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• Gendarmerie detains a villager’s sheep in Ceylanpınar 

  TIGEM officers often seize the animals of the villagers on the pretext that they graze them on the TIGEM land. The animals are taken away and are not given food or water. Villagers who seek to get their animals back are asked for money.
• Kurdish Friendship Group issues a call for Shengal 

  The Kurdish Friendship Group in the European Parliament demanded the acknowledgment of the existing Yazidi governance structures by the Iraqi government, stating that they are ready to play their part in helping to find a peaceful resolution to tensions.
• Kurdish activists in Geneva call on the UN to act for Shengal 

  Kurdish activists continued a sit-in protest in front of the United Nations Office in Geneva, Switzerland. Today, they called upon the UN to ensure that the future of Shengal is left to the hands of its own people.
• HDP MP Koç: The government is violating the constitution 

  HDP Ağrı MP Abdullah Koç said that the constitution was violated with the isolation of Öcalan and urged the AKP / MHP government to abide by the constitution and laws.
• Demo for Shengal in front of Iraqi consulate in Berlin 

  Yazidi organizations have protested in front of the Iraqi consulate in Berlin demanding recognition of an autonomous status for Shengal and warning of an escalation in the region.
• Protest against the isolation of Öcalan in Amed 

  Political parties and civil society organizations in Amed protested the Imrali isolation and saluted the prison resistance in Turkey’s prisons.
• HDP MP Gergerlioğlu: The resistance continues 

  "I am not a Kurd. I lost my mandate because I worked for a solution to the Kurdish question," said ousted HDP deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu in Ankara. Tomorrow he is to begin serving a two-and-a-half-year prison sentence.
• Constitutional Court returns HDP indictment by unanimous vote 

  Turkish Constitutional Court decided to return the indictment in its first examination of the closure case against the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) at its agenda meeting.
• $6.4 billion humanitarian aid pledged for Syrian refugees 

  The Syria Conference in Brussels decided to grant $6.4 billion humanitarian aid to Syrian refugees, which remains far below the expectation of the UN.
• 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.
• Sinn Féin condemns oppression of Kurdish political representatives in Turkey 

  Sinn Féin spokesperson on Foreign Affairs and Defence, John Brady TD, condemned the ongoing efforts of the Erdogan regime in Turkey to ban the HDP.
• French lawyers notify ICC against Macron for not repatriating ISIS families held in Rojava 

  French lawyers and academics filed a dossier on Tuesday with the International Criminal Court to attack President Macron's policy on French nationals held in Syria.
• Luxembourg Left Party sends solidarity message to HDP 

  The Left Party (Déi Lénk), one of the opposition parties of Luxembourg, sent a message of solidarity to the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), which the AKP-MHP government wants to ban.
• Kurdish civil society organisations urge international community to act for Shengal 

  29 Kurdistan parties and institutions in Europe sent a letter to the foreign ministers of the US, France, Germany, Iraq and Britain and the UN Iraq representative to raise concern over Shengal.
• German novelist urges Merkel to ensure the freedom of Abdullah Öcalan 

  Heinz Jürgen Schneider, one of Germany's well-known crime novelists, asked the Federal German Government to take action for the freedom of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• HDP rejects German government’s remarks over closure case 

  In a letter to the German Foreign Ministry, the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) co-chairs said: "We reject the rhetoric that criminalizes the HDP."
• HDP youth member forced into a car and pressured to become an informer 

  HDP youth member Çekdar Aksucu was put in a police vehicle yesterday and pressure has been put on him to become an informer.
• HDP co-chairs meet with PACE president 

  HDP co-chairs Pervin Buldan and Mithat Sancar met with PACE President Rik Daems in the Turkish Parliament.
• Constitutional Court report on indictment demanding closure of the HDP completed 

  The Constitutional Court report on the indictment demanding the closure of the HDP has been completed.
• Activists pay tribute to Mahir Çayan and Kılızdere revolutionaries 

  Mahir Çayan, one of the revolutionary leaders of the ‘68s generation, was commemorated at his grave in Ankara.
• Can: Support for HDP is increasing 

  The Spokesperson of the 78s Initiative Celalettin Can stated that the closure case against the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) is a futile effort and that support for the HDP has increased.
• Women Defend Rojava to take to the streets in Berlin on Öcalan's birthday 

  The Berlin Committee of Women Defend Rojava calls for an internationalist demonstration "United in Resistance - Together against War and Fascism" on 4 April, Öcalan's birthday, in the federal capital.
• Student activists call for boycott on 1 April 

  University students called for participation in a press statement they will make on 1 April at Kadıköy Rıhtım at 5 pm to demand the release of their friends who were detained and put to house arrest.
• Operation aginst TUHAD-FED in Çukurova leads to at least 11 arrests 

  Çukurova TUHAD-FED was raided today and at least 11 people were taken into custody.
• Activists around Europe take to the streets for Shengal 

  Protests have been held in front of the embassies of Iraq in various European countries calling for the recognition of the self-determination of the majority Yazidi population of Shengal in south Kurdistan.