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• MEPs write to Leyen and Michel ahead of visit to Turkey 

  MEPs wrote to Leyen and Michel and expressed concern about the multiple structural and political problems of Erdoğan’s regime, saying they hope that these issues will be considered and addressed during their meeting with President Erdoğan.
• Lawyers apply again to visit Öcalan 

  Abdullah Öcalan's lawyers have applied once again to visit their client in Imrali.
• Democratic Socialists of America express solidarity with HDP 

  The Democratic Socialists of America (DSA), the widest socialist movement in the USA, issued a statement in solidarity with the HDP.
• US sanctions on Turkey for Russian S-400 surface-to-air missile system come into effect tomorrow 

  The United States imposed sanctions on Turkey for purchase of S-400 surface-to-air missile system from Russia. The sanctions come into effect tomorrow, Wednesday.
• Activists from Nuremberg take over Freedom for Öcalan Vigil on week 459 

  A group of activists from Nuremberg took over the 459th week of the Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan Vigil in front of the CPT in Strasbourg.
• Over 27 organisations demand a halt to repression of Kurds in France 

  A press conference will be held today at 10 am at the Maison des associations in Grenoble. Over 27 organisations condemned and demanded a halt to the police raids and the fascist attacks against Kurds in France.
• Police storm and search the HDP office in Adıyaman 

  The Turkish state’s genocidal campaign against the HDP continues growing.
• Political prisoners in Turkey on day 130 of hunger strike 

  The hunger strike launched in Turkish prisons against the Imrali isolation has entered its 130th day. The solidarity hunger strike launched in Maxmur has been continuing for 109 days and that in Greece for 92 days.
• Turkish police confiscate opposition newspaper as 'criminal element' 

  Turkish police confiscated opposition Kurdish newspaper Yeni Yaşam as a criminal element during home raids in Amed (Diyarbakir).
• Kurds celebrate Öcalan’s birthday in Russia 

  Kurds living in the Russian capital Moscow and Tambov region celebrated the birthday of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• EU to present road map to Erdogan 

  The European Union officials on Tuesday will debate over economic relations and financial support for refugees with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan.
• Tuncel writes to the Turkish government to end Öcalan’s isolation 

  "The indefinite-alternating hunger strikes that started at the end of November and which I took part in, will continue as long as the isolation policy remains in place," said Sebahat Tuncel, former co-chair of the DBP.
• Police attack Kurdish activists in civil disobedience action in front of the CPT 

  French police attacked the group with pepper gas and batons and detained at least two of the demonstrators.
• Lawyers apply again to visit Imrali  

  Abdullah Öcalan's lawyers have applied once again to visit their client in Imrali.
• Second night of riots in the North of Ireland 

  Petrol bombs have been thrown at the PSNI for a second night in the North of Ireland as loyalist paramilitaries have continued to orchestrate violence.
• Academics, politicians, filmmakers in France call for freedom for Öcalan 

  Dozens of politicians, lawyers, academics and journalists in France, called for the freedom of Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• 19th group of Kurdish refugees takes over hunger strike in Greek camp 

  New group has taken over the hunger strike in Lavrio camp, in Greece, demanding the end to the isolation imposed on Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• 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.