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• Libya: Turkey and Qatar want to train Muslim Brotherhood troops 

  Turkey, Qatar and the Muslim Brotherhood regime in Tripoli have signed a military agreement to train the troops of the so-called unity government.
• UN hails aid workers after record attacks 

  The United Nations (UN) paid tribute Wednesday to humanitarian workers now battling the COVID-19 pandemic after a year in which they found themselves under greater attack than ever before.
• Amed mayor Mızraklı: Who resists will always have the last word! 

  "Our last word is that, despite this genocide and massacre practices, this people will not kneel against you and will destroy the reign of these tyrants with their resistance," said the deposed and imprisoned mayor of Amed (Diyarbakır).
• Trustee leaves Hakkari without clean water 

  In Hakkari, known as the city of mountains and water, people cannot find clean water despite the city center being surrounded by mountains, and there are many streams passing through the city center.
• EUTCC: Kurdish Women's Movement strengthening unity 

  Interview with Kariane Westrheim, chair of the EU Turkey Civic Commission (EUTCC).
• United against the war industry 

  In the run-up to the blockade of the Rheinmetall armaments group in Kassel on August 28, an online series of events is taking place.
• Presidents of bar associations visit lawyers on death fast 

  Lawyer Ebru Timtik has been on death fast for 229 days and her colleague Aytaç Ünsal for 198 days.
• Racist murder in Turkey: Syrian refugee killed in Istanbul 

  A refugee from Syria has been killed in an open street during a racist attack in Istanbul. "Go back to Syria," the perpetrator shouted, before gunning down the 21-year-old with two shots.
• Lawyers submit request to visit Öcalan 

  Abdullah Öcalan's team of lawyers has again applied for a visit permit for their client, who is imprisoned on the prison island of Imrali.
• AKP-imposed mayor of Tusba runs council as family business 

  Salih Akman, who lost the elections against HDP co-chair candidates Yılmaz Berki and Ayşe Minaz by a clear margin in the 31 March 2019 elections, was appointed as mayor of Tusba by decree after the elections.
• Italian internationalist: United we can achieve everything 

  Maria Edgarda Marcucci (Eddi) is one of the internationalists who went to Rojava.
• Court in Hakkari sends 12 people to jail  

  Turkish judiciary arrested 12 of the 13 people taken into custody in Hakkari.
• Journalist Gulliou: Kurds rightly ask for an apology from Sweden 

  Swedish journalist and writer Jan Gulliou said the Swedish police tried to blame the murder of Olof Palme on the PKK but was soon uncovered in its "cheap and primitive political theory."
• Group from Oldenburg takes over Freedom for Öcalan Vigil  

  The Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan Vigil has been taken over on week 426 by a group of activists from Oldenburg, Germany.
• Jinên Tîrêjên Rojê claims actions for Ocalan  

  Jinên Tîrêjên Rojê said in a written statement: "A series of actions have been taken against the isolation and pressure on Abdullah Ocalan and all prisoners."
• Kurdish association in Meschede raises flag 

  In front of the Kurdish association in Meschede, a flag in green, red and yellow was hoisted on the "Day of Resurrection of the Kurdish People". There were also ceremonial activities in Heilbronn, Hamburg and Duisburg.
• SOHR: Turkey sent new batch of Syrian fighters to Libya 

  SOHR said that the number of jihadists who were transported from Syria to Libya reached 10,000.
• 16 people detained in Siirt 

  In the province of Siirt, 16 people have been taken into police custody since Saturday after house searches. It is not clear what they are accused of.
• Death threats target Colombian Senator Cepeda 

  Colombian Senator Ivan Cepeda said he has received death threats against him and his family for their participation in the judicial process that led to the house arrest of former President Alvaro Uribe.
• Activists in many European cities celebrate 15 August 1984 

  Kurds and their friends celebrated 15 August 1984 in many European cities.
• Wave of arrests in Northern Kurdistan and Turkey 

  Dozens of people get arrested every day as the Turkish regime's political genocide operations continue unabated.
• 350 ISIS members returned to Germany from Syria and Iraq 

  According to the German Federal Criminal Police Office, about 350 ISIS jihadists have returned to Germany from Syria and Iraq.
• HDP Muş co-chair taken into custody 

  The Turkish regime’s political genocide against the HDP continues unabated.
• Internationalists' call for 15 August: 'Smash Turkish Fascism' 

  The RiseUp4Rojava campaign announced that they "will go into permanent resistance by blocking, disrupting, occupying all the places of cooperating with Turkish fascism in our contexts.
• Peace in Kurdistan Campaign commemorates 15 August 1984 

  Peace in Kurdistan saluted "the resilience and courage of the Kurdish men and women who continue to resist oppression and tyranny in Turkey, in Rojava, in the Islamic Republic of Iran".