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• End isolation, say activists in Paris 

  The crowd moved from Republique Square to Bastille Square where Kurdish politician Fırat Varto saluted the resistance led by Leyla Güven and other hunger strikers.
• Trade unions call on labour movement to back Irish reunification 

  The declaration said it is “critically important that the interests of workers and working families are put at the heart of a new Ireland, which should be a united Ireland".
• Victory for Pat Finucane’s family 

  The ruling has entirely vindicated the long justice campaign by the Finucane family and their rejection of the 2012 de Silva review.
• Protest to end isolation in Stockholm 

  Riazat explain why they decided to go on hunger strike to respond to the silence of the European institutions.
• European doctors: CPT and CoE should act for hunger strikers 

  "Mr. Abdullah Öcalan is the only politician who can put the Kurdish problem back on the solution track. And this role of Öcalan is denied in Europe."
• HDP's Buldan: People will reclaim what is theirs on 31 March 

  "Many of our friends are on hunger strike. They have only one request. Talk to Mr. Öcalan. Such a legitimate demand is ignored. We would like to see family members and lawyers visiting  Mr. Öcalan as soon as possible, so that our friends on hunger strike"
• Geneva councillor expressed solidarity with hunger strikers 

  “I hereby express my solidarity with the hunger strike activists and want them to know that we stand beside them. Solidarity must be spread further.”
• TEV-ÇAND and GOVEND artists with Strasbourg resistance 

  TEV-ÇAND and GOVEND artists visited the 14 hunger strikers in Strasbourg.
• Left Party MP on hunger strike in Swedish Parliament 

  Riazat and Alp held a press conference in Parliament before starting their hunger strike. Underlining the silence of the world over what is going on in Turkey, Riazat and Alp said they were going on a solidarity hunger strike to break this silence.
• Tens of thousands rally for Öcalan in Cologne 

  “We believe that this protest will lead to success. We are ready for any and all actions to make sure this protest succeeds. We will prevail.”
• Hunger strike against isolation in Pencewin 

  A man named Yunus Umer from Pencewin announced his hunger strike protesting the Imrali isolation.
• Thousands gather in Cologne: Hunger striker Tuzak detained 

  Thousands of people gathered in Cologne, Germany to protest the isolation and salute the hunger strikers.
• Canadian MP to take hunger strikes to the parliament 

  Canadian MP Ziad Aboultaif telephoned Yusuf Iba, who has been on an indefinite nonalternating hunger strike for 49 days in Toronto, Canada, and asked about his health and his protest. Aboultaif said he will take the matter to the parliament.
• Mogherini: Steps should be taken for Leyla Guven 

  High Representative of the European Union for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini responded to Sinn Féin MEP Martina Anderson’s letter about Leyla Guven.
• Solidarity actions with the hunger strikers in Europe  

  Every day several demonstrations and actions are being organised all over Europe in solidarity with the hunger strikers.
• PYD Athens representative visited hunger strikers in Strasbourg 

  PYD Athens representative consultant, lawyer Stratos Nikoloudis stressed that hunger strike actions exposed the silence of the European countries and that silence is the expression of the complicity in the concept of war against Kurds.
• Hunger strike in front of the UN office in Geneva continues 

  Like hundreds of activists around the world, Koçak is demanding the end of the absolute isolation of Abdullah Öcalan.
• International Peace Delegation to Imrali report on its mission 

  The international Peace Delegation went to Turkey and Kurdistan from 11 to 16 February.
• UN call for the Hol Camp in Heseke 

  Since December 2018, approximately 45,000 people have fled the Hajin and Al-Baghouz areas of Deir-ez-Zor and arrived at Al-Hol camp.
• "We are on hunger strike for we love life enough to die for it" 

  Şiş said: “Maybe we will die at the end of this action, but what we really need to ask is if it is really a free and equal life the one we are living.”
• HDP’s Temelli: Let’s give voice to Leyla Güven 

  HDP co-chair, Sezai Temelli, was welcomed by a convoy of dozens of vehicles. He was met by Kars co-mayoral candidates Ayhan Bilgen and Şevin Alaca.
• Hunger strike in Duisburg on day 48 

  Mustafa Tuzak has been on hunger strike in Duisburg for 48 days.
• Brussels Parliamentary President’s statement on hunger strikes 

  Brussels Francophone Parliamentary President Julie De Groote said the hunger strikes for Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan should become collective memory.
• Swedish MP to go on solidarity hunger strike against isolation 

  Left Party MP Daniel Riazat will go on a hunger strike in the Swedish Parliament on Friday to show solidarity with Leyla Guven and political prisoners, who continue their hunger strikes demanding an end to the isolation against Ocalan. 
• Car bomb attack in Mosul   

  Local authorities believe ISIS is responsible for the attack in which at least one person died and 13 others were wounded.