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• Demo against the isolation of Öcalan blockaded by police in Amed 

  Police blockaded activists from the HDP Youth Assembly who organized a demonstration in Amed to protest the isolation of Öcalan. The activists protested the police with slogans.
• YPS-JIN Martyr Berfin Cizre unit carries out action in Adana 

  YPS-JIN Martyr Berfin Cizre Retaliation Team carried out an action against the workshop of an AKP-MHP collaborator in Adana.
• Court sentences Former DBP Amed Provincial co-chair to 6 years in jail 

  Former DBP Amed Provincial co-chair Garip Kandemir was sentenced to 6 years and 3 months in prison.
• Italian trade unions join 'Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan' campaign 

  The Italian trade unions COBAS, CUB and UNICOBAS have sent a letter to the United Nations to support the campaign "The Time Has Come: Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan towards a just peace in Turkey".
• Turkish Statistical Institute confirms inflaction is increasing 

  The Turkish Statistical Institute (TÜİK) cannot hide the economic crisis heavily affecting Turkey.
• Shopkeepers in Batman struggle to survive as economic crisis deepens 

  Due to the economic crisis in Turkey and North Kurdistan, the situation of the population continues to deteriorate. Shopkeepers in Batman say that despite the shops being open, they no longer have any income.
• Peace in Kurdistan stands in solidarity with students and lecturers at Bozagici University 

  Peace in Kurdistan stands in solidarity with students and lecturers at Istanbul’s Bozagici University and demands the immediate release of all those being held following this week’s mass arrests.
• Seven people remanded in custody in Van 

  Seven out of 10 people who were taken into custody in the Van-based political police operations carried out on 28 January have been sent to prison.
• Court sends two HDP Youth Council executives to prison 

  HDP officials Sevim Akdağ and Hülya Ertaş who were taken into custody during an operation against the HDP Youth Council have been sent to prison.
• Hundreds arrested during student protests in Turkey 

  Hundreds of people were again arrested during student protests in Istanbul against the appointment of an AKP party supporter as rector of Boğaziçi University. The police were extremely brutal, using tear gas and plastic bullets.
• Vigil by Kurdish activists in front of the UN office in Geneva continues 

  The solidarity action in solidarity with the political prisoners on hunger strike in Turkey has continued in front of the UN headquarters in Geneva.
• Kurds protest Turkish Defense Minister Akar in Berlin 

  Two weeks after talks with Baghdad and Hewlêr, the Turkish defense minister visits Berlin - officially for a working meeting with his German counterpart on the gas dispute between Greece and Turkey.
• MEPs urge Council of Europe to 'use any means at its disposal' to ensure Demirtaş's release 

  Turkey has not implemented an ECtHR Grand Chamber for the immediate release of Selahattin Demirtaş, former co-chair of the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP).
• Students protest at Boğaziçi University: "We are not giving up" 

  Protests at Istanbul's Boğaziçi University continue despite massive repression. Hundreds of teachers and students protested against the mass arrests in front of the rector's office on Tuesday.
• Police insult and threaten Boğaziçi University Students  

  Boğaziçi University students, who were battered and detained while protesting the trustee rector appointed by President decree, were exposed to insults, violence and threats in the vehicles used for their detention.
• Amed suffers increased unemployment due to crisis and Covid 

  HDP politician Şaziye Köse reported on the economic situation in Amed against the background of the pandemic and spoke of 30,000 new unemployed and over 1,100 shops that have gone bankrupt.
• Sulaymaniyah Governor calls for unity among Kurds 

  Sulaymaniyah Governor Haval Abubakir called for unity among the Kurdish parties.
• KON-MED calls on people to protest Turkish Defense Minister in Berlin 

  The Turkish Defense Minister arrives in Berlin today, Tuesday, to get the green light for a new attack on Rojava and Shengal. "And with him comes the protest", said the umbrella organization KON-MED inviting people to demonstrate.
• KOMAW: Kurds spoiled the conspiracy against Öcalan 

  KOMAW called “all the Kurdish people, especially all families of martyrs and their relatives, to a more active struggle for the unity and freedom of the Kurds."
• Ceni: "No to the German-Turkish brotherhood in arms" 

  Regarding the meeting of defense ministers from Turkey and Germany, the Kurdish Women's Office for Peace asks the public in Germany: "Do you really not care that this federal government makes itself an accomplice to genocide?"
• Police use violence against students protesting in Izmir 

  After Istanbul, another protest was also attacked by police in Izmir. The action was directed against the arrest of two Boğaziçi students. At least 27 were taken into custody.
• Nearly 100 students detained during protests at Boğaziçi -UPDATE 

  Turkish police broke up a rally in Istanbul against the appointment of an Erdoğan minion as rector of Boğaziçi University. Around 100 students were detained.
• ECHR asks AKP-MHP justification on decision regarding Demirtaş detention 

  The European Court of Human Rights asked to the AKP-MHP government to justify some of the decision in relation to the detention of former HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş.
• Activists call to protest visit by Turkish Defense Minister in Berlin 

  The “Free Kurdish Community Berlin” calls for a protest against the visit of the Turkish Defense Minister in Berlin tomorrow, Tuesday.
• Court in Van remands one in custody 

  Muhammed Orhan had been arrested in Van on 29 January. He was remanded in custody on charges of "committing a crime on behalf of an illegal organization".