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• Not all areas in the Spanish State will enter Phase 1 on Monday 

  Health Minister Salvador Illa announced in a press conference the areas in the Spanish state that will enter phase 1 on Monday, beginning the "transition to the new normality" after coronavirus.
• Women in Kassel protest Turkish attacks against Zinî Wertê 

  Kurds living in and around Kassel protested the Turkish state attack on Zinî Wertê in South Kurdistan.
• Memorial in Ulm for Grup Yorum member Ibrahim Gökçek 

  Grup Yorum member Ibrahim Gökçek, who died 2 days after ending his 323-day long death fast was commemorated in Ulm, Germany. Around 100 people attended the memorial.
• 50 more people died of coronavirus in Turkey 

  50 more people died of coronavirus in Turkey in the past 24 hours.
• Actvists in Stuttgart protest Turkish attacks on South Kurdistan 

  The attack carried out by the Turkish state in the region of Zinê Wertê was protested in Stuttgart.
• Work in Sur continues taking advantage of lockdown 

  The AKP-MHP government continues its demolition activities in a neighborhood that has been banned since 2015 in the historical Sur district.
• TMMOB says it will accompany residents of Sur in legal process 

  TMMOB City Planners Amed Branch said that the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization had offered families the possibility to buy a place where they were before in Sur, but this agreement was later ignored.
• Activists in Duisburg protest Turkish attacks against Zînî Wertê 

  Kurds in Duisburg protested the Turkish state attacks against Zînî Wertê and Maxmur Camp.
• Funeral of HPG guerrilla Yılmaz takes place in Amed 

  The washing of HPG guerrilla Musa Yılmaz's remains was prevented by the police. Despite the police threat, hundreds of people in Amed bid farewell to Yılmaz.
• DKP / Union issues a statement to pay tribute to May martyrs 

  The DKP / Union remembered the martyrs of the revolution and said: "We know how to break this wheel. We will adhere to the goals and ideals of the immortals and we will grow the united revolutionary movement."
• Sinn Fein joins 200 artists in saying 'no' to a return to normal 

  Sinn Fein has said that any economic strategy to recover from the economic crisis caused by COVID-19 must be based on a just transition towards a net zero carbon economy. The appeal follows a letter signed by 200 artists and intellectuals worldwide.
• Children of Fire claim responsibility for action in Kütahya 

  The Children of Fire set fire to a dormitory with a hostile policy towards Kurds in Kütahya.
• DKP/BÖG pays tribute revolutionary martyrs 

  DKP / BÖG commemorated revolutionary martyrs as part of the "Week of the Immortals". 
• Gökçek laid to rest amidst police violence 

  Grup Yorum member Ibrahim Gökçek was laid to rest in his hometown, Kayseri. The police blockade the cemetery, and attacked from place to place.
• HDP provides solidarity aid to 140 families in Ankara 

  HDP Ankara Provincial co-chair Vezir Coşkun Parlak said that in Ankara, 300 families were provided with basic food aid and 140 families were brought together by the 'Twin Family Campaign'.
• Authorities try to prevent participation at Gökçek's funeral 

  Lawyer Ayşegül Çağatay said: "They are trying to cause problems in the cemetery by using the lockdown as an excuse to for imposing limitation on the funeral of Ibrahim Gökçek who was brought to Kayseri."
• HDP condemns attacks at Ibrahim Gökçek's funeral 

  The HDP said that the AKP-MHP, which attacked Ibrahim Gökçek's funeral and the cemevi, committed yet another crime against humanity. 
• Governor says markets in Istanbul to open next Monday 

  The Governorship of Istanbul announced that markets will reopen after being closed due to the coronavirus pandemic.
• May 8 - A day to celebrate, remember and promise 

  The end of the Second World War in Europe marks the 75th anniversary. On the day of liberation from National Socialism the internationalist campaign RiseUp4Rojava calls for strengthening the anti-fascist struggle worldwide.
• Gökçek’s body taken to Kayseri by the police, not given to family 

  The body of Grup Yorum musician İbrahim Gökçek who died after a death fast has not been given to his family in his final journey to his hometown, Kayseri for burial.
• Turkey: Death toll from coronavirus rises to 3,689 

  With the death of 48 more people, death toll from coronavirus rose to 3,689 in Turkey where 135,569 cases have been recorded in total.
• Families and lawyers apply for a visit to Imralı 

  The lawyers and families of Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan and the other prisoners in Imralı made a new application to Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office to be granted a visit to their relatives.
• Two Turkish drones shot down in Libya 

  LNA troops have attacked positions of the Libyan Muslim Brotherhood government. Arms depots were destroyed and two Turkish drones shot down.
• Urgent appeal for ceasefire and release of political prisoners 

  International call for the implementation of the UN call for a global ceasefire, resolution of political conflicts through negotiations, release of political prisoners, end to military escalation, provision of humanitarian aid, protection of activists.
• Gökçek’s body abducted, lawyers detained at funeral 

  Following a crackdown on the mourners, Istanbul police entered the Cemevi and abducted the body of Grup Yorum member İbrahim Gökçek who died after months of death fast.