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• Kurds in Milan met with Antigone association 

  Verdolin remarked that providing a system that allows a transparent monitoring of the situation in prisons is especially important for countries like Turkey and added: “We will deal with this issue and we will do our best.”
• Families of hunger strikers met Die Linke MPs in Parliament 

  The families talked about the worsening health situation of the hunger strikers and said it was urgent to take action.
• HDP’s Temelli: Turkey is in a deep crisis  

  Turkey’s politics is based on the one-man regime. The way to overcome this crisis is local democracy. It is the participation of the public in the administration itself. And Kurds will be leading this political struggle."
• Day 87 in Strasbourg: Let's step up the resistance 

  Hunger striker Ramazan Imir pointed out that they are ready to pay any price to succeed.
• Hunger strike resistance in Vienna reached day 40 

  The two hunger strikers sent their greetings from Vienna to all the hunger strikers, including DTK co-chair and HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven and urged all Kurds and their friends to be more active and give voice to the resistance.
• MEP visits Kurdish hunger strikers: Your struggle is our struggle 

  One of the 14 Kurdish hunger strikers in Strasbourg, Gülistan Ike said that they want the support of the European peoples, especially women and said they are sure of their success as this struggle is for future generations.
• Harsh criticism for Ankara and Brussels from EP 

  The draft resolution proposing the suspension of Turkey’s accession negotiations with the EU was discussed in the EP in yesterday’s general assembly, and will be voted on today. The hunger strikes were discussed in the EP session.
• Vengeance Teams: Our units downed the helicopter in Istanbul 

  The Martyr Ciyager and Martyr Zeryan Vengeance Teams assumed responsibility for the downing of the helicopter in Istanbul’s Cekmekoy on February 11.  The Vengeance Teams stressed that the action was done against the isolation imposed upon Ocalan.
• Protesting German-Turkish weapons alliance considered crime 

  Germany is racing Turkey in punishments and bans. Two anti-war activists protesting Rheinmetall for taking on the manufacture of panzer tanks for the Erdogan regime have been fined 15.000 Euros each. The activists are refusing to pay the the fine.
• ECHR convicts Turkey in Ozgur Gundem case 

  ECHR issued a fine to Turkey in the case about the shut down Ulkede Ozgur Gundem newspaper.
• Turkish occupation of Afrin discussed at UN Human Rights session 

  American international conflict analyst Dr. Thoreau Redcrow underlined that a policy of ethnic cleansing is being carried out in the Afrin region since its occupation by the Turkish state.
• Strasbourg resistance: Day 87 

  Hunger striker Sarikaya indicated the necessity of increasing the resistance with different actions all over Europe and said that the resistance can destroy the walls of Imrali.
• The JEP and the rights of women, sit-in in Bogota 

  Progressive organisations have organised a sit-in in the Plazoleta de San Francisco, in Bogota, this Wednesday, at 5 pm, to denounce the breaches by the Colombian government and defend the peace process.
• 4 HDP hunger strikers imprisoned in Amed 

  4 HDP members who started hunger strike against the isolation of Öcalan in Amed and were later detained in a police raid, have been sent to prison.
• Buldan: We will take back what was taken from us on 31 March 

  "Isolation is a crime against humanity and must be lifted. Like every human being in prisons, like every prisoner, Mr. Öcalan must be granted his rights. This right of visit is denied and thus Turkey’s own law is not complied with.”
• Action by Kurdish youth against isolation in NRW Parliament 

  The protest aims to protest against the isolation imposed on Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan and call attention to the hunger strike campaign demanding an end to the isolation executed by the Turkish state.
• Delegation from South Kurdistan visits Leyla Guven in Amed 

  A delegation from South Kurdistan including politicians and academics visited Leyla Guven on her 125th day of the hunger strike.
• Plaid Cymru Chair visits Imam Sis 

  Plaid Cymru Chairperson Adam Price visited Imam Sis and the hunger strike. Price said, “The isolation of Kurdish Leader Ocalan is unacceptable.”
• Former HDP Edremit District Co-chair arrested 

  Former HDP District Co-chair Hurriyet Kizil was arrested after the prison sentence she received for protesting the Suruc massacre was finalized.
• Turkey’s antidemocratic system lands in Sweden Parliament 

  “A number of HDP members and deputies including former co-chairs Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yüksekdağ are in prison. The European Court of Human Rights ruled the release of Selahattin Demirtas, yet he is still in prison.”
• Isolation of Ocalan protested in Welsh Assembly and BBC 

  Kurdish activist Imam Sis continues his indefinite non-alternating hunger strike on day 84 as protests were held in front of the Welsh Assembly and the BBC building with the same demands.
• DKP’s Erol Dundar on indefinite hunger strike 

  Erol Dundar, who is under arrest in the DKP/Birlik case, joined the indefinite nonalternating hunger strikes on March 1. 
• 142 prisoners on non-alternating hunger strikes in Mardin 

  The number of prisoners on indefinite non-alternating hunger strikes in the Mardin Type E Closed Prison demanding an end to the isolation imposed upon Ocalan has risen to 142.
• Switzerland group takes over the hunger strike in Strasbourg 

  The alternating hunger strike in Strasbourg continues with new groups.
• Activists from four parts of Kurdistan on hunger strike 

  Solidarity with Kurdish hunger strike campaign is growing.