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• Swedish Left Party asks foreign minister about Imrali isolation 

  The Swedish Left Party brought up in a written parliamentary question the isolation imposed on Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan and his companions held in İmralı Island prison in Turkey.
• EU pursues appeasement policy instead of sanctions on Turkey 

  Once again, EU sanctions against Turkish fascism have been blocked at the EU summit, while a decision going beyond sanctions against companies and individuals was postponed until March.
• 'Freedom for Öcalan Committee' established in Sweden 

  A committee has been formed in Sweden for the freedom of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan on the occasion of December 10 Human Rights Day.
• "Öcalan is a citizen of Rome" 

  The Italian committee ‘Freedom for Öcalan’ has presented its activities to date and its demands at a press conference in Rome.
• Campaign for Öcalan's freedom launched in Finland 

  The organizers of the campaign are planning to continue their works and projects to bring up Öcalan's situation and to demand his freedom by giving seminars, panels and distributing information.
• EU to approve sanctions over Turkish gas drilling – report 

  EU leaders will tell officials “to adopt additional listings ... in view of Turkey’s unauthorised drilling activities in the eastern Mediterranean,” the latest draft says.
• Freedom for Öcalan signature campaign continues in Norway 

  A petition was launched by intellectuals and politicians demanding freedom of Kurdish people's keader Abdullah Öcalan in Norway.
• Kurdish institutions call on the EU to not ignore Turkish crimes 

  The European Union should not ignore the crimes committed by the Turkish state against the Kurds, say dozens of Kurdish institutions and parties.
• Court sends HDP Youth Council member Ercan Oğuz to jail 

  HDP Youth Council member Ercan Oğuz, who was taken into custody on his way from Cizre to Şırnak, was remanded in custody.
• Mobile clinic in Dêrik takes up work 

  The mobile clinic, a health project of the "Town Twinning Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg - Dêrik" association, was able to start work in the Dêrik area. The prevention and treatment of diseases in the region will thus be significantly improved.
• Political genocide continues: Six detained in Adana and Mersin 

  The Turkish regime’s political genocide operations continue across the country.
• US House of Representatives wants sanctions on Turkey 

  Draft bill on Turkey sanctions was passed by the US House of Representatives.
• Switzerland to deport two siblings from Maxmur to Turkey 

  The two brothers who stayed in a camp in Aarau Canton of Switzerland left the village of Akduman (Mijîn) in Şırnak's Uludere district in 1994 due to the pressures of the Turkish state and settled in Maxmur Camp as a family.
• Revolutions from Rojava to Washington, an online conference 

  A two-day panel is taking place titled "Revolutions from Rojava to Washington" on Thursday and Friday organised by activists in Hungary.
• Demo for Öcalan’s freedom in Bordeaux 

  Demonstrations in protest at the isolation regime imposed on Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan continue all around the world.
• KCDK-E calls for protests against Turkey on December 12 

  Making a statement on World Human Rights Day, KCDK-E invited everyone to the streets against the Turkish state on December 12th.
• Five people detained in Bulanık, Muş 

  The Turkish regime’s political genocide operations against the Kurdish people continues unabated.
• Shopkeepers: We will die of hunger, not pandemic! 

  Taylan Kaçar runs a bar in Kadıköy, İstanbul. The bar has been closed since March, when the epidemic first erupted. However, rent and taxes are still charged of him. "We will die of hunger, not corona," he says.
• EU discusses possible sanctions on Turkey 

  Foreign ministers of European Union discuss sanctions on Turkey in Brussels ahead of the EU leaders summit that will start on Thursday.
• Germany to deport Kurdish refugees to Bulgaria 

  The German government has announced that it will deport 86 refugees, including Kurds, to Bulgaria in the near future. The close relations of the Sofia government with the Erdogan regime in recent years cause serious concern for refugees.
• Campaign for Irish Unity kicks off in Belfast 

  A campaign for a United Ireland campaign has been launched in Belfast.
• Belgian companies undermine arms embargo against Turkey 

  A loophole in the export legislation allows Flemish companies to export parts for aircraft used by Turkey in the war in Syria, Libya and Artsakh, reports the Belgian newspaper De Morgen.
• HDP Youth Assembly calls for solidarity with hunger strike 

  HDP Youth Assembly called for solidarity with the hunger strike actions started in prisons in protest at the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan.
• Demo for Öcalan and Shengal in Sydney 

  Kurds and their friends continue to protest against the agreement signed between the Iraqi government and the KDP on the future of Shengal where autonomous structures are meant to be dissolved.
• Youth in Stuttgart demand freedom for Öcalan 

  Hundreds of people took to the streets in Stuttgart on Saturday demanding freedom of Abdullah Öcalan under the slogan “Together for an uprising”.