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• Kurdish activist on day 24 of hunger strike in Duisburg 

  Kurdish hunger strike resistance demanding an end to the isolation of Öcalan continues growing.
• Campaign for Leyla Guven: Over 10.000 signatures 

  More than 10.000 people have participated in the petition launched for Leyla Guven. 
• HDP election bureau attacked, candidate detained in Ceylanpinar 

  The AKP regime's police has attacked the HDP election bureau in Ceylanpinar with tear gas and detained candidate Narin Gezgor.
• Die Linke MP visits Strasbourg activists: The isolation must end 

  Die Linke MP Martina Renner visited Strasbourg to show support for the hunger strikes against the isolation and said they are working to have the demands accepted at the level of Germany and Europe.
• Day 51 in Strasbourg: Resistance on the people’s agenda 

  Kurds who came from Kurdistan and Australia to visit the hunger strikers in Strasbourg said, “Our agenda is resistance”.
• Demo against isolation in front of the SPD office in Berlin 

  Solidarity actions in support of the Kurdish hunger strike campaign continue in the German capital city Berlin.
• Simonnet: Paris should pressure the government for Guven 

  “What is this demand that she risks her own life for? She demands an end to the isolation imposed upon Abdullah Ocalan, the Mandela of Kurdish people.”
• Paris awards Leyla Guven with honorary citizenship 

  The Paris City Council has awarded Leyla Guven with honorary citizenship on Councillor Danielle Simonnet’s appeal.
• Two Kurdish activists on indefinite hunger strike in Germany 

  Kurdish hunger strike resistance demanding an end to the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan, is growing.
• Hunger striker Sarikaya: We can put an end to isolation 

  Underlining that the hunger strike is an important opportunity in terms of breaking isolation, Sarikaya said: “We will end isolation through our hunger strike. This is a big opportunity.”
• Youth protest isolation in Adana 

  HDP Adana Youth Council promoted an action in solidarity with hunger strikers.
• Visitors continue to pay their respect to Leyla Güven 

  Kurdish politician Leyla Güven is on day 90 of her hunger strike against the isolation of Öcalan.
• HDP announces its candidates for Bingöl and Ağrı 

  The HDP is presenting the candidates who would contest the local elections scheduled for 31 March.
• Hunger strikers in the Hague continue their action 

  In the city of the Hague in the Netherlands, Kurdish activists Hüseyin Yıldız and Hasbi Çakıcı continue their hunger strike resistance.
• Spain spends over 838 million euros in military operations abroad 

  According to the report by the Spanish Defence Ministry thus, the army is involved in 18 military operation around the world, which amount to some 2,500 men employed in a regular manner.
• Solidarity message to Leyla Güven from Uppsala council 

  Smedberg called on Sweden and the European Union to put pressure on Turkey: “We should never allow human rights violations, nor crimes carried out by a State.”
• Demo for hunger strikers in Athens 

  Young people in Athens promoted a new action in solidarity with hunger strikers.
• Strasbourg hunger strike: Day 50 

  The doctors try to get the activists to rest as much as possible and to avoid long visits with people coming to express their support.
• Imam Sis: With the hunger strike I feel I am free 

  Imam Sis, who has been on a hunger strike to protest the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan for almost two months in Newport, Wales, said the hunger strike makes him feel free.
• Leyla Guven’s health critical 

  Leyla Guven has started to have serious complications as her hunger strike reaches day 89. Guven can’t walk on her own, has stomach cramps and trouble keeping down fluids. Medical professionals warn that “undesirable situations may arise”.
• Day 50 in the Strasbourg resistance 

  Visits to the hunger strike in Strasbourg continue. The children’s choir Koma Heja were among the people who support the hunger strikers.
• Iranian Shias attacked in Salahaddin 

  A group of Iranian Shias were attacked during a visit to their sacred sites in Salahaddin. One Iranian died in the bombing and 7 others were wounded.
• Mass memorial for HPG guerrilla Siyar Gabar in Germany 

  A memorial was held for Siyar Gabar, who was martyred in the Turkish airstrike on July 9, 2018, in Hamburg, Germany.
• Kurdish hunger striker in Toronto hospitalized again 

  Yusuf Iba, who is on an indefinite hunger strike in Toronto, has been hospitalized for the second time.
• Long march against isolation from Basel to Strasbourg 

  Many Kurds and their friends in Switzerland and France are preparing to march from the city of Basel to Strasbourg, and demand ‘Remove the isolation, defeat fascism, and free Kurdistan’.