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• U.S. senators push back on Erdoğan at Washington meeting 

  Erdoğan's video which depicted members of the YPG and PKK "was unpersuasive," according to a source who was in the room.
• Demonstration in Bremen against Turkish war in Rojava 

  Kurdish parties and associations protested against the Turkish war in Rojava at the central station of Bremen and distributed information material about the war crimes of Turkey’s invasion troops.
• Families apply to visit Imralı 

  Families of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan and the other political prisoners in Imralı applied for a visit to the Prosecutor's Office.
• Demonstration against Turkish invasion of Rojava in Athens 

  Protests against Turkish genocidal campaign seeking to invade North and East Syria continue all around the world.
• Four co-mayors of the HDP detained in Mardin and Urfa – UPDATE 

  Political genocide operations against the Kurdish people and their elected representatives continue increasing.
• Zurich: Protest action in front of Rheinmetall 

  The Kurdish youth movement protested in front of the Rheinmetall armaments company's office in Zurich against arms deliveries to the Erdoğan regime and arms production in general.
• Three HDP co-mayors detained in Mardin 

  Political genocide operations against the Kurdish people and their elected representatives continue increasing.
• Solidarity conference at Lugano university 

  The auditorium of the Italian Switzerland University has hosted a conference to inform on the situation in Rojava since the Turkish attack on 9 October.
• Turkish invasion of Rojava protested at Paris university 

  Kurdish students protested the Turkish occupation of Northern and Eastern Syria with an action in solidarity with the peoples of Rojava at a Paris university.
• Four more demonstrators dead in Baghdad 

  Four more demonstrators were reportedly killed in the Iraqi capital Baghdad by security forces.
• Eight HDP executives taken into custody in Maraş 

  Turkish police has taken into custody 8 people in Elbistan, district of Maraş.
• Operation against HDP in Antep; offices raided, many detained 

  HDP offices were raided in Antep and its districts and many people were taken into custody.
• Trump and Erdoğan have nothing new to announce 

  After Wednesday’s visit of the Turkish President Erdoğan to US President Trump, both appeared before the press. But they did not have anything new to announce.
• Twin explosions at Turkish brigade in Urfa city center 

  The cause of the explosions is yet not known.
• Erdoğan-Trump meeting protested in Washington DC 

  Kurds and their friends protest the Erdoğan-Trump meeting in Washington DC.
• Turkish attacks against NE Syria protested in Basel and Bern 

  The invasion and genocide attacks carired out by the Turkish state and its mercenaries against Northern and Eastern Syria were protested in Basel and Bern, Switzerland.
• Turkish attacks protested in Brussels and Berlin 

  The invasion and genocide attacks of the Turkish state against North East Syria were protested in Brussels and Berlin.
• Death toll in Gaza raised to 22 

  Two days of Israeli airstrikes against Palestinian Islamic Jihad militants have killed 22 people in Gaza. It has been one of the heaviest fighting of the last months. Heavy bombardment and more than 250 rockets launched from the strip.
• ANCA urges Trump to bring up the killing of Armenian priest 

  The ANCA has called on President Trump to put the ISIS killing of the Armenian Catholic cleric Fr. Hovsep Petoian and his father on the agenda during the Erdogan meeting on Wednesday.
• Five areas in Hakkari forbidden entrance and exit 

  The governorship of Hakkari has banned entrance and exit to 5 districts declared special security zone for 5 days.
• Letter from Amed co-mayor to international public opinion 

  “As an elected mayor and politician in a prison, I call international public opinion, rights organizations and democratic dynamics to take concrete steps against the seizure of the election rights of Kurds in Turkey.”
• HDP Youth Council members tortured in custody 

  There are reports of torture and threats against 36 HDP activists arrested in Istanbul.
• Öcalan’s lawyers apply to visit Imralı 

  Abdullah Öcalan's lawyers have applied to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office to meet with their client.
• Turkish invasion of Rojava protested in Esslingen 

  Demonstrations against Turkish invasion of northern Syria continue all over Europe and the world.
• Protest in Marseille and Paris against Turkish invasion 

  Kurdish Revolutionary Youth Movement has recently launched the “Nehele” (Don’t allow) campaign against Turkish invasion in northern Syria.