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• Children of Fire Initiative claims responsibility for 2,000 actions in 2021 

  The Children of Fire Initiative reported that they carried out nearly 2,000 actions in 1056 different places in 2021.
• HDP calls for international action for Tuğluk and sick prisoners in Turkey 

  HDP MPs Feleknas Uca and Hişyar Özsoy appeal to international institutions to stand up for the life of Aysel Tuğluk and all sick prisoners in Turkey before it is too late.
• HDBH militias target state forces in Amed 

  The Sakine Cansız Militias of the Peoples’ United Revolutionary Movement (HBDH) targeted Turkish state forces in Amed.
• Another refugee from Syria murdered in Turkey 

  The Human Rights Association (IHD) announced that a refugee from Syria has been killed in a racist attack in Istanbul.
• Summary to strip HDP deputy Güzel of her parliamentary immunity reaches Presidency 

  The summary of proceedings prepared to strip HDP Deputy Semra Güzel of her parliamentary immunity was sent to the Presidency.
• TJK-F and CDK-F: Our struggle will achieve justice for revolutionary women slaughtered in Paris 

  The Kurdish Women’s Movement in France (TJK-F) and Democratic Kurdish Council in France expressed their gratitude to all those struggling in order for the Paris Massacre to be enlightened, saying, “Our determined struggle will achieve justice.”
• David Sassoli, European parliament President, dies aged 65  

  David Sassoli, the president of the European parliament, has died at the age of 65, his spokesman has said.
• Police take two Kurdish politicians into custody in Van 

  Two Kurdish politicians were detained in the raids on houses in the Gürpınar district of Van in the morning.
• Prosecutor seeks to strip HDP MP Semra Güzel of her parliamentary immunity 

  HDP MP Semra Güzel risks being stripped of her parliamentary immunity. A preliminary investigation report by the public prosecutor's office is already with the Minister of Justice.
• Attacker on HDP office in Istanbul arrested 

  Almost two weeks after the armed attack on the HDP district association in Bahçelievler, Istanbul, the perpetrator Muhammed Eren Sütçü has been remanded in custody after public reaction.
• Turkey: At least 2,170 workers died at work in 2021 

  The Workers Health and Safety Assembly (ISIG) reported that at least 2,170 workers died in occupational accidents in 2021.
• HDP's Gökova: Where there is oppression, there is resistance 

  Hüseyin Gökova stated that the attacks against the HDP, as well as the Ankara Train Station, Paris, Silopi and many other massacres, cannot be considered separately from the ‘reason of state’.
• Peace in Kurdistan Campaign: We demand justice for Sakine, Fidan and Leyla  

  Peace in Kurdistan Campaign: We demand justice for Sakine, Fidan and Leyla.
• Political prisoner in Iran sends solidarity message to prisoners in Turkey 

  Ebdulmutalib Ehmediyan, a political prisoner sentenced by the Iranian state to 30 years, called on the public and international human rights institutions not to remain silent about the injustices perpetrated in Turkey's prisons.
• Prosecutor releases two people detained after racist attack on Kurdish students 

  Two people, who were detained after a mob of 30 attacked three Kurdish students in front of Ankara University Faculty of Law on Sunday evening, were released by the prosecutor's office.
• Fascist mob attacks three Kurdish students at Law University in Ankara 

  A right-wing extremist mob of around 30 people attacked three Kurdish students with knives and machetes at the law faculty of Ankara University.
• Pervin Buldan: Now is HDP time! 

  HDP co-chair, Pervin Buldan, said in a speech at the rally in Gezbe, in the province of Kocaeli that the HDP is a great chance in this country and added: "Now is HDP time".
• Sakine, Fidan and Leyla commemorated in Paris where they were murdered 

  Nine years after the murder of Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez, friends gathered in front of the crime scene and laid flowers.
• PCF: France must act decisively against the barbarity in Turkish prisons 

  The French Communist Party (PCF) expressed its full solidarity with the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) and called for the immediate release of MP Aysel Tuğluk and all political prisoners.
• PKK: The Kurdish people will not let go of those involved in the Paris massacre 

  On the anniversary of the triple murder of the revolutionaries Sara, Rojbîn and Ronahî in Paris on 9 January 2013, the PKK said: "The Kurdish people will not let go of those who perpetrated the massacre and those who ordered it."
• Police take Peace Mother Işçi and MEBYA-DER activist Inedi into custody in Cizre 

  Member of the Peace Mothers Council Nebahat Işçi and MEBYA-DER member Hüseyin Inedi were taken into custody during a political police operation carried out in Cizre.
• Thousands at Paris rally: “We are a part of this struggle for justice” 

  “End this disgrace and secure justice” said thousands who joined a rally in Paris today against the French state blockade of the investigation into the murders of Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez.
• Paris rally kicks off: "End this disgrace!" 

  The rally against the French state blockade of the investigation into the murders of Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez has begun in Paris.
• HDP Ağrı MP Taşdemir: The government is sending a message to the outside with its policy on prisons 

  HDP Ağrı MP, Dilan Diyet Taşdemir, said that the government is sending a message to the outside with tortures and massacres in prisons.
• Boğaziçi University students released from pre-trial detention 

  Students Enis Berke Gök and Caner Perit Özen, charged with protesting against the appointed rector of Istanbul's Boğaziçi University, are released from pre-trial detention.