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• Family of Mam Zeki Shengali visited hunger strikers in Strasbourg 

  “What we ask from the European states is to support our legitimate demand to end isolation.”
• KCK celebrates 15 May, Kurdish Language Day 

  “Beginning with prisons and all places in the world where the hunger strike resistance is being carried out, we are welcoming Kurdish Language Day in all four parts of Kurdistan," said the KCK Education Committee.
• AKP’s ‘social media’ terror: 13 detained in Viranşehir 

  The Turkish regime’s repressive measures against the freedom of expression continue.
• Mothers in Amed: We support our children’s resistance 

  The prisoners’ mothers are on day 14 of their protest. The families continue their protest despite the police blockade and attacks and say they support their children’s resistance.
• Mothers protesting in Parliament want to meet the Minister 

  Mothers of prisoners on hunger strikes launched a sit-in in the Parliament. HDP Deputy Group Chairperson Fatma Kurtulan announced that the mothers want to meet with the Minister of Justice regarding the isolation.
• Mothers in white headscarves hold sit-in at Parliament 

  Mothers of prisoners on hunger strikes against the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan organized a sit-in in the Parliament to meet with the Ministry of Justice.
• Gangs in Idlib: Erdogan sold us out 

  The gangs in Idlib allied to Turkey are starting to confess to their relationship with Erdogan and that Erdogan has “sold them out”.
• Leyla Güven reached day 188 of hunger strike 

  HDP Hakkari MP and DTK co-chair Leyla Güven has reached day 188 of her hunger strike demanding the end of isolation against Abdullah Öcalan.
• Resistance makes you free 

  Kardo Bokani and Muhamed Ghadari are two Kurdish activists from Rojhilat who are on day 149 of hunger strike in Strasbourg.
• Week 360 in the Freedom for Öcalan Vigil in Strasbourg 

  Week 360 for the Freedom for  Abdullah Öcalan in front of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg.
• Activists protested Amnesty International in Catalonia 

  Azadi Plataforma protested the decision by Amnesty International in London to call the police to force out of its premised Kurdish activists.
• Solidarity action with the hunger strike in Borlänge 

  A tent in solidarity with the hunger strike and death fast resistance demanding the end of isolation against Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan was opened in Borlänge, in Sweden.
• Mothers: Today is us, tomorrow it could be you. Speak out now! 

  Mothers of the prisoners on hunger strike promoted a sit-in in Amed and in Lice.
• Sinn Féin: Agreement in North of Ireland talks possible 

  "The British government has a decisive and central role in facilitating agreement, guaranteeing the agreements and safeguarding the rights and equality of all citizens. We agreed to speak again as the talks process develops.” 
• Kurdish People's Assembly in Scotland went to Congress 

  The Congress voted the new executive board. 
• Three-day solidarity hunger strike in Lucerne 

  A group of Kurds went on a three-day hunger strike in the Swiss city of Lucerne. 
• KCDK-E called on Kurds to join Dersim Festival 

  KCDK-E called on all Kurds to join the Dersim Festival with the spirit of resistance against isolation.
• Mothers detained in Bakırköy referred to court 

  Mothers of prisoners who were taken into custody during the police crackdown in front of Bakırköy Women’s Closed Prison, have been referred to court.
• Clashes intensify in Idlib 

  Russian jets continue to bomb the so-called “weapon free zones” of Idlib and Hama as the clashes between the Syrian regime and Turkish gangs rage on unabated on day 13.
• Families resist in Gebze and Bakirkoy 

  Turkish state forces continue repressive measures against families of prisoners on hunger strike and death fast against the isolation of Abdullah Ocalan.
• France: We are looking into a mechanism to try ISIS members 

  The Northern and Eastern Syrian Autonomous Administration had proposed an international court to be formed to put the gang members on trial in the region.
• “Fascist states have the same system” 

  A memorial was held for Giorgiana Masi, who had been murdered by the police in Rome in 1977.
• Seehofer: We won’t take back ISIS members en masse 

  Interior Minister Seehofer spoke about the German citizen ISIS members captured by the YPG and said, “We will take them back after investigating them one by one and ascertaining their identity, but I am against bringing them back en masse.”
• Germany to instate “mosque tax” against Erdogan threat 

  Germany is discussing whether to instate a “mosque tax” to break the influence of Salafist groups and foreign countries like Turkey.
• Families of martyrs: We stand by the hunger strike resistance 

  PYD's Abdulaziz Abdurrahman recalled that hunger strikes are an effective weapon against the cruelty of the enemy and that this weapon has been used many times throughout Kurdish history.