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• TurkStat can't hide increase in inflation rate 

  TurkStat announced in January that the price of 268 items out of 418 increased. Annual inflation increased by 1.35 percent to 12.15.
• HDP condemns ISIS attack against Maxmur 

  "This attack on Maxmur is a new warning that the ISIS threat is still alive," said the HDP in a statement regarding ISIS attack against Maxmur Camp.
• Sinn Féin urges Unionists to respect Stormont House Agreement 

  Sinn Féin Leas Uachtarán Michelle O’Neill has said the Stormont House Agreement must be implemented in full. 
• Travelogue from Rojava in Heilbronn 

  In the Kurdish cultural association in Heilbronn, an activist reported on his trip to Northern Syria and the work of the internationalist community in Rojava.
• Marches in Berlin and Hannover continue on day 2 

  Kurds in Europe stage long marches in protest at the February 15 international conspiracy against Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan and the isolation imposed on him by the Turkish state.
• Labor Peace and Democracy Forces support metal workers' strike 

  Istanbul Labo Peace and Democracy Forces supported metal workers who will go on strike on 5 February.
• German groups claim the action against ThyssenKrupp 

  German radical leftist groups have claimed responsibility for burning cars belonging to German iron-steel giant ThyssenKrupp. The groups said that ThyssenKrupp produces military equipment for the Turkish army used in the Rojava invasion.
• Coronavirus claims first death outside China 

  The death toll in China rose to at least 304.
• Scots ask the EU to "leave a light on for Scotland" after Brexit 

  Thousands of Scottish people took to the streets at the weekend to ask the European Union (EU) to "Leave a Light on for Scotland" because they want to stay within the European integration agreement.
• Sinn Féin: Talks about a united Ireland need to begin 

  Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald said preparations for constitutional change on the island "needed to start". She spoke at a protest against Brexit on the Irish border on the day Britain leaves the EU, taking the northeast of Ireland with it.
• Erdoğan pardons a perpetrator of Sivas massacre 

  35 people, mostly of Alevi faith, died in the hotel Madımak in Sivas in an arson attack by an Islamist-nationalist mob in 1993. Now one of the people behind it was pardoned by Erdoğan.
• Long march for Öcalan in Hamburg continues 

  The march is staged to protest the international conspiracy against Abdullah Öcalan and Turkish invasion of northern Syria.
• HDP youth activist detained in Amed 

  In Amed, a member of the HDP Youth Council has been detained during a house raid. Since the beginning of November, Turkish security authorities have been on a witch-hunt against opposition youth activists.
• Iraqi President names new Prime Minister 

  The former communications minister has been named as the prime minister of Iraq.
• Memorial for YPG martyr in Sydney 

  YPG fighter Zerdeşt Efrîn, who fell in Rojava in 2018, has been commemorated in Sydney.
• Kurdish activists march in Lower Saxony and Berlin for Öcalan 

  Kurds in Europe stage long marches in protest at the February 15 international conspiracy against Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan and the isolation imposed on him by the Turkish state.
• Families' request to visit Imrali rejected  

  The application filed by families of Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan and other prisoner families to visit their relatives in Imralı was rejected once again.
• Actions in 8 Swedish cities to boycot holidaying in Turkey 

  Turkish tourism was boycotted in 8 cities of Sweden to protest the occupation of Rojava. 
• Cologne pays tribute to Nurcan Bakır  

  Bakır was caught wounded, and she was tortured. But she never spoke during the interrogation. She then went on a death fast.
• Activists in Nancy protest Turkish invasion of Rojava 

  Actions continue around Europe to protest the Turkish state invasion attacks on Rojava. Since 9 October 2019, when the occupation began, Kurds and their friends have been protested in Nancy, France, on a weekly basis.
• Two people demanding freedom for Öcalan to be retried 

  Constitutional Court said two defendants accused of distributing leaflets containing Öcalan's photographs, within the scope of the campaign demanding his freedom, are to be retried as their freedom of thought and expression rights were violated.
• HDP former MP Baydemir: Time for national unity 

  Speaking at a night in solidarity with Heyva-Sor, HDP former MP Osman Baydemir said: "There is no other way than national unity in front of Kurdish."
• FARC denounces plan to exterminate former guerrillas in Ituango 

  The FARC (Colombian Alternative Revolutionary People) party said that the execution of an extermination plan against former guerrilla fighters is underway in the Ituango Municipality, in Antioquia.
• Snow falls on the victims of the earthquake in Elazığ 

  Snow started to fall in the city center of Elazığ, eight days after the 6.8 magnitude earthquake suffered by the city.
• Four people including a DBP politician detained in Ankara 

  The political genocide operations of the Turkish regime continue increasingly.