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• Food prices increase, inflation reaches 11.77% 

  Turkey registered an annual hike of 11.77% in consumer prices in August, the country's statistical authority, TÜIK, announced today. 
• Sydney Council passes motion in solidarity with Kurdish mayors 

  Australian local government council passes motion in solidarity with persecuted Kurdish mayors.
• Edremit trustee presents new project: The Floating Hotel 

  The beautiful natural spots of Van Lake have recently turned into the AKP's way to make money.
• DIE LINKE Co-chair: Stop arms exports to Turkey 

  Bernd Riexinger, co-chair of the DIE LINKE party, visited the Kurdish association in Essen and declared that the least the Federal Republic of Germany had to do in view of the Turkish military operations was to stop arms exports.
• Turkey extends natural gas exploration after threats of war 

  After its threats of war, the Turkish government has announced a further extension of its exploratory work in the eastern Mediterranean, which is highly controversial under international law.
• US partially lifts arms embargo on Cyprus 

  Secretary Pompeo temporarily waives restrictions on the sale of non-lethal defense articles and services to the Republic of Cyprus.
• Macron launches initiative for the "sovereignty" of Iraq 

  The French President has announced a visit to Iraq to help the country strengthen its "sovereignty".
• MIT agent arrested in Vienna confesses 

  According to ANF's investigation, the Turkish intelligence officer who is currently being detained in a Vienna prison was living in the Upper Austria (Oberösterreich) province before being caught.
• Government tries to get citizens to pay for economic crisis 

  The AKP-MHP government is struggling with debt is trying to make citizens pay for its reckless war policies.
• Tribute to martyr Ivana Hoffmann on her 25th birthday 

  MLKP fighter Ivana Hoffmann, code-named Avaşin Tekoşin Güneş, fell martyr in a clash with ISIS mercenaries in the city of Til Temir, Rojava on 7 March 2015. She was commemorated at her grave on the day of her 25th birthday.  
• Activists across Europe celebrate Peace Day 

  Trade unions, peace organizations and political parties took to the streets against war and armament on 1 September, World Peace Day in many cities across Europe.
• September 1 demo in Sydney: Peace will come with Öcalan 

  Demonstrators protested against the silence of international community and states on the crimes of the Turkish state.
• New sea rescue ship to be called "Ghalib Kurdi” 

  The sea rescue organization Sea-Eye wants to name its new ship "Ghalib Kurdi". Ghalib was the two years older brother of Alan Kurdi, whose photo went around the world. The two brothers and their mother drowned in the Mediterranean Sea five years ago.
• Peace Day: Peace instead of war, freedom instead of isolation 

  Demonstrations to mark the International Day of Peace September 1 took place In Amed, Van and Istanbul where people said: “The address for a solution and peace is Imrali.”
• Lawyers submit another application to visit Öcalan 

  The lawyers of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan have again applied for a visit to the Chief Public Prosecutor's Office in Bursa.
• World Peace Day in Turkey: Police attack human chain 

  HDP’s peace action at Ankara railroad station has been disbanded by the police. The action on the International Day of Peace was intended to commemorate the victims of the ISIS massacre at the same place.
• Children of Fire Initiative carries out 101 actions in one month 

  The Children of Fire Initiative claimed that they have burned 11 factories, 45 vehicles, 15 warehouses, 3 supermarkets and 2 military barracks in one month.
• Young people take over Freedom for Öcalan Vigil 

  Young people who took over the Freedom for Öcalan Vigil issued a call to invite activists to join the Freedom March with the spirit of Serhildan.
• Kurdish Youth calls on people to join long march for Öcalan 

  A long march with the slogan "For the Freedom of Rêber Apo, Serhildan Together" will be held between the cities of Hannover and Hamburg between 5 and 11 September.
• US vetoes UN Security Council resolution in ISIS mercenaries 

  The United States vetoed a UN Security Council resolution on ISIS mercenaries and their families as it fell short to include repatriation from Syria and Iraq to their countries of origin.
• Protest against isolation, war and femicide in Toronto 

  Kurds and their friends took to the streets in Toronto to mark the International Day of Peace.
• Deposed co-mayor of Karayazı taken into custody 

  In the province of Erzurum, the co-mayor of Karayazı district, who was deposed by the Ministry of the Interior, and three other persons have been arrested.
• Case against Cansu Özdemir over PKK flag closed 

  The legal dispute over Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) picture published on Twitter by Cansu Özdemir, the co-chair of the DIE LINKE parliamentary group in the Hamburg Parliament, is over. 
• Erdoğan challenges Greece, France over the Mediterranean conflict 

  The Turkish regime leader Erdoğan speaks in ever shriller tones in the gas dispute in the Mediterranean. He describes Paris and Athens as "greedy" and "incompetent" and threatens war.
• KON-MED: Öcalan shows the way to a dignified peace 

  On the occasion of the International Day of Peace on September 1, Kurdish umbrella organization in Germany said: "Öcalan shows us the way to a dignified peace, co-existence, women's freedom and an end to environmental destruction.”