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• Protest against isolation in front of the European Parliament 

  Isolation against Öcalan has been increased even further since 24 April 2015, recalled the women, noting that DTK co-chair and HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven and over 300 political prisoners are on hunger strike to demand the end of isolation.
• Strasbourg hunger strike reached day 60 

  The indefinite hunger strike launched in Strasbourg demanding the end of isolation against Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan has reached day 60.
• 16 people detained in Adana 

  The Turkish regime’s political genocide operations against the Kurdish population continue unabated.
• Kurdish political prisoner writes to lawyer Margaret Owen 

  Hunger striker Sedat Alciçek has been in prison for 10 years and is now in F Type Closed prison in Kirikkale. He wrote to British lawyer Margaret Owen to thank her for her recent visit to Amed, his hometown.
• MEPs visited Kurdish hunger strikers in Strasbourg 

  Irish MP and former political prisoner Martina Anderson and British Labour Party MP, Julie Ward visited the Kurdish hunger strikers in the French city of Strasbourg.
• Internationalist Long March for Ocalan reached Metz 

  The internationalists stated that the achievements reached in Rojava thanks to Öcalan's philosophy are actually for the entire humanity.
• Three-day march in Greece to protest the international conspiracy 

  “Time has come, rise up, break the isolation, free leader Apo,” is the main motto of the march in which hundreds are taking part.
• Leyla Guven refused treatment, continues her fast at home 

  After refusing to receive treatment at hospital, Leyla Guven has been taken back to her home.
• Internationalists: Freedom for Öcalan is our struggle 

  The Luxembourg branch of the march includes about 100 internationalists from Germany, Sweden, Finland, Spain, Italy, Norway, the Netherlands and many more.
• KCDK-E issues warning: AKP is looking for provocation in Europe 

  In their warning, the KCDK-E said: “The Turkish state has taken action to reverse the sympathy the Kurdish freedom movement has won in the eyes of the public through dirty provocative actions in Europe.”
• Long March activists stopped at French border 

  After being attacked by the German police in Karlsruhe, Long March activists who started from Mannheim were stopped at the French border.
• Leyla Guven refuses treatment 

  DTK Co-chair and HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Guven, who has been on a hunger strike for 98 days demanding an end to the isolation imposed upon Ocalan, briefly lost consciousness and was hospitalized. Guven has refused treatment.
• Leyla Guven hospitalized on day 98 of hunger strike 

  HDP MP Leyla Guven who is on hunger strike against the isolation of Abdullah Ocalan, has been hospitalized.
• Yellow Vests in Commercy in solidarity with the Rojava Revolution 

  “We are saluting the Rojava and its population who is fighting for a more just and equal democracy, on a model of local assemblies,” said the Yellow Vests in Commercy, France.
• EP United Left members in solidarity with Guven 

  European Parliament United Left members started an action in solidarity with Leyla Guven and to uphold her demands.
• 25 people detained in 3 cities 

  25 people have been detained in political genocide operations in Istanbul, Kocaeli and Malatya.
• German state lays siege to long march for Ocalan 

  The protesters have been marching from Mannheim towards Strasbourg for days, and were attacked by the police on Tuesday evening. 4 activists were wounded during the attack and many were battered. 
• From Cizre to Strasbourg: We must rise up against brutality 

  Former HDP MP Faysal Sariyildiz, and former co-mayor of Cizre Leyla Imret who both join the long march from Basel to Strasbourg, stated that everyone must resist against the Turkish state’s brutal concept that started from Cizire and continues today.
• British lawyers visited hunger striker Sis in Newport 

  British lawyer and campaign consultant for Peace in Kurdistan, Melanie Gingell, was in Newport at the weekend to visit hunger strikers Ilhan Sis.
• Hunger striker Bokani salutes internationalists of ‘Long March’ 

  Expressing that Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan is not only the leader of the Kurds and that Kurds are not just fighting for their rights, Bokani said that Öcalan has developed a vision that will serve the rights of all peoples.
• Several people including a journalist detained in Istanbul 

  The Turkish regime continues its political genocide practices and operations.
• Özdemir visits Strasbourg activists: Europe should do more 

  Cansu Özdemir, co-chair of the Hamburg State Parliament Group of Die Linke visited hunger strikers in Strasbourg.
• Scottish MEP Ward: Bring Anna home 

  Ward talked about the young British woman Anna Campbell, who was “killed by Turkish forces whilst defending the city of Afrin with the YPJ” a year ago on 16 March. 
• Internationalists of ‘Long March’ condemn German police crackdown 

  Internationalists marching from Luxembourg to Strasbourg condemned the police crackdown against activists marching from Mannheim to Strasbourg.
• German police attacks activists on ‘Long March’ for Ocalan 

  Repression by the German police against Kurdish activists continue while Kurdish institutions are also becoming a growing target for German authorities.