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• Ata on Kobanê Trial: Autonomous Kurdistan is indispensable 

  Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) former MP and Free Women’s Movement (TJA) activist Ayla Akat said that an autonomous democratic Kurdistan is indispensable for a democratic Turkey.
• House raids and detentions in Amed 

  The Turkish regime’s political extermination campaign against the Kurdish people and their elected representatives continues unabated. In Amed, the week ends with a new wave of arrests, including HDP members.
• Russia captures Europe's largest nuclear power station in Ukraine 

  Russian forces on Friday captured Zaporizhzhia in Ukraine, Europe's biggest nuclear power station.
• Families submit another application to visit Imrali 

  The family and legal guardian of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan renewed the application to Turkish authorities to pay a visit to İmralı prison where Öcalan is held under aggravated isolation.
• ‘The struggle of the PKK cannot be criminalized’ 

  BastA Party Secretary General Franziska Stier said that Europe's insistence on keeping the PKK on its "terror list" proceeds from economic interests and stressed that the struggle for democracy cannot be criminalized.
• Police detain 5 people in Cizre, including 75-year-old  

  Police detained 5 people in Cizre, including 75-year-old Hasan Malgaz.
• Bachelet: All of humanity at risk from nuclear threat over Ukraine 

  Bachelet said her office had recorded 227 civilian deaths, including at least 15 children, but stressed that the real numbers were likely far higher.
• Emine Şenyaşar awarded the 'Peace, Friendship and Democracy' prize 

  The Amed Medical Chamber awarded the "Peace, Friendship and Democracy" prize to Emine Şenyaşar, whose husband and two sons were murdered by an AKP group accompanying a deputy of the party.
• Lavrov says West is considering 'nuclear war' 

  Russia and Ukraine delegations will meet for a second round of negotiations on the Belarusian border on Thursday.
• Lawyers of Abdullah Öcalan apply for a visit to Imrali 

  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 two and a half years ago.
• Economic crisis deepens in Turkey, confirms new inflation data  

  The Turkish Statistical Institute announced the Consumer Price Index in Turkey for February 2022: consumer inflation rose to 54.44 percent.
• Stephen Smellie: Öcalan's freedom is crucial for peace in the region 

  Stephen Smellie, Deputy Convenor of UNISON Scotland, said that "Öcalan's freedom is crucial for peace in the region."
• Police detain HDP executives in Cizre 

  Two HDP executives were detained in house raids targeting the party in the Cizre (province of Şırnak).
• Vigil in front of the UN headquarters continues 

  Every Wednesday for over a year, activists have been protesting in front of the UN headquarters in Geneva demanding the release of Abdullah Öcalan and a democratic solution to the Kurdish question.
• Group from Pforzheim takes over the Freedom Vigil in Strasbourg 

  Kurds from Pforzheim, Germany took over the Freedom Vigil in Strasbourg, which is still going strong in its ninth year.
• Italian Parliament’s Human Rights Committee debates Kurdish issue, isolation and HDP 

  The Kurdish issue is the root of the problems in Turkey, Europe Representative of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Devriş Çimen said in a meeting organized by the Standing Committee on Human Rights of the Italian Parliament.
• HDP: The dark spirit of the '90s still haunts contemporary politics in Turkey 

  The Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) condemned the March 2 Coup that stripped Kurdish deputies of parliamentarian immunity in 1994, stressing that “contemporary putschists will fail as well, just like the actors of the 1994 coup.”
• AKP trustee is favouring the decline of Erciş 

  Erciş, the largest province of Van in terms of population, was turned into a big village by the usurpation of trustees. The center and neighbourhoods are in ruins; streets and avenues turned into mud.
• Turkish National Assembly strips HDP deputy Semra Güzel of her parliamentary immunity 

  The Turkish National Assembly has stripped HDP deputy Semra Güzel of her parliamentary immunity. After the vote, the HDP parliamentary group left the meeting room with loud protests.
• HDP parliamentary group demonstrates in solidarity with Semra Güzel 

  The HDP MP Semra Güzel is to be stripped of her parliamentary immunity after a smear campaign orchestrated by the media. In the run-up to the parliamentary session, the HDP parliamentary group demonstrated united solidarity.
• Conference in Brussels exposes Turkish assassination team in Belgium and connections to Ankara 

  Press conference in Brussels about the assassination attempt on KONGRA GEL Co-chair Remzi Kartal and KCK Executive Council member Zübeyir Aydar.
• Police attack Şenyaşar family in front of the courthouse in Urfa 

  Members of the Şenyaşar family survivors protesting for justice in front of the courthouse in Urfa have been attacked by police.
• Seven parties in Turkey against the war in Ukraine: "We refuse the unjust war!" 

  A newly formed coordination of left parties and organisations in Turkey opposes the war in Ukraine and accuses Russia and NATO of plunging the world into war for their economic interests.
• Lawyers of Abdullah Öcalan once again apply for a visit to Imrali 

  Lawyers of Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan once again applied to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office and İmralı Prison Directorate, requesting a visit to their client.
• A prisoner in Diyarbakır Women's jail told her lawyer has come meets intelligence officers 

  Hanım Iş, a prisoner in Diyarbakır Women's Prison, was told that her lawyer had come and faced an unpleasant interview with people who were stated to be intelligence officers.