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• Swedish FM on Maxmur attack:International rules must be respected 

  Foreign Minister Linde expressed concerns over the deterioration of Turkey’s relations with Kurdish groups inside and outside the country.
• ISIS increases its attacks in Kirkuk and Diyala 

  ISIS mercenaries have escalated their attacks in recent weeks. The attacks reached the highest level in recent years this April.
• HBDH pays tribute to Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin Inan 

  HBDH paid tribute to Deniz Gezmiş Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin Inan on the 48th anniversary of their execution.
• HDP tells 18 ambassadors about the AKP's crimes 

  Özsoy said that the Law of Execution passed by the Assembly and excluding political prisoners is against both the Constitution and international agreements.
• Grup Yorum member Gökçek ends death fast - UPDATE 

  Grup Yorum has announced that Gökçek has ended his action.
• Turkey: Death toll from coronavirus rises to 3,461 

  Another 64 people have died of Covid-19 in Turkey where 1,614 more cases have been detected and 5,015 people have recovered during the past 24 hours.
• HDP MPs visit Ibrahim Gökçek on death fast for 322 days 

  HDP MPs visited the musician Ibrahim Gökçek who is on death fast in Istanbul and called on the public to show solidarity. The bassist of Grup Yorum has been refusing to eat for months.
• Pierre Granet, long time friend of the Kurds, dies in Toulouse 

  Granet will be laid to rest at 9.30 on Thursday.
• HDP commemorates victims of Dersim genocide 

  The state should apologize to the families of the people of Dersim on the basis of acknowledging the truth, said co-chair of the HDP Peoples and Beliefs Commission.
• Inflation rate in April stands at 10,94% 

  Consumer prices in Turkey went up 10.94% in April compared to the same month last year, the country's statistical authority, TÜİK, said today. 
• Forced to work despite the pandemic 

  Idris Tutum is working for the minimum wage in ISTOC's product warehouse. Like millions of workers he has to go to work despite the risk posed by the pandemic, or he would be faced with hunger.
• Yüksekdağ calls for strengthened unity and fraternity 

  Figen Yüksekdağ, a politician in prison and former co-chair of the HDP, calls for more responsibility in the corona crisis: "In these difficult times, solidarity and fraternity must be strengthened.”
• Kurds in Bremen protest Turkey’s attacks 

  Demonstrations in protest at the Turkish state’s genocidal attacks against the Kurdish people in three parts of Kurdistan continue despite the pandemic.
• Turkey: Death toll from coronavirus rises to 3,397 

  According to official figures, 3,397 people have died of Covid-19 in Turkey where 126,045 cases have been recorded in total.
• Four killed in ISIS attack on police station in Iraq 

  In the Iraqi Governorate of Diyala, four people have been killed in an attack by the ISIS on a police headquarters.
• Civil disobedience action by Kurdish youth in Drancy 

  Demonstrations against the Turkish state’s genocidal attacks against the Kurdish people continue all around Europe.
• Lack of transparency in Kurdish provinces over Coronavirus 

  There is no reliable information on the course of the coronavirus pandemic in the Kurdish regions of Turkey. Civil society organisations criticise the lack of transparency and demand clarification.
• Sweden extradites Kurdish activist to Turkey 

  In April, a 23-year-old Kurd from Sweden was extradited to Turkey and arrested. The Kurdish umbrella organisation NCDK-S condemns the extradition and accuses the Swedish government of disregarding its own laws.
• People stop destruction of olive groves in Ikizköy 

  The Turkish state continues its destruction of nature taking advantage of the coronavirus lockdown.
• WFP warns of famine due to coronavirus pandemic 

  WFP has alerted the UN Security Council about the possibility of a close great famine.
• Activists in Europe protest Turkish attacks on South Kurdistan 

  The Turkish state attack on Zinî Wertê and the embargo on Maxmur were protested by actions organised in many cities of Germany.
• Activist Sevim Dinçaslan passed away in Switzerland 

  Sevim Uçar Dinçaslan, one of the victims of the 12 September 1980 coup in Turkey, died in Switzerland, where she lived in exile.
• Turkey registers 1,983 new cases of coronavirus 

  Turkey registered 1,983 new cases of coronavirus on Saturday and 78 dead.
• Kurds in Stockholm protest Turkey attacks against South Kurdistan 

  The genocide operations of the Turkish state against South Kurdistan and the Kurdish people were protested by actions in Stockholm.
• ISIS attacked Iraqi army and Hashd al-Shaabi in Samara and Tikrit 

  ISIS mercenaries attacked the town and many villages of Samara and Tikrit last night. The mercenaries that captured some of the villages and towns they attacked inflicted heavy losses on the Iraqi army and Hashdi Sabhi.