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• DEM Party deputies hold public meeting in Vienna 

  DEM Party Van MP Gülcan Kaçmaz Sayyiğit and Antalya MP Saruhan Oluç spoke about the latest developments in Turkey and North Kurdistan after the 31 March local elections.
• DEM Party delegation meets Graz mayor  

  DEM Party MP Gülcan Kaçmaz Sayyiğit was part of the delegation that met with Graz mayor Elke Kahr. The MP gave information about the Imralı isolation and local elections.
• Dr. Driver: Justice is being destroyed in Imralı before the eyes of the world 

  Reading University Lecturer Dr. Deepa Driver criticized the silence of international organizations against the isolation and said: "Not only is a leader wanted to be buried alive in Imrali, but justice is being destroyed in front of the eyes of the world.
• Young women march in Stuttgart, demanding “Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan” 

  Young women organised a march in Stuttgart for the freedom of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan, from whom no news has been received for the last three years.
• Ömer Öcalan: If isolation does not end, there will be no solution 

  DEM Party MP Ömer Öcalan said, "The solution lies in ending the isolation. When Mr Öcalan speaks, the way for a solution opens."
• Journalist Celal Başlangıç laid to rest in Cologne 

  Journalist Celal Başlangıç was laid to rest in Cologne. Many people from his family and circle of friends, from the media, politics and civil society bid him farewell for the last time.
• DEM Party: There can be no normalisation by excluding oppressed peoples and identities 

  Remarking that the court decision on the Kobanê Conspiracy Case will be important, DEM Party Spokesperson Ayşegül Doğan said, "There can be no real normalisation or détente by excluding the oppressed peoples and different identities living in Turkey."
• Voters in Iran go to the polls for the second round 

  90 candidates are competing for 45 seats in the second round of the elections held on 1 March.
• Iranian forces kills another kolbar  

  Iranian forces killed another kolbar on the border between Southern and Eastern Kurdistan.
• Panel about Kurdish and Amazigh people  

  Abdullah Öcalan Academy of Social Sciences organized a panel via Zoom with the participation of Kurdish and Amazigh intellectuals.
• Report from Rojava: Speaking Tour on Direct Democracy  

  The Emergency Committee for Rojava will organize a speaking tour on Rojava. The first meeting is on Saturday in Bellingham.
• 10 years in prison and release order for former Nusaybin Municipality co-mayor Kaya 

  Former co-mayor of Nusaybin Municipality, Sara Kaya, was sentenced to 10 years and 6 months in prison, but her release was ordered in the trial celebrated after the Supreme Court's reversal of its decision.
• Female ISIS member sentenced to prison in Germany 

  In 2015, a German-Russian woman who now lives in Austria followed her husband to the ISIS pseudo-state in Syria. The Düsseldorf Higher Regional Court has sentenced her to one year and nine months in prison, but she will not have to go to jail.
• X-Space: Freeing Abdullah Öcalan meeting 

  Öcalan Vigil will organize an International Twitter-Space on 9 May.
• Israeli media: Turkey approves renewal of exports to Israel 

  According to the Israeli media, Turkey’s temporary approval to resume supplies to Israel stems from a meeting in Ankara that took place yesterday between senior officials of the Turkey-Israel Chamber of Commerce and Turkey's Ministry of Trade.
• Minister of Internal Affairs says 72 people taken into custody in past few days  

  Minister of Internal Affairs Ali Yerlikaya announced that 72 people were detained in house raids carried out in recent days.
• Prof. Miley: The CPT should take immediate action to provide information about Öcalan 

  Prof. Jeffrey Miley said that the CPT should take immediate action to provide information about Abdullah Öcalan's health.
• Second attack targeting DEM Party office in Birecik 

  Second attack targeted the district building of the DEM Party in Birecik.
• TCŞ members in Hamburg protest Imrali isolation 

  TCŞ members exposed the system of isolation, torture and genocide against Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan at a stand they opened on a busy street in Hamburg.
• DBP meeting final declaration: Abdullah Öcalan is the subject of peace 

  In the final declaration of the DBP PM meeting, it was noted that the peoples once again expressed that the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan, whose mission is to establish peace, should be lifted as soon as possible.
• Activists on vigil in Geneva protest the isolation of Öcalan and attacks on Kurdistan 

  In the ongoing demonstration for the freedom of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan in Geneva, activists protested the İmralı isolation and occupation attacks and commemorated the martyrs who fell in May.
• Joint letter to the CPT calls for urgent action against the isolation of Öcalan 

  MPs, trade unionists and academics in Britain wrote to the CPT, urging the institution to urgently send a delegation to İmralı Island where Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan is held in aggravated isolation.
• Co-Chair system of Rojava, an online session  

  Online session to explain the co-chair system in Rojava.
• Activists from Duisburg take over Freedom for Öcalan Vigil in Strasbourg 

  A group of Kurdish activists from Duisburg took over the Freedom for Öcalan Vigil in Strasbourg. On the 619th week, they called for "stronger actions to break isolation."
• Man hit by police motorcycle in Amed dies 

  Gültekin Öztürk, who was hit by the police with a motorcycle in Amed's Peyas district, lost his life.