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• Young women celebrate Öcalan's birthday playing daf in the streets of Zurich 

  A group of young Kurdish women played daf in the streets of Zurich wearing their traditional dresses to celebrate the birthday of Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• KCDK-E celebrates Easter and calls on everyone to defend differences together 

  The Kurdish European umbrella organization KCDK-E sent Easter greetings in a statement saying: "We have to promote the coexistence of the various religious identities by fighting together for a free life with equal rights."
• Peace in Kurdistan Campaign: Birthday greetings to Andullah Öcalan in solidarity and friendship 

  Peace in Kurdistan Campaign has sent birthday greetings to Abdullah Öcalan "in solidarity and friendship."
• Kurds in Europe celebrate Abdullah Öcalan's birthday 

  The birthday of Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan is being celebrated with different events in Heilbronn, Saarbrücken and Paris.
• Turkish fascists attack Kurdish association in Lyon, injuring 4 

  The Kurdish association in Lyon, France, has been attacked by fascists of Turkey’s "Grey Wolves". Four members were injured, some seriously. The umbrella organization CDK-F speaks of organized attacks, presumably on the directive of the Turkish MIT.
• Gergerlioğlu: It is not me who is jailed, but 90 thousand people who voted for me 

  HDP MP Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu, who has been jailed after revocation of his parliamentary membership, said, “I am a deputy of the people, even in prison. We will definitively return. No tyranny will ever stop us.”
• Abducted from hospital, HDP MP Gergerlioğlu taken to Sincan Prison 

  HDP MP Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu is reported to have been taken to the high security prison in Sincan district of Ankara unbeknown to his family, lawyers and party.
• "Freedom for Öcalan, Status for Kurdistan!" 

  In Zurich, Hamburg and Aurich, activists have demanded freedom for Abdullah Öcalan. The isolation of the Kurdish leader, who has been imprisoned on Imrali for 22 years, must be lifted and immediate contact made possible, they demanded.
• HDP: Gergerlioğlu’s resistance is a fight for human dignity 

  HDP politician Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu has apparently been abducted from the hospital in Ankara.
• Ögmundur Jónasson writes to Secretary General of COE about situation of Abdullah Öcalan 

  Member of the international delegation to Imrali, Ögmundur Jónasson, wrote to Secretary General of the Council of Europe to raise the issue of the isolation imposed on Abdullah Öcalan.
• TEV-DEM celebrates Abdullah Öcalan's birthday 

  Celebrating the birthday of Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan, TEV-DEM called on all social, political and legal organizations as well as civil society organizations to work for Abdullah Öcalan's freedom.
• Let’s Talk About Öcalan podcast talks about his contributions 

  For the late sociologist David Graeber “Öcalan has made genuine contributions to social theory and history, to human knowledge with limited material allowed."
• Police detain 8 people in Adana 

  Eight people were detained in political genocide operations carried out in Adana.
• Emine Şenyaşar: We can no longer live in these lands 

  Emine Şenyaşar protested the prison sentence of 37 years and 9 months handed out to her son Fadıl Şenyaşar. “We can no longer live in this land anymore. What kind of state is this" she asked.
• Turkish police tighten security measures as Öcalan’s birthday approaches 

  The AKP-MHP government blockaded Amara two days before the birthday of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• HDP deputy Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu detained at his house 

  HDP Kocaeli MP Ömer Faruk Gergerlioğlu has been arrested in his apartment. The police didn't even give him time to put his shoes on.
• HDP says judiciary should not be a partner in crimes of government 

  HDP Co-Vice Chair in charge of Law and Human Rights Commission Ümit Dede and HDP members made a statement in front of the Ankara Courthouse, where the interlocutory hearing of the 'Kobanê Hearing' has been held.
• Swiss MPs urge the government to put pressure on Turkey 

  33 MPs of the Federal Assembly of Switzerland have called for pressure on Turkey in a letter which highlights human rights violations committed by the Turkish state in its own country and in Syria, Iraq, Libya and Armenia.
• Police attack university students, detain many in Istanbul 

  In Istanbul, a student protest was once again broken up by the police, and several participants were arrested. The rally was about tomorrow's start of the trial of two people who are in custody because of the Boğaziçi protests.
• Ebru Günay: "This is no longer just about the HDP" 

  "These proceedings go far beyond the HDP, they concern the future of Turkey,” said HDP spokeswoman Ebru Günay regarding the ban proceedings against her party and MHP leader Bahçeli's call for the Constitutional Court to be closed.
• Lawyers apply once again 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.
• 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.