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• Serhildan – France organizes videoconference on current situation in Kurdistan 

  On 30 April, Serhildan – France is organizing a videoconference on the current situation in Kurdistan as the Turkish regime has intensified its attacks targeting the Kurds of Rojava and Iraqi Kurdistan.
• Seven of the nine Kurdish activists arrested in France released 

  CDK-F welcomed the release of seven of the nine Kurdish activists arrested last week in France.
• Solidarity with Kurdish people expressed during Liberation Day demo in Bologna 

  Activists expressed their solidarity with the struggle of the Kurdish people, calling for resistance against fascism all around the world.
• MAK says it carried out action in Erzurum 

  MAK militia announced that they had carried out an action with molotovs and fragmented handmade explosives at the house of an agent of the Turkish state, in Erzurum Xinûs.
• HBDH:Without a real confrontation with the Armenian genocide, there can be no reckoning with fascism 

  HBDH Executive Committee called for confronting the Armenian genocide and reckoning with with fascism on the 109th anniversary.
• 'The execution of Kurdish businesspeople was carried out by the National Security Council decision' 

  DEM Party Van MP Pervin Buldan brought a report labelled "secret" proving that Kurdish businesspeople were executed by the decision of MGK to the agenda of the Parliament.
• CDK-F: Administrative repression against the Kurds must stop! 

  The CDK-F called on people to join the protest to be held on 27 April in Paris against the repression of the Kurds in France.
• Newroz celebrated for the first time in Madrid 

  In Madrid, Spain, a Newroz celebration was held for the first time with the efforts of the Kurdish people and the international movement.
• Co-chair of DEM Party Batman Provincial Organisation detained 

  Mustafa Mesut Tekik, co-chair of DEM Party Batman Provincial Organisation, was detained after a raid on his house.
• European Left Party condemns raids on Kurdish media outlets in Belgium, demanding accountability 

  The European Left Party demanded a thorough explanation and accountability from the Belgian authorities regarding the raids on the Kurdish media.
• Karavanagh: Abdullah Öcalan gives hope to people 

  Paul Karavanagh, one of the directors of the Martin Mc Guinnes Paece Foundation, said that Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan's mind is not in prison. "He leads with his writings and teachings. It gives hope.”
• Trade unions say they wont recognize governor ban of Taksim Square for 1 May celebration 

  After the governorship banned Taksim on 1 May, trade unions went to Taksim Square and announced that they did not recognize the decision.
• Activists on vigil in Geneva condemn attacks against Kurds 

  During the action organised in Geneva for more than three years to demand the freedom of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan, activists condemned the police operation against Kurdish TV studios in Belgium and Kurdish association in France.
• Armenian Genocide: Grand commemoration in Yerevan 

  The 109th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide was gloriously commemorated in Yerevan, the capital of Armenia.
• Police storm DEM Party building in Batman 

  The building of the DEM Party's Batman Provincial Organisation was raided by Turkish police.
• DEM Party calls for confrontation with the Armenian Genocide 

  DEM Party Central Executive Committee commemorated the victims of the Armenian Genocide that took place 109 years ago and called on the Turkish state to face the genocide.
• 109 years ago, the Armenian Genocide 

  Today Armenians all over the world commemorate the 109th anniversary of the April 1915 Genocide.
• Lawyer Lesage: Attitude towards Kurdish television political, not legal 

  French lawyer Etienne Lesage said that "the police raid on a media outlet whose doors are open to everyone and who wants to express themselves freely is extremely worrying in terms of the rule of law and democracy."
• Activists in Stockholm protest raid on Sterk TV and Medya Haber 

  The police raid on Sterk TV and Medya Haber was protested in Stockholm.
• Attacks on Kurdish Free Press protested in Europe 

  People took to the streets in many European cities to protest the state terrorism against Free Press workers and the Kurdish media.
• Mesopotamia Platform of Religions and Beliefs: Medya Haber and Stêrk TV are our voice 

  "Medya Haber and Stêrk TV are the voices of Yazidis, Democratic Islam, Alevi faith, women, peoples and the people of four parts of Kurdistan," said the Mesopotamia Platform of Religions and Beliefs and called for an end to attacks against Kurdish press.
• Demo in front of the Embassy of Belgium in London denounces police operation against Kurdish press 

  Kurds gathered in front of the Embassy of Belgium in London to protest the raids against Stêrk TV and Medya Haber TV.
• MEP Villumsen: Erdoğan’s oppression has no place in the EU! 

  Growing reactions against the Belgian police operation against Kurdish media.
• George Katsiaficas expresses solidarity with the Kurdish people against all-out attacks 

  George Katsiaficas called for a joint struggle by the Kurds and the people of the world to confront the oppressive world system now in control of world wealth.
• KNK: Turkey is exporting its anti-Kurdish war to Europe  

  KNK called on the Belgian government to prevent the Turkish state from exporting its Kurdish conflict to Belgium, to uphold both domestic and international laws and to refrain from acting lawlessly in alignment with Turkish policies.