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• Police say 4 members of a Muslim family killed in "premeditated" vehicle attack in Canada 

  Four members of a Muslim family were killed in a "premeditated" vehicle attack on Sunday, Canadian police said today
• Children of Fire set fire to three factories and two vehicles 

  You will never get away with your crimes, said the Children of Fire Initiative, addressing to “AKP-MHP gangs pursuing vicious policies under the cover of Kurdish enmity”.
• Court in Amed sends five people to prison, releases 13 under judicial control  

  Five of the 18 people detained in a recent political genocide operation in Amed were remanded in custody while 13 other were released under judicial control.
• German government silent on chemical weapons use by Turkish army 

  While reports of chemical weapons use by the Turkish army are piling up, the German government, as an ally of Turkish fascism, remains silent on the war crimes.
• Muslim: Peker's allegations will ruin the 2014 coalition in Turkey 

  PYD co-presidency council member Salih Muslim said that Turkish mob leader Sedat Peker's allegations would disintegrate the coalition which was formed in 2014 to carry out the so-called ‘Collapse Plan’ against Kurdish opposition.
• New indictment to ban the HDP submitted to Constitutional Court 

  The Chief Public Prosecutor at the Turkish Court of Cassation has submitted a new indictment against the HDP to the Constitutional Court. At the end of March, a first version of the indictment had been found fault with and returned.
• Kurdish lawyer sentenced to 11.5 years in prison 

  Kurdish lawyer Sevda Çelik Özbingöl has been sentenced to over eleven years in prison in Urfa. The lawyer is a thorn in the side of the judiciary because she represents the Şenyaşar family and survivors of the victims of the ISIS attack in Suruç.
• Young activists take over the vigil for Öcalan’s freedom in Strasbourg 

  Young Kurdish activists from Switzerland have taken over the Freedom Vigil in Strasbourg. The young activists called for unity against the isolation, occupation and genocide attacks.
• Commission of lawyers calls for participation in hearing of Ankara massacre 

  The ‘October 10 Ankara Massacre Case Lawyers’ Commission’ called for participation in the hearing to be held on June 9 in Ankara.
• Lawyers file another application to visit Öcalan 

  Abdullah Öcalan's lawyers have applied once again to visit their client on Imrali after his call for a meeting with his lawyers within a legal framework.
• YPS Martyr Kawa Çekdar Retaliation Team targets Nusaybin AKP provincial chair 

  YPS Martyr Kawa Çekdar Retaliation Team said they carried out a bombing action targeting the house of AKP district chairman in Mardin's Nusaybin district.
• KON-MED celebrates its second congress in Cologne 

  The Kurdish umbrella organization KON-MED held its second congress. The new co-chairs are the exiled politicians Zübeyde Zümrüt and Engin Sever.
• Iranian soldiers injure two kolbars, one a child 

  Iranian soldiers injured 2 kolbars, 1 of them a child.
• Activists in Oldenburg condemn Turkish attacks on Maxmur and South Kurdistan 

  A rally was held in Oldenburg to condemn the Turkish state's fascist attacks on South Kurdistan and Maxmur.
• Activists in Milan protest the Turkish attacks on South Kurdistan 

  Kurds and their friends gathered in front of the Facebook building in Milan, to protest the Turkish state's attacks on Medya Defense Areas.
• PCF delegation travels to Hewler 

  A delegation of the French Communist Party will travel to Hewlêr (Erbil) next week to express solidarity with the KNK amid Turkey's escalating military aggression in South Kurdistan (Bashur).
• KCDK-E: Stop the Turkish state under dictator Erdogan! 

  After the Turkish drone attack on Maxmur Camp, the Kurdish umbrella organization in Europe, KCDK-E appeals to the Kurdish people and all people in solidarity not to watch the crimes of the Erdogan dictatorship in silence.
• Demonstration in Rome condemns Turkish attacks on South Kurdistan 

  Kurdish and Italian activists gathered in Rome to protest the isolation imposed on Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan and the invasion operations carried out by Turkey against South Kurdistan.
• Activists in Montpellier protest Turkish attacks on Maxmur Camp and Metina 

  The invasion attacks carried out by the Turkish state both against the Metina and Maxmur camp in South Kurdistan were protested in Montpellier.
• Kurdish youth in Drancy and Marseille protest the Turkish state and the KDP  

  Kurdish youth protested the Turkish state and the KDP with demonstrations in Drancy, Paris,and in Marseille.
• Activists in Basel protest the Turkish attacks against Maxmur 

  Activists in Basel protested the Turkish attacks against Maxmur Refugee Camp.
• US ambassador to the UN calls on Turkey to "respect rights of refugees" after attack on Maxmur 

  The US ambassador to the UN, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, issued a short declaration on Twitter after the Turkish drone attack on Maxmur Camp in South Kurdistan and called on everyone "to respect the rights of the refugees".
• Ilhan: Iraqi government and the UN responsible for the Turkish attack on Maxmur 

  Leyla Arzu Ilhan, member of the Diplomacy Committee of the Ishtar Assembly, said: “The responsibility for the attack on Maxmur lies with the UN and the Iraqi government."
• The KNK calls for dialogue about the situation in the region of Metina 

  The KNK called for sensitivity and dialogue about the situation in the region of Metina, in the Medya Defense Area.
• Öker: No one should assume a bluff 

  Turgut Öker, honorary chairman of the Alevi Federation of Europe, assumes that Sedat Peker's statement about a planned attack on an Alevi community center cannot be dismissed out of hand.