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• Kurdish hunger striker hospitalized and refused treatment 

  Health conditions of the Kurdish activists on hunger strike against the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan are worsening.
• Body of prisoner Sağlam who ended her life not given to family 

  The Turkish regime denies families the dead bodies of their children who ended their life in prison to protest the isolation imposed on Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• 38 people detained in the Newroz celebration in Istanbul 

  Turkish state forces continue arresting Kurds.
• KCDK-E called on people to join actions in front of the EP 

  KCDK-E called on everyone to join the sit-it action organised from 25 to 29 March in front of the European Parliament (Rue Lucien Febvre, 67000 Strasbourg).
• Visitors expressed their solidarity to hunger strikers in London 

  Activists said that this year's Newroz celebrations in Kurdistan have sent the colonialists a great message and the same message should be repeated in Europe with the same power and determination.
• Newroz fire lit in Rome 

  This year’s celebration was considered the most spectacular in years in Rome.
• Thousands lit the Newroz fire in Istanbul 

  People of all ages are joining the rally, carrying HDP flags and photos of Abdullah Öcalan, Leyla Güven and the other hunger strikers.
• Hunger strike in Strasbourg: Day 98 

  Despite the worsening of their health conditions, the activists reiterate their determination in continuing their action until isolation is lifted.
• Leyla Güven calls for an end to sacrifice actions 

  "For the first time in our history, thousands of people resist indefinitely to remove isolation. No one can say that these actions will not yield results. Will definitely get results, will surely win."
• Another HDP building attacked in western Turkey 

  Yet another attack against the HDP.
• HDP: We'll continue our solidarity with the honorable resistance 

  “We condemn the manner of rule that ignores the deaths instead of stopping them.”
• European Parliament Candidate: Turkey's opposition must unite 

  İncir said she would counter racism and those forces against migrants, and would defend democracy and human rights as well raise the Kurdish issue.
• Temelli: We are promoting social and radical democracy 

  The HDP co-chair talked about the project for local government proposed by his party.
• Strasbourg hunger strikers: You cannot darken the sun 

  “Newroz 2019 was celebrated by millions of people. Our people have made it clear that we will defeat the occupation and fascist plans of the AKP-MHP coalition.”
• Another prisoner ends her life to protest the isolation of Öcalan 

  More prisoners are ending their life to protest the isolation imposed on Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Eight dead in Colombia’s social strike 

  An attack against the Colombian indigenous people killed 8 and wounded 4 as military discovered to have infiltrated the indigenous guards.
• One million people joined anti-Brexit march in London 

  One million people marched on Westminster on Saturday saying loud and clear: 'Put it to the People’.
• Newroz celebrated at crowded festival in Frankfurt 

  Newroz in Frankfurt was dedicated to Uğur Şakar who set himself on fire on February 20 in the city of Krefeld and died on Friday.
• Body of Beçet who ended her life against isolation abducted 

  The body of political prisoner Ayten Beçer, who ended her life to protest against the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan, was transferred to Antep without her family's knowledge.
• Prisoner on hunger strike in Gebze: This is a matter of honor 

  Today is the 85th day of our action. I didn't mention our health condition. I have consciously avoided to mention our health condition because it is linked to developments. Let us meet in a free country, where we can freely talk, with hope and resistance…
• Armenian Embassy in France salutes “resisting Kurdish people” 

  Firat spoke about a wide array of topics like Democratic Confederalism and Rojava and said Kurds, along with other peoples, have been fighting a difficult war to create conditions to live together under the framework of Democratic Confederalism.
• German police obstruct people from joining Newroz in Frankfurt 

  German police turned away a bus with dozens of people who were travelling to attend the Newroz march in Frankfurt.
• Newroz march in Frankfurt 

  The marchers protested the isolation imposed upon Kurdish Peoples’ Leader Abdullah Ocalan and the silence of Western governments, and drew attention to the hunger strikes.
• French President Macron salutes SDF’s victory 

  French President Emmanuel Macron saluted the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) who defeated ISIS.
• Homes of Kurds and Alevis marked in İzmir 

  Red crosses were painted on the doors of 6 homes where Kurdish and Alevi families live in the Yamanlar neighborhood of Izmir’s Karsiyaka district.