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• Dolzer: Turkey violates international law 

  A panel discussion was held in Nuremberg, Germany as part of the 10th Kurdish Culture Days. Hamburg State MP Martin Dolzer spoke at the discussion and said a stand must be taken against the Turkish state that has been violating international law.
• Welsh socialists send postcards to death fast activists 

  Welsh socialists sent solidarity postcards to the 30 prisoners who took part in the death fast resistance to end the isolation against Ocalan.
• CDU greenlights shifting Tornados to Rojava  

  Prominent figure in Chancellor Merkel's CDU, Norbert Rottgen spoke about the "safe zone" Germany wants to support in Rojava and said, "Germany must take responsibility in protecting the Kurds and other people's in the region."
• Sinn Féin: Stop delaying implementation of Irish Language Act 

  The British and Irish government must end the delay in implementing an Irish Language Act which was agreed at St Andrew’s over 13 years ago, Sinn Féin Michelle O’Neill said. 
• Prisoners who were on hunger strike in Van not medically treated 

  The families of prisoners who were on death fast in Van Prison denounced that they are not being properly treated. 
• Signature campaign demanding freedom for Veli Encu 

  A campaign to demand freedom for Veli Encu was launched by relatives and friends.
• Hundreds in Istanbul to mark anniversary of Gezi Park Resistance 

  The demonstrations in 2013 started with a small group of environmentalists opposed to the cutting down of trees in a green area near Taksim Square.
• Corpse of Italian internationalist Orsetti reached Rome 

  Orsetti fell martyr in the battle against DAESH mercenaries in Deir ez-Zor on 18 March 2019.
• Hunger strikers Bagdur and Kobane: The struggle isn't over 

  Omer Bagdur and Cemal Kobane who were on hunger strikes in Berlin against the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Ocalan have returned to Kassel following 5 days of medical treatments and were greeted with enthusiasm in the Kurdish ass
• Prisoners’ mothers: Our children are not treated 

  Mothers of political prisoners who ended their hunger strikes and death fasts protested the refusal of treatment for their children in front of the Istanbul Provincial Health Directorate.
• ISIS sets fields on fire in Kirkuk 

  ISIS gangs started to set the villagers’ fields on fire in Kirkuk.
• Kirkuk City Council: Terrorist attacks aim for fitna 

  The Kirkuk City Council issued a written statement on the series of bomb attacks in the city that took place Thursday night and said the attacks aim to create fitna among the peoples. Sources close to the KDP told Kurds to leave the city.
• AKP government launches “Dersim” investigation 

  The Interior Ministry launched an investigation against the name change in Dersim. Dersim residents are taking to the streets to defend the ruling.
• Turkish economy continues to shrink 

  Turkish economy shrunk by 2.6% in the first quarter.
• Prisoners are refused treatment at Kurkculer Prison 

  Prisoners who ended their hunger strike in the Kurkculer Type F Closed Prison are being refused treatment. Prisoner Inan Akin said, “We are not receiving treatment, they don’t give us our medicine, we couldn’t drink the soup, it was like colored water."
• Ban on demonstrations in Van reached day 921 

  The three successive governors have all renewed the ban which has now been in place for 921 days.
• Remains of international fighter Orsetti arrive today in Rome 

  Today the remains of international fighter Lorenzo Orsetti, will arrive in Rome.
• FARC deputy Santrich free at last 

  FARC former commander Jesus Santrich was released on Thursday after a last attempt by the government to stop him walking free.
• Long march in Italy reached Modena 

  The long march by Kurdish activists in Italy set off from Milan on 20 May.
• Öcalan's lawyers applied to visit their client 

  All applications submitted by lawyers from 27 July 2011 until 2 May 2019 were rejected for arbitrary reasons.
• Six explosion rocked Kirkuk, casualties reported 

  Dead and wounded in a series of explosions in the Iraqi oil city of Kirkuk.
• HDP protests usurpation of people's will by the AKP 

  Selahattin Aslan, co-spokesperson of the Democratic Local Government Council of HDP said the usurpation of municipalities and of the popular will of the people continue after the elections. 
• HDP: Stop the illegal military operation in South Kurdistan 

  The HDP called on the AKP-MHP government to stop the illegal military operations in South Kurdistan.
• Kerem Solhan welcomed back in Marseille 

  Kerem Solhan, one of the 14 activists who went on hunger strike in Strasbourg demanding the end of isolation against Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan, was met by a huge crowd in Marseille.
• Colombia's Supreme Court ordered immediate release of Santrich 

  Colombia’s Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered the immediate release of former FARC commander Jesus Santrich.