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• Puerto Rico governor resigned following mass protests 

  Popular mobilization achieved the resignation of the Governor of Puerto Rico.
• HDP MP Sarısaç: AKP is attacking Kurds’ values 

  HDP MP Murat Sarısaç protested the AKP banning Kurdish concerts in Van and said: “They are attacking the Kurds’ values, they fear the people coming together.”
• Action against Police Headquarters in Amed 

  The bombs hit the Police Directorate causing material damage to the building and one armored police vehicle.
• Activists in Hasankeyf: Authorities didn't work to put out fire 

  The people of Hasankeyf said that no such fire had been experienced for many years.
• Twelve HDP members taken into custody in Izmir 

  Twelve HDP members have been taken into custody in Menemen and Buca, in the province of Izmir for allegedly making "propaganda for an illegal organization".
• Borders banned only for Kurds 

  Border trade was banned for Kurdish people, while the increased flow of refugees attracts attention as it appears more and more as a state policy.
• ISIS attacks village in Daquq,Iraqi police shoot civilian vehicle 

  4 civilians were wounded when ISIS gangs attacked a village in Daquq. A vehicle going to Daquq was hit by fire shot by Iraqi federal police, killing 9 members of the family.
• Pedro Sánchez will face the second vote today in Spanish Congress 

  Acting Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez will face the second vote today in Congress to be confirmed in office.
• MSD preparing workshops in Germany and Scandinavian countries 

  The Syrian Democratic Council is preparing for new workshops in Germany and Scandinavia countries with its representatives abroad.
• US: Committed to accelerated and concrete progress on the Manbij  

  Ambassador Jeffrey led a U.S. interagency delegation and joined Turkish counterparts for a High Level Working Group meeting on Syria, the fifth meeting of the HLWG since it was formed last summer. 
• Mass grave with 70 bodies opened in Iraq 

  Efforts to open a mass grave in Iraq’s Samawah province have started. There are 70 bodies in the grave, including women and children.
• Road to and from Maxmur camp still closed 

  After the attack in a restaurant in Hewlêr targeting Turkish consulate employees which left three people dead, the KDP closed all ways in and out to Maxmur Camp.
• Co-mayors of Nusaybin and Bismil taken into custody 

  The Turkish regime continues political genocide operations against the Kurdish people.
• Activists in Freiburg protest Turkish attacks 

  Kurds in Europe have been taking to the streets to protest the Turkish regime's genocidal attacks against the Kurdish people and their lands.
• Turkish government sends Syrian refugees to Afrin 

  On 22 July the Governorate of Istanbul gave a deadline of 20 August for Syrians who did not register in the city to leave Istanbul.
• Curfew declared in 15 villages and hamlets around Bitlis 

  Yet another military operation and curfew in northern Kurdistan.
• Lawyers applied to visit Öcalan 

  Lawyers of the Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan applied to the Bursa Chief Public Prosecutor's Office to meet with their client.
• Boris Johnson to be appointed UK Prime Minister today 

  Boris Johnson has won a final Tory leadership runoff, defeating his opponent Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt with the support of more than two in three of the Conservative Party membership.
• Yazidi women take over Freedom for Öcalan Vigil  

  The Freedom Vigil organized in Strasbourg to demand freedom for Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan, has been taken over by Yazidi women on its 370th week.
• Death toll rises to 70 in Idlib and Aleppo 

  The death toll in the bombings in Idlib and Aleppo has risen to 70.
• Young Saharawi killed by Moroccan police at football celebration 

  Saharawi celebrating Algeria football team victory in the Africa Cup killed and wounded by Moroccan police.
• Citizens in New Zealand hand over weapons to government 

  Thousands of New Zealanders hand over their weapons of war to the police.
• Eight taken into custody in simultaneous raids in Kars 

  Güldane Kılıç, chair of the Human Rights Association Kars branch and 7 HDP executives were taken into custody.
• Wave of jihadist attacks hit Somalia  

  An explosion of a car bomb on the road to the Somali capital airport, Mogadishu, on Sunday was the latests in a wave of jihadist attacks.
• Amed rally: The struggle continues in 4 parts of Kurdistan! 

  Speaking at the rally, DTK co-chair and HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven said: "We will fight against what is being done in the four parts of Kurdistan. We will continue our resistance."