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• HDP reacts to verdict on Kızıltepe JITEM case  

  HDP Law and Human Rights Commission Spokesperson and HDP Batman MP Ayşe Acar Başaran said the Kızıltepe JITEM case verdict is a scandal.
• MED-DER: Assimilation process in the new school year 

  Sedat Baran, Director of MED-DER, said that Turkish educational institutions were the center of assimilation and called for Kurds to adopt their mother tongue.
• Sinn Féin tables motion on dismissed HDP mayors 

  Sinn Féin deputy Seán Crowe tabled a question to Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade, Simon Coveney, about the dismissal of the HDP mayors of Amed, Van and Mardin.
• Day 22 of resistance for municipalities of Amed, Van and Mardin 

  Protests continue since their seizure of HDP-run Amed, Van and Mardin municipalities on August 19.
• Sweden’s Örebro Municipality against trustees 

  Wicklund emphasised the Left Party people’s commitment to democratic rights, human rights and freedom of expression.
• Youth stage Long March for Öcalan in Germany 

  The long march for Abdullah Öcalan continues in Bonn in spite of obstructions by the German police.
• Martyrs of Rojava remembered in Leipzig  

  In the scope of the action days of the Riseup4Rojava campaign, pictures of internationalists who died in Rojava were placarded in Leipzig.
• 7 HDP members dismissed in Muş 

  The Turkish regime’s mass dismissal practices against elected representatives of Kurdish citizens continue to grow.
• Swedish International Left Forum in solidarity with HDP 

  Swedish International Left Forum expressed their solidarity with the unlawfully dismissed mayors of Van, Mardin and Diyarbakır, and with the women reclaiming their will.
• Air strikes kill 18 Iranian-backed militias in Syria 

  Sites belonging to Iranian-backed militias in eastern Syria near the border with Iraq border were attacked late Sunday night, killing at least 18 people, according to the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights (SOHR).
• Wales in solidarity with Rojava 

  Wales stands up for Rojava.
• Turkish threats against Rojava land in Swedish parliament 

  The Swedish Left Party brought the threats issued by Turkey to invade Rojava to Parliament.
• Trade Union Congress demands Freedom for Öcalan 

  Solidarity with Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan was expressed by the Trade Unions Congress (TUC) held in Brighton.
• MSD workshop in Berlin ended with proposals for a new Syria 

  Party representatives and politicians came together in Berlin organised by the Syrian Democratic Council (MSD). The participants said that the workshops were important.
• New investigation launched against HDP executives in Amed 

  The Diyarbakır Chief Public Prosecutor's Office launched an investigation against HDP Diyarbakır provincial and district organizations.
• Nine people remanded in custody in Patnos 

  Nine of the 10 people taken into custody on 6 September in Patnos were remanded in custody.
• Russia and Ukraine exchange prisoners and open a new relation 

  The exchange, in the purest style of the Cold War, included 35 people from each side.
• Resistance in Van: Day 21 

  Local associations participated in the 21 day of resistance against the trustees in Van.
• Protest steps up against arms fair in London  

  The world's largest biennial weapons fair will take place in London on Tuesday. The International Defense and Security Equipment Fair has been protested for several weeks. On Saturday activists demanded to end selling arms to the Turkish state.
• Sudan tribes signed peace deal 

  Arab and Nubian tribes in Sudan’s Red Sea state signed a reconciliation deal on Sunday under pressure from the country’s most prominent military commander after clashes that triggered a state of emergency and left at least 16 dead last month.
• Amed protest continues on day 21 

  The Democracy Vigil in Amed has reached day 21. People are protesting the seizure of three HDP-run municipalities by the AKP.
• Mardin resistance: Day 21 

  People in Mardin have been resisting for 21 days against the appointment of trustees to their municipality as well as Amed and Van.
• Demonstration in Munich against war profiteers of Daimler 

  As part of the international action days against the war in Kurdistan, various groups demonstrated in Munich against Mercedes.
• Solidarity to Amed, Van and Mardin mayors from Gävle municipality 

  Gin Akgül Hajo, deputy mayor of the Swedish city of Gävle condemned the AKP government seizure of the HDP-run municipalities of Amed, Mardin and Van.
• HBDH militia claim responsibility for factory fires in Istanbul 

  HBDH militia claimed responsibility for the actions which targeted two factories in Istanbul.