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• Kurdish institutions take over Vigil for Öcalan in Strasbourg 

  The Freedom for Öcalan Vigil in front of the Council of Europe celebrates its 8th anniversary this week. The action continues with the participation of Kurdish institution representatives in Europe.
• FEDA condemns attack on Alevi graves in Ludwigsburg 

  The Democratic Alevi Federation (FEDA) said: “Those who come to spread fear should know that we won’t allow anyone to insult our values.”
• Patriarch Sako condemns Turkish attacks on South Kurdistan 

  The Turkish state's air and land attacks on South Kurdistan should end immediately, said Louis Raphael Sako, the Patriarch of the Babylonian Chaldeans, the highest religious leader of all the Chaldeans living in the world.
• Activists in Helsinki protest Turkish attacks 

  The Turkish state's attacks against South Kurdistan were protested in Helsinki.
• New coronavirus outbreaks force 3 Spanish areas to step back 

  The "new normality" lasted just one day for three small provinces in the region of Aragon, in the Spanish state. 
• Police attack the protest march of lawyers in Ankara 

  The march of the bar associations, which was stopped outside Ankara, was later attacked by the police. The co-chairwoman of the lawyers' association ÖHD was pushed to the ground and then kicked.
• Body of HPG guerrilla martyred in Dersim given to family 

  The body of a fallen guerrilla fighter was handed over to family.
• Former co-mayor of Nusaybin sentenced to 16 years in prison 

  Former co-mayor of Mardin’s Nusaybin district, Sara Kaya, who has been jailed since January 2017, has been sentenced to 16 years in prison.
• HBDH hits Turkish military vehicle in Antep: 4 killed, 5 wounded 

  The left-wing guerrilla alliance HBDH has claimed responsibility for an attack on a Turkish military vehicle in the province of Antep. Four soldiers were killed and five others were seriously injured.
• Paramilitaries kill 138th social leader in Colombia 

  Another social leader was murdered in Colombia in the southwestern department of Cauca, marking the 138th death in 2020 alone according to the Institute for Development and Peace.
• Bolivia's coup president says elections on 6 September 

  Bolivia’s de facto President Jeanine Añez said that she will enact the Elections Law, to be held on 6 September without further delay.
• Pîro Dersim: Fascism will go with resistance, not elections 

  PKK Prison Committee Member Pîro Dersim assessed in a special program of Radio Dengê Welat the current situation in the prisons and in the country and analysed what kind of struggle should be undertaken to counter the AKP-MHP fascist attacks.
• Children of Fire carry out actions in Mersin and Balıkesir 

  The Children of Fire Initiative said in a written statement that they set fire on two more places in Mersin and Balıkesir.
• Police halt Defense March by bar associations in Eskişehir 

  The Judicial March launched by dozens of bar associations towards Ankara, was blocked by the police at the entrance of the Eskişehir road. The police said they would not allow the march.
• Seven people detained including co-mayor of Ikiköprü Hatice Taş 

  Seven people, including the co-mayor of Ikiköprü Municipality Municipality Hatice Taş, were detained during the political genocide operation in Batman.
• Demo in Saarbrücken against Turkey’s attacks on the Kurds 

  Turkish annihilation campaign against Kurds protested in Saarbrücken.
• Kurds and Australians protest Turkey’s attacks in Sydney 

  Protests against the Turkish state's annihilation campaign against the Kurdish people continue all around the world.
• Kurds march to the Turkish Consulate in Toronto 

  Demonstrations against Turkey’s brutal war against the Kurdish people continue all around the world.
• Bar associations march to Ankara 

  The government of the Turkish president Erdoğan wants to bring the uncomfortable bar associations under state control with a change in the law. Dozens of associations are protesting against this with a march to the capital.
• Call for a no-fly zone over Shengal 

  Civil society and women's organisations from Iraq are calling on the Iraqi government and the United Nations to establish a no-fly zone for Turkey over Shengal.
• Kurds and their friends take to the streets in Copenhagen 

  Kurds and their friends took to the streets in Copenhagen to protest the Turkish state's genocide and occupation attacks.
• Thousands gather in Basel to protest Turkish attacks 

  The attacks and massacres carried out by the Turkish state in South Kurdistan were protested in Basel, Switzerland.
• Activists in Paris and Marseille protest the Turkish attacks 

  The Turkish state's invasion attacks against South Kurdistan were protested in Paris and Marseille.
• Kurds protest Turkey’s attacks on Kurdistan across Germany 

  Demonstrations in protest at the Turkish regime’s genocidal attacks against the Kurdish people in various parts of Kurdistan continue all around the world.
• HDP’s Democracy March reaches Ankara 

  Participants of the “march for democracy against the political coup” have reached their final destination.