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• Activists protest attacks on Shengal in Berlin 

  Activists called on European governments to stop turning a blind eye to ongoing attacks on Yazidis and emphasized that the Kurds have the right to self-determination against this war and violence.
• Sinn Féin expresses concern over Turkish assault on Kurds in Iraq 

  Sinn Féin parliamentarian John Brady said that the Turkish attack on Iraq represents a further disregarding of the territorial integrity of a neighbouring state.
• Father and son arrested on terror charges in Mersin 

  Two Kurds have been arrested in the southern Turkish province of Mersin on terror charges. Father and son had already been in "preventive police custody for ten days as a measure to prevent violence" on May 1.
• DKP/Unity: We will expand the united revolutionary movement 

  The Revolutionary Communards Party/Unity commemorated commander Ulaş Bayraktaroğlu who was martyred during the liberation of Raqqa and vowed that “we will expand the united revolution movement.”
• Kurdish artists: Kurdish forces should not support Turkish occupation 

  Kurdish artists reacted to the KDP and said that the Kurdish forces should not support the invasion attacks of the Turkish state.
• FED-DEM holds 4th ordinary congress in Hannover 

  FED-DEM, the umbrella organization of the Kurds living in Northern Germany, held its 4th ordinary congress in Hannover.
• KONGRA-GEL co-chair Kartal: Kurds should support the guerrillas 

  Speaking at the CDK-S congress, KONGRA-GEL co-chair Remzi Kartal stated that all Kurds should support the resisting guerrillas.
• Turkey spent 135 million dollars in a year for military activities abroad 

  According to the 2021 Activity Report of the Ministry of Defense, Turkey spent 70 billion Turkish lira (1 US dollar = 14.93 lira) on "National Defense and Security", and 200 million on the walls built on the borders with Iran and Syria.
• "Marlene Förster and Matej Kavčič were our guests" 

  Hisên Azad, on behalf of the Şengal Autonomous Council, demands the immediate release of journalists Marlene Förster and Matej Kavčič, imprisoned in Iraq: "They are independent media professionals and were guests of the Yazidi community."
• Memorial for guerrilla Gaffari Yorulmaz in Adiyaman 

  Guerrilla Gaffari Yorulmaz (Bager Adar), who fell as a martyr two years ago, was commemorated in Adiyaman.
• Activists in Frankfurt protest Turkish war of aggression in South Kurdistan 

  A demonstration was held in Frankfurt against the Turkish war of aggression in South Kurdistan. The Iraqi aggression against the Yazidi area of ​​Shengal was also protested.
• The struggle for self-determination: perspectives from Kenya 

  The struggle for self-determination and grassroots liberation from neocolonial NGO-ism: perspectives from Kenya.
• Turkish-linked mercenaries in occupied Serêkaniyê wound 9-year-old in Ceylanpınar 

  Mercenaries affiliated with the Turkish state in occupied Serêkaniyê hit a 9-year-old, Yusuf Y. in the head, in Ceylanpınar, Urfa.
• Letter to the UN Representative in Iraq: People of Shengal will resist to death 

  KCDK-E Bashur wrote to UN Iraq Representative Jeanine Hennis-Plasschaert about the attacks on Shengal and called for the end of the war.
• Signatures collected for delisting the PKK in Saarbrucken 

  In Saarbrucken, activists collected signatures for the removal of the PKK from the list of terrorist organizations and informed interested people about the current situation in Kurdistan.
• Dirk Campbell: Kurds pose no threat to Turkey 

  Anna Campbell's father and friend of Kurds, Dirk Campbell, said that Kurds pose no threat to Turkey and have as much right to exist as anyone.
• Swiss "Freedom for Öcalan" committee condemns Turkish-Iraqi attack on South Kurdistan 

  The Swiss "Freedom for Öcalan" committee issued a statement to condemn the Turkish-Iraqi attack on South Kurdistan.
• Activists in Athens protest Turkish state's invasion attacks on Medya Defense Areas 

  The Turkish state's invasion attacks on Medya Defense Areas in partnership with the KDP were protested with a march in Athens.
• European Left condemns Iraqi attacks on Şengal and Turkish attacks in Iraq 

  “The world community must not turn a blind eye when Yazidis, in their long history of persecution and expulsion, once again fall victim to arbitrary power politics!”
• HBDH strikes the Turkish police in Amed 

  The People's United Revolutionary Movement (HBDH) carried out actions against a police department and a police station in Amed (Diyarbakir) province in northern Kurdistan.
• Protest in front of the OPCW 

  The Kurdish organizations in Europe have decided to hold a permanent protest in front of the UN Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons due to the chemical weapons use in Kurdistan.
• HDP calls on international community to speak out against attacks on the party 

  Feleknas Uca & Hişyar Özsoy, HDP’s co-spokespersons for Foreign Affairs issued a statement about the attacks on the party’s headquarters in Ankara on Thursday.
• 50 years ago the execution of revolutionaries Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Huseyin Inan 

  50 years ago, on 6 May 1972, Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Huseyin Inan were hanged in Ankara.
• Prominent voices in the UK condemn Turkey’s latest War Crimes in Iraq  

  Prominent voices in the UK condemn Turkey’s latest War Crimes in Iraq.
• Communist Party of France sends message of solidarity to HDP deputy Ayşe Acar Başaran  

  The Communist Party of France sent a message of solidarity to HDP MP Ayşe Acar Başaran and all HDP supporters threatened by Turkish police.