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• Kick off for March 31 local elections in Turkey 

  The March 31 local elections campaign period is starting in Turkey.
• Chief Pentagon spokeswoman announces resignation 

  US Department of Defense spokeswoman Dana White announced that she has resigned from the Trump administration.
• HDP MP Abdullah Zeydan goes on hunger strike against isolation 

  HDP MP Abdullah Zeydan, imprisoned in the Edirne Prison, has also started a hunger strike protesting the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan.
• MLKP prisoners to join the hunger strike action for Öcalan 

  MLKP prisoners will start hunger strike on 3-8 January in solidarity with the growing hunger strikes demanding an end to the isolation regime imposed on Abdullah Öcalan.
• Leyla Güven: 2019 will be a year of resistance and freedom 

  "From 2019, our target will be bigger than our expectations. I wish everyone, especially the insurgents a new year, and it would not be a year of hunger, misery, unemployment, child abuse, women's assault, arrests, deaths."
• Strasbourg hunger strikers: We'll step up the resistance in 2019 

  The hunger strike carried out in Strasbourg began the new year with words of resistance.
• Strasbourg hunger strikers call on Europeans to join the struggle 

  In Strasbourg, activists, who have been on hunger strike for 15 days, called on Europeans to share important values ​​with Kurds through a French newspaper.
• KONGRA-GEL calls for increased struggle in 2019 

  "As was proved during the Kobanê resistance, we believe that international solidarity will be very effective in breaking Imralı isolation and in the destruction of fascism."
• DTK: 2019 will be a year of resistance and achievements 

  “The resistance, based in Rojava against the genocidal occupation and elimination policies carried out by regional and international forces has been the light and inspiration for the future of the whole Middle East.”
• Strasbourg strikers: 2019 will be the year for Ocalan’s freedom 

  “We call on our people to raise the resistance and struggle with the motto “Remove the isolation, defeat fascism and liberate Kurdistan. 2019 will be the year for Leader Apo’s freedom and Kurdistan’s liberation,” said the hunger strikers in Strasbourg.
• US Senator: Trump is re-evaluating withdrawal from Syria 

  Stating that Trump is determined to prevent a conflict between Turkey and YPG, he has said, "If we leave now, the Kurds will get in a fight with Turkey, they could get slaughtered. Who would help you in the future?"
• Iraq puts over 600 ISIS members on trial in one year 

  Iraqi Supreme Council of Judges issued a statement and announced that over 600 individuals, most of them women, were tried for membership to ISIS in one year.
• HDP holds preliminary elections to select candidates 

  Preliminary elections ensure candidates are the true expression of party delegates.
• Journalist Houda-Pepin: We betrayed the Kurds 

  In an article in the Journal de Montreal, journalist Fatima Houda-Pepin said “we have betrayed the Kurds”.
• 91 prisoners are on indefinite hunger strike in 23 jails 

  Indefinite hunger strikes are being carried out in 23 prisons by 91 prisoners.
• German activists in solidarity with Rojava 

  Remarking that people still die by German weapons all around the world, including Rojava, activists demanded an end to the production and delivery of weapons and the cooperation with the Turkish regime.
• Right government for the autonomous region of Andalusia 

  The change of Government in Andalusia has much more to do with the existential crisis that the Spanish State is going through, than with the concrete electoral proposals of the parties present in that region.
• Raids and detention in Adana and Amed 

  AKP regime's political genocide operations continue.
• Kurdish MPs in Iran call on the UN to act against Turkey’s crimes 

  The Kurdish MPs condemned Turkey's against the Kurds with a green light from the Western and Eastern superpowers and called on the UN and human rights advocates to stop these crimes and the Turkish occupation of northern Syria.
• 20 people detained in Ceylanpınar 

  Political genocide operations continue uninterrupted.
• KONGRA-GEL and KNK visit Strasbourg hunger strikers 

  In the speeches made at the tent, everyone was asked to fulfill its responsibility to ensure the removal of the isolation on Öcalan.
• Demonstration in Rome to support hunger strikers 

  Protests and solidarity actions with the hunger strikers are taking place all over Europe.
• Temelli: Let’s get rid of injustice in our land 

  Temelli addressed a number of issues at the meeting, from ill prisoners to the hunger strike carried out by HDP Hakkari MP, Leyla Güven, from the crisis in Syria to the local elections.
• ESP Leader goes on hunger strike in solidarity with MP Guven 

  ESP Leader Cicek Otlu and Ercis Mayor Diba Keskin, held in the Ankara Sincan Closed Women’s Prison, have started a 10-day hunger strike.
• HDP district offices raided 

  The police raided HDP's Sur offices last night.