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• Mandate of OHAL Review Commission extended for one more year 

  The mandate of the State of Emergency (OHAL) Operations Review Commission has been extended for one year.
• Deadlock remains in Iraq after Iran-backed candidate withdrew 

  The Iraqi parliament has passed a new election law, a key demand of protesters for fairer elections, but the political deadlock continues to delay the selection of an interim prime minister after Qusay al-Suhail withdrew his candidacy.
• Boat carrying refugees capsized in Lake Van, 7 dead 

  A boat carrying refugees sank in Lake Van; 7 refugees lost their lives.
• Police threatened lawyer in Amed 

  When trainee lawyer Ö.I. asked to see his client, Baver Yalçiner, who had been taken into custody in Amed and tortured, he was told by police 'I will smash your head on the window'.
• YPJ fighter commemorated in Cologne 

  Kurdish people in Europe remember their martyrs.
• Trial against imprisoned mayor of Amed begins 

  The trial against the arrested mayor Selçuk Mızraklı has started in Amed. He is accused of membership in a terrorist organization.
• Renewed arrests for "Las Tesis" performance in Ankara 

  All over the world women denounce violent criminals with the performance of the Chilean group Las Tesis. In Turkey this is a reason for police crackdown and arrests. In this scope, five students were arrested today in Ankara.
• Boycott campaign targets Italian industries investing in Turkey 

  Riseup4 Rojava launched a campaign to step up the boycott of industries investing in Turkey in the city of Florence in Italy.
• "Racism is racism everywhere" 

  Ecevit Emre, a member of the Left Party politician and member of the Faith Council of the Federation of Alevi Associations in Wiesloch, Baden-Württemberg, was attacked last Sunday.
• Not such a merry Christmas for 150 million kids living in streets 

  About 150 million children will spend the Christmas holidays in the streets
• Banksy's nativity scene evoking the Palestinian-Israeli conflict 

  British street artist Banksy did not miss the opportunity to underlined the plight of Palestinians.
• Christians in Istanbul prayed for peace 

  Christmas celebrations took place in Istanbul in Saint Antoine Church where people called for peace.
• DBP Mardin co-chair taken into custody 

  The Turkish regime’s political genocide operations against the Kurdish people and their elected representatives continue unabated.
• Turkey confiscates assets of Ragip Zarakolu in "KCK trial" 

  Turkey has confiscated part of the assets of the publisher Ragip Zarakolu. The 71-year-old, who lives in exile in Sweden, is accused of having supported the PKK by speaking at the DBP education academy.
• Lawyers apply to visit Öcalan in Imralı 

  Abdullah Öcalan's lawyers have applied to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office to meet with their client.
• Family of YPG English martyr writes to PM Johnson: Stop Turkey! 

  The Scurfield family was accompanied by Dirk Campbell, the father of YPG fighter Anna Campbell (Hêlîn Qzemeox), who fell martyr in March 2018.
• "Trustees are meant to erase the will of Kurds" 

  Responding to the replacement of HDP's legally and democratically mayors with trustees, Kurds living in Istanbul said that their will was ignored and pointed out that every day there was a new municipality seized.
• Women join the Freedom for Öcalan Vigil in Strasbourg 

  TJK-E women, who took over the Freedom for Öcalan Vigil in front of the Council of Europe, said that they will not accept Öcalan captivity, and called on European institutions to "stop playing three monkeys."
• United Labor Congress calls for general strike 

  Days before the announcement of the minimum wage, the United Workers' Assembly organized an action in Kadikoy and called for a general strike.
• HPG guerrillas commemorated in Bielefeld 

  A memorial event was held in Bielefeld for two HPG guerrillas who fell as martyrs.
• Revenge Unit targets police in central Van 

  Martyr Baran Dersim Revenge Unit targeted plainclothes police vehicles in Van province.
• Mustafa Nazif Aktaş commemorated in Paris 

  PKK member Mustafa Nazif Aktaş was murdered by Turkish racist chauvinist groups in Paris on 23 December 1985.
• Co-mayor of Kızıltepe transferred to Tarsus 

  Democratically elected political representatives of the Kurdish people are systematically imprisoned and transferred to jails far away from their hometowns and constituencies.
• Turkish diplomat’s car set on fire in Greece 

  The incident came at a time of escalated tensions between Athens and Ankara over drilling operations in the Mediterranean.
• Co-mayors of Sur remanded in custody 

  Sur co-mayors Filiz Buluttekin and Cemal Özdemir, who were brutally detained by the police on December 20, have been remanded in custody.