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• Activists in Limassol and Larnaca collect 2,852 signatures demanding the delisting of the PKK 

  Activists in Limassol and Larnaca collected 2,852 signatures in one day demanding the delisting of the PKK.
• KON-MED announces demonstrations throughout Germany to protest Turkey's new invasion attacks 

  After several days of air and ground attacks, the Turkish army has launched a new invasion of South Kurdistan. The umbrella organization KON-MED announces demonstrations throughout Germany.
• Attack on HDP office in Adana 

  An HDP office has been attacked in Turkey for the second time, this time in Adana. Unknown persons tore down the signage on the building and set fire to flags of the party.
• Protests in Frankfurt and Zurich against Turkish war in Kurdistan 

  Demonstrations against the Turkish occupation attacks on Kurdistan and the collaboration of the Barzanî clan have taken place in Frankfurt and Zurich.
• Activists in Rome protest Turkish attacks against Kurdistan 

  Activists in Rome protested the Turkish state's invasion attacks on Kurdistan lands and the KDP's partnership in the occupation.
• KCDK-E calls on everyone to be a voice for political prisoners  

  The KCDK-E called on everyone to be a voice for the political prisoners and demanded action to be taken for an effective fight against the massacres of the Turkish state.
• Over 90 people have their assets frozen as part of the “Kobanê investigation” 

  The assets of more than 90 people have been frozen in connection with the so-called “Kobanê investigation”. The court alleges their involvement in the financial structure behind the Kobanê protests of 2014.
• HDP delegation visits Athens 

  A delegation of the HDP has visited Athens for political talks. The program included participation in the congress of the SYRIZA party.
• 'Removing the PKK ban is our main agenda' 

  The representatives of the Kurdish movements in Europe said that they would make the campaign to delist the PKK their most basic agenda.
• John Hunt: OPCW should take immediate action in the Kurdish region 

  John Hunt said that the OPCW should take immediate action in the Kurdish region.
• TUHAY-DER Van co-chair Edibe Babur says government takes revenge on prisoners 

  TUHAY-DER Van co-chair Edibe Babur said that the wave of attacks against the prisoners was directed against the will of the people that emerged on 8 March and on Newroz, 21 March and added that the Turkish state is the sole responsible for the deaths.
• Number of detainees in Amed rises to 66  

  The number of detentions in Amed has risen to 66. A manhunt is underway for 105 people under the well-known terror label.
• Detention period extended for 48 people in custody in “Kobanê Investigation” 

  A court in Ankara has extended the detention of 48 people on remand for four days as part of the "Kobanê Investigation".
• Police take at least 57 people into custody in Amed 

  Many people, including journalists, were detained in house raids carried out by Turkish police in Amed this morning.
• Ministry of Interior rejects to disclose Sheikh Said's burial site 

  The Turkish Ministry of Interior has rejected an application for the disclosure of the burial sites of Sheikh Said and his 47 companions.
• "It is not the HDP that will go down, but the regime" 

  On the occasion of the wave of repression in Turkey, the HDP said, "The government has lost its strongholds. Its current attacks are taking place on a contrived basis and mean its downfall."
• DTK denounces isolation and intensified torture 

  The Democratic Society Congress (DTK) Health Assembly spoke out in response to the isolation of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan and the intensified torture executed in prisons.
• Lawyers submit another application to visit Abdullah Öcalan 

  Abdullah Öcalan's legal team has applied for a visit permit to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and the management of Imrali Island Prison. The last client meeting took place more than two years ago.
• HDP: The political operation will not end democratic opposition but the government! 

  The HDP drew attention to the genocidal political practices of the AKP-MHP government and said that "the government has lost all its strongholds and these latest attacks will actually end the government itself."
• Unions announce celebration of International Workers' Day in Istanbul 

  Unions announced that they will celebrate 1 May, International Workers' Day in Istanbul in Maltepe and called for participation.
• National Education Union demands freedom for Abdullah Öcalan at its Congress 

  The National Education Union, one of Britain's largest and most prestigious unions, declared its support for the Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan Campaign and closed its congress this year with a call for freedom for Abdullah Öcalan.
• At least 347 workplace homicides recorded in Turkey in three months 

  Six child workers and 18 refugee workers were killed in the first quarter of the year. Twenty-five of the killed workers were women and 322 were men.
• HDP's Uca: Rojava and Shengal alliance is way greater than those walls 

  Feleknas Uca of the HDP remarked that the walls are being built to break the alliance between Shengal and North and East Syria, and that "the might of Rojava and Shengal is way greater than those walls."
• Vigil in support of HDP in Cizre enters second day 

  The vigil initiated by the HDP Cizre Provincial organization against the raid on their party continued on its second day.
• Court sends three people to prison in Van 

  Three of the 24 people taken into custody in house raids carried out by police in Van on 6-7 April were sent to prison.