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• 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”.
• Demonstrations throughout Europe for Shengal 

  Kurds living in different parts of Europe took to the streets on Saturday to protest against the agreement signed between the Iraqi government and the KDP.
• Over 500 people from Rojava in Turkish prisons 

  Over 500 people from Northern Syria are in Turkish prisons. Most of them have been kidnapped in Afrin and other occupied territories for the purpose of extorting ransom money. If they cannot pay, they are handed over to the Turkish judiciary.
• Bars and cafes workers ask the government for incentives 

  Cafe and bar workers, who have been left unemployed due to the restrictions connected to the pandemic, organised a silent action in Kadıköy, Istanbul.
• Families see their application to visit Imrali rejected 

  The application filed by families to visit Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan and the other prisoners in Imrali has been rejected on the grounds of disciplinary punishment.
• HDP former Ağrı MP Halil Aksoy released from prison 

  HDP former Ağrı MP Halil Aksoy has been released from Kandira prison after more than four years. The sentence was surprisingly lifted after he was sentenced to almost nine years in prison.
• KCDK-E: To Stuttgart for Öcalan tomorrow! 

  KCDK-E called on the youth to mobilize for the march to be organized in Stuttgart tomorrow for the freedom of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Hungarian court sentences ISIS member to life imprisonment 

  Budapest District Court sentenced an ISIS member named F. Hassan, 28, to life imprisonment for the crimes he committed in Syria.
• Öcalan posters put up in Hamburg 

  Posters were hung in Hamburg to call attention to the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Families apply to be granted visit to Imrali 

  Families of Abdullah Öcalan and three other political prisoners in Imralı island prison applied once again to be granted a visit.
• “Freedom for Öcalan” demos in Lucerne and Dortmund 

  In Lucerne and Dortmund there have been protests for the freedom of the Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan and the defense of the autonomy of the Shengal region.
• Ban on actions and activities in Van reaches day 1474 

  The Governorship of Van extended the "ban on actions and activities" in the city for 15 more days.
• KON-MED calls on people to join march for Öcalan in Stuttgart 

  KON-MED called on people to join the march to be held in Stuttgart to demand freefom for Kurdish people's leader Öcalan.
• Window to prevent famine in Yemen is narrowing, UN agencies warn 

  The window to prevent famine in Yemen is narrowing as new figures reveal record highs of acute food insecurity in the country, the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), the UN World Food Programme (WFP) and UNICEF warned.
• Farewell to two TKP/ML and TİKKO fighters martyred in Dersim 

  Funeral ceremony was held for socialist fighters Volkan İldem (Nubar) and Ali Kemal Yılmaz who fell as martyrs in Dersim.
• 50 new summaries of proceedings against HDP MPs 

  50 of the 62 new summaries of proceedings submitted to the Turkish Parliament were prepared against HDP deputies.
• Earthquake in Kurtalan: Hospital evacuated, HDP visits victims 

  Many buildings have been damaged because of the earthquake in Kurtalan. The district hospital was evacuated and an HDP delegation rushed to the earthquake zone.
• Armenians in Germany receive death threats from Grey Wolves 

  The Turkish state's paramilitary racist mobs, the Grey Wolves, make death threats against Armenians living in Germany as the Federal Assembly debated to ban them in Germany last month.