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• Hatip Dicle told activists in Rome: Öcalan is the Kurdish Mandela 

  The march was promoted by Rete Kurdistan Italia and UIKI and counted with the support of some 50 organisations, groups, civil society associations, as well as Italian biggest trade union CGIL, former mayor of Riace Mimmo Lucano, mayors of Palermo, Naples.
• Kurdish hunger striker in Toronto: We will write history 

  Yusuf Iba who has been on hunger strike in Toronto for over a month said “We will be those writing history”.
• Trump calls for the repatriation and trial of ISIS fighters 

  Trump said the ISIS Caliphate is ready to fall.
• Long March in south France ended with a rally 

  The three-day march protested the international conspiracy and isolation against Abdullah Öcalan and expressed solidarity with Kurdish hunger strikes and Rojava.
• Long March for Öcalan in Gothenburg on day 2 

  The two-day march protests the international conspiracy and isolation against Abdullah Öcalan.
• Ilham Ehmed visited hunger striker Sis in Wales 

  Kurds and their friends are not leaving the hunger strikers demanding the end of Ocalan’s isolation alone.
• Sinn Féin McDonald: Time to look beyond Brexit and partition 

  With time running out to avert a disastrous crash Brexit, McDonald called for an all-Ireland conversation and a forum to plan for a referendum on Irish unity. 
• Spain goes to the polls 

  The fragile government finally could not withstand so much pressure and called for snap general elections.
• Hunger strikers at Strasbourg rally: We will break the isolation 

  Strasbourg hunger strike activists who have joined today’s rally stressed that; “No matter the price, we will break the isolation and defeat fascism”.
• Güven and Yağız call for resistance until isolation ends 

  HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven, who is on her 101st day of hunger strike and Nasır Yağız, who has been on hunger strike for 88 days, sent a video message to the rally in Strasbourg.
• Strasbourg rally against isolation commended the resistance 

  Demonstrations to protest the International Conspiracy which, 20 years ago, led to the abduction of Abdullah Öcalan and commend the hunger strike resistance are taking place in different cities.
• Australian senator tabled a motion to parliament for Güven 

  Motion tabled at Australian Parliament on day 100 of Leyla Güven's hunger strike.
• French MPs issue call for Rojava and hunger strikes 

  Dozens of MP and senator women from various political parties in France called on the country to take urgent initiative with the UN Security Council and to support Rojava, targeted by Turkey, as well as Kurdish women on hunger strikes against isolation.
• Two more prisoners go on indefinite hunger strike 

  The Kurdish hunger strike campaign against the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan continues growing.
• Long March for Öcalan in south France on day 3 

  The long march in south France continues on the third day.
• 11 people detained in Bursa 

  Political genocide operations of the Turkish regime continue.
• Rome to protest the international conspiracy against Öcalan 

  Ocalan had first landed in Italy, in November 1998, but subsequently left Italy. By the time he was granted political asylum here he had already been captured and brought to Imrali.
• March for freedom in Strasbourg: Isolation will be broken! 

  Tens of thousands of people have flocked to Strasbourg from all over Europe and are marching with the slogans, “Freedom for Ocalan” and “Leyla Guven is our honor”.
• Kurdish hunger strikes on Federal German Parliament’s agenda 

  The Kurdish hunger strike campaign demanding an end to the isolation imposed upon Ocalan was brought to the agenda of the German Parliament. Die Linke MP Akbulut asked the Merkel government what they think about the isolation in Imrali and hunger strikes.
• Tens of thousands gather in Strasbourg to rally for Öcalan 

  Masses from several European countries have started to gather in Strasbourg to protest the February 15 international conspiracy and salute the hunger strike campaign to break the isolation.
• International conspiracy against Öcalan protested in Sydney 

  The international conspiracy against Abdullah Öcalan has been protested by the Kurds and their friends all around the world.
• Ögmundur Jónasson: We want to be the voice of Leyla Güven 

  Iceland's former Interior and Justice minister Ogmundur Jónasson, who has visited Turkey as part of an international delegation, said the isolation imposed on Ocalan was an act against humanity.
• Protest for Ocalan outside Turkish embassy in Bolivia 

  In front of the Turkish Embassy in the Bolivian capital La Paz, women demonstrated for the freedom of the PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan and expressed their solidarity with the resistance of Leyla Güven.
• Argentina: Freedom for Öcalan, solidarity with Leyla Güven 

  The activists demanded freedom for the Kurdish People’s Leader Öcalan and expressed solidarity with the HDP deputy Leyla Güven, who has been on an indefinite hunger strike against the isolation of Öcalan for 100 days.
• Brazilian Left Front in solidarity with Leyla Güven 

  100 days of hunger strike: ​Leyla Güven is joined by more than 300 people in hunger strike against Turkey’s authoritarian regime and for the ending of solitary confinement of Abdullah Öcalan.