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• 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. 
• Canadian MP visited hunger striker Iba in Toronto 

  Canadian MP Garnett Genuis visited Yusuf Iba on his 47th day of hunger strike.
• Yazidi genocide discussed at European Parliament 

  A conference took place at the European Parliament about the Yazidi genocide.
• Hunger strike in Strasbourg reached day 74 

  14 people are taking part in the indefinite hunger strike against the isolation launched in Strasbourg on 17 December 2018. Hunger striker and KCDK-E co-chair Yüksel Koç called on Kurds in Europe to support and join actions and the resistance.
• Sinn Féin puts question to Irish Parliament about Leyla Güven 

  "The Irish Government will continue to monitor developments in Turkey both in terms of the hunger strike, and on our wider concerns on human rights, freedom of expression, the rule of law, and democracy.”
• 43 academics write to European institutions on Ocalan's isolation 

  Ocalan is recognised as their leader by millions of Kurds, and you don’t have to be Kurdish to recognise the huge impact of his ideas in bringing democratic practices to Northern Syria, building bridges between different ethnic groups.
• 18 prisoners exiled 

  16 prisoners including 4 hunger strikers were exiled from the Antep Type L Prison to the Antep Type H Prison, while 2 prisoners were exiled from the Kiriklar Type F Closed Prison No.1 to the Isparta Type E Closed Prison.
• Operation against ISIS by Iraq and the Coalition 

  The Iraqi army and the International Coalition carried out an operation against ISIS in and around Kirkuk with air strikes. 4 ISIS members were killed in the operation.
• Solidarity march with hunger strikers in Stuttgart 

  A march was organised in Stuttgart to reaffirm solidarity and support to the Kurdish hunger strikers.
• Women held civil disobedience action in Mannheim 

  Solidarity actions demanding the end of isolation against Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan are continuing.
• Urgent call for strengthening international solidarity with Güven 

  HDP vice co chair called upon political leaders and parliamentarians, especially the women, to urgently organize visits to Leyla Güven towards strengthening international solidarity on the issue.