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• Incentives for bosses, less rights for workers 

  Textile workers in Turkey and North Kurdistan are exposed to severe exploitation and health risks. They receive wages well below the poverty line.
• Global Days for Öcalan from 1 to 10 October 

  New Global Days for Öcalan to be held from 1 to 10 October.
• Fatma Yavuz: It seems that every institution in Turkey works contrary to its mission 

  Author Fatma Yavuz said: "Hospitals produce diseases, courthouses produce oppression, and places of worship produce sin and polytheism."
• Kurdish activist Kenan Ayaz sentenced to 4 years and 3 months in prison in Germany 

  The final hearing of Kurdish activist Kenan Ayaz was held at the Hamburg State Court. Ayaz was sentenced to 4 years and 3 months in prison. Kurds protested the verdict in front of the court.
• Young people in North Rhine-Westphalia call for participation in Long March for Öcalan 

  Kurdish and internationalist young people will be holding a Long March in Germany between 15 and 20 September under the slogan 'Freedom for Leader Öcalan, a political solution to the Kurdish question'.
• Man from Duhok killed in racist attack in Istanbul 

  Three men from Duhok were attacked in Istanbul because they spoke Kurdish.
• International Peace Conference in Berlin: We weave the future together 

  The ‘European Forum for Freedom and Peace’, founded by people from Turkey and Kurdistan living in exile, is organising an international peace conference in Berlin this weekend.
• Scottish MPs: Negotiation with Abdullah Öcalan will lead to peace 

  Scottish National Party (SNP) MPs, youth organisation and members stated that dialogue and negotiation with Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan will lead to peace.
• Young people march to UN demaning freedom for Öcalan 

  The Kurdish youth movement in Switzerland demanded the release of Abdullah Öcalan from Turkish solitary confinement and a political solution to the Kurdish question with a long march to the UN headquarters in Geneva.
• Long March for the Freedom of Abdullah Öcalan starts in Switzerland 

  The long march organised by TCŞ and TEKOJİN as part of the ‘Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan and a political solution to the Kurdish question’ has started in Lausanne.
• GÖÇİZDER’s assets frozen by Ministry of Interior and Treasury 

  According to the decision of the Minister of the Interior and the Minister of Treasury and Finance, GÖÇİZDER’s assets have been frozen.
• KCDK-E calls for participation in World Peace Day activities 

  The European association KCDK-E has announced that it will be taking part in activities for World Peace Day on 1 September.
• Activists in Athens protest killing of journalists Gulistan Tara and Hêro Bahadîn 

  The Turkish state’s killing of Gulistan Tara and Hêro Bahadîn was protested in Athens.
• Armed attack on the house of Kurdish agricultural workers in Samsun 

  An armed attack was carried out against the house of agricultural workers from Urfa who went to Samsun to work.
• Long March in Switzerland starts tomorrow 

  The Long March in Switzerland will start tomorrow at 10.00 at the Palace de la gare 1296 Coppet. Bus departure points and times have also been finalised.
• Cologne Court: Travel ban against Peace Delegation to Kurdistan unlawful 

  In its judgement on the complaints of two plaintiffs from Hamburg, the Cologne Administrative Court ruled that the travel ban imposed by the Federal Police on participants in a Peace Delegation to Kurdistan was unlawful.
• Nobel Laureate Sauvage: It is time to free Abdullah Öcalan 

  French chemist Jean-Pierre Sauvage, one of the 69 Nobel laureates who sent a letter to international organisations to draw attention to the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan, said, “It is time to free Öcalan.”
• Iraqi army shoots down a Turkish drone in Kirkuk 

  An unmanned aerial vehicle of the invading Turkish state was shot down in Kirkuk on Thursday.
• Peace and democracy conference in Berlin 

  The European Forum for Freedom and Peace will organize a peace and democracy conference.
• 'Entering a new intellectual era', new brochure from the Internationalist Community of Rojava 

  'Entering a new intellectual era', new brochure from the Internationalist Community of Rojava
• Activists call for participation in the Lausanne-Geneva march 

  Members of the Kurdish youth movements TCŞ and TekoJIN called on young people to join the long march from Lausanne to Geneva on 31 August.
• Mike Arnott: Öcalan's freedom is the key for a peaceful solution to the Kurdish question 

  Mike Arnott, chair of the Dundee Trade Union Confederation of Scotland, said that "Abdullah Öcalan's freedom is a key to a peaceful solution."
• Saleh Mamon, a member of the Freedom for Öcalan campaign passes away 

  Saleh Mamon, an active member of the Freedom for Öcalan campaign, a University of London academic and a friend of the Kurds of Kenyan origin, has passed away.
• Call for participation in the ‘Long March’ for Öcalan in Germany 

  The preparatory committee for the long march for the freedom of Abdullah Öcalan and a solution to the Kurdistan question calls for participation in the multi-day demonstration from Bielefeld to Duisburg from 15 to 20 September.
• AANES on Solingen attack: ISIS poses a serious threat to the security of the region and the world 

  In statement about the ISIS attack in Germany, the Autonomous Administration stressed that the source of the support given to ISIS gangs must be dried up.