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• Houses of Alevis marked in Istanbul: “You will die” 

  Attacks targeting Alevis have been increasingly witnessed in Turkey during recent weeks.
• Civil society campaign against the PKK ban in Saarbrucken 

  “People from civil society show their faces for civil rights and the lifting of the PKK ban”.
• Kurds and internationalists protest Turkey in London 

  Protests against Turkey’s genocidal war on the Kurdish people and their lands continue worldwide.
• 11 civilians from Afrin tortured and sentenced 

  Eleven civilians who were abducted from Afrin by Turkish-backed militias and then handed over to the Turkish secret service, tortured and then imprisoned in Turkey, have been sentenced to record prison terms.
• Vienna: As long as bombs fly, nobody flies here! 

  As part of the #Riseup4Rojava campaign, the Turkish Airlines counter at Vienna Airport has been blocked.
• Human chain for Rojava in Bremen - LineUp4Rojava 

  The association "Bremen for Rojava" has organized a human chain in solidarity with the resistance against the invasion in Northern and Eastern Syria. The action met with broad interest.
• KCDK-E calls on people to protest Erdoğan's presence in Geneva 

  The KCDK-E called on people to protest the presence of Turkish President Tayyip Erdoğan in Geneva at the 1st Global Refugee Forum.
• Turkish occupation of Rojava protested in Oslo 

  Kurds and their friends in Oslo protested the Turkish occupation of Northern and Eastern Syria.
• Syrian civil society must be defended* 

  Seth M. Holmes, a doctor and anthropologist specializing in migration, and Yugoslav sociologist Andrej Grubacic wrote a joint paper to defend the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria against Turkish occupation attacks.
• Amsterdam, Graz and St. Gallen marched for Rojava 

  Amsterdam, Graz and St. Gallen joined the protests against the Turkish occupation and in solidarity with Rojava.
• Demos in solidarity with Rojava in Sweden 

  Protests were organized in the Swedish capital Stockholm and the city of Malmö to express solidarity with the people of Rojava who resisted the Turkish invasion of their land.
• Erdogan to arrive in Geneva today for UN 1st Global Refugee Forum 

  Turkish President Erdogan, who is the target of the protests, is coming to Switzerland, allegedly to co-chair the 1st Global Refugee Form which will take place at the UN Geneva Office on 17 and 18 December.
• Marseille, Athens and Vienna in solidarity with Rojava 

  Marches and actions were held throughout Europe to protest the Turkish invasion of Rojava and in solidarity with the people of Northern and Eastern Syria.
• Demos for Rojava in Germany 

  Protests took place in many European countries against Turkish occupation attacks in Northern and Easter Syria. Today had been declared "action day" for Rojava and activists expressed solidarity with Rojava and demanded to put Erdoğan on trial.
• Police banned night in solidarity with Rojava in Berlin 

  A night of solidarity with Rojava was banned by police in Berlin.
• Free Engineers Architects City Planners Platform established 

  The Free Engineers Architects City Planners Platform was established in Ankara.
• Scottish First Minister: New independence referendum plan ready 

  Scottish First Minister Nicola Sturgeon to publish detailed plan for new independence referendum next week.
• 3 people given 4 life sentences for HDP rally bomb in 2015 

  The court sentenced the 4 defendants in the 5 June 2015 bomb attack in Amed to four life aggravated sentences.
• Friday for Rojava in Nancy 

  The invasion and genocide attacks of the Turkish state in North East Syria were protested in Nancy, France, like every Friday.
• Kurdish woman on trial in Stuttgart released after 17 months 

  Evrim A., a Kurdish activist on trial in Stuttgart, was released after 17 months of custody.
• Tebboune is Algeria's new president but is rejected by protesters 

  Abdelmadjid Tebboune was elected Algeria’s new president in a vote the authorities hope will end months of turmoil, but protesters who toppled his predecessor marched again on Friday, vowing their movement would not stop.
• Political genocide operations protested in Amed 

  Amed Labor Democracy Platform protested the political genocide operations in Mardin.
• First Kurdish candidate elected for the Labour Party 

  Kurdish and Alevi woman candidate elected at Westminster for the Labour Party.
• Conference in solidarity with Rojava in Australia 

  DTKF Co-chair pointed out that the Turkish state seeking to invade Rojava targeted the co-existence of peoples.
• Swedish Parliament to discuss the attacks on the HDP and Kurds 

  Amineh Kakabaveh, a member of the Swedish Left Party, has tabled a motion in the Swedish Parliament against the dismissal of HDP mayors in Northern Kurdistan.