people.
• Anonymous hacks Swedish government's website to protest extradition of Mahmut Tat 

  Anonymous tweeted that it hacked the Swedish government's website to protest the extradition of Kurdish asylum seeker Mahmut Tat to Turkey.