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• 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’.
• Solidarity with Leyla Güven in Amed 

  Despite the police blockade, a group of people managed to reach Leyla Güven's apartment yesterday and loudly expressed their solidarity with the hunger strikers.
• HDP Bismil co-mayor candidates met the people 

  HDP continued to present the co-mayor candidates for 31 March local elections.
• Protest against isolation in Athens, Nice and Mantes la Jolie 

  Protests are being organised throughout Europe to demand the end of isolation against Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Demo in Italy to mark 20th anniversary of Öcalan’s capture 

  The rally is being organised in Rome and is expected to attract a huge crowd.
• Brazil calculates ecological damages after the Brumadinho tragedy 

  The number of dead in Brazil reached 121 while the multinational responsible of the mine exploitation is protested against in Switzerland.
• Hunger strike in Strasbourg reached day 49 

  “We must stand up. Otherwise see, what happened to Afrin? What happened to Kirkuk? If we don't stand up, the entire Kurdistan could go from our hands.”
• Thousands rallied in Istanbul in solidarity with hunger strikers 

  Promoted to demand the end of isolation against Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan, the rally also called on everyone to support the hunger strike led by DTK co-chair and HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven.
• Swedish deputy: The world should take a stand 

  Swedish Left Party MP Ali Esbati said they support the demands of Leyla Güven and hunger strikers.
• Colombian army operation against dissident guerrillas killed ten 

  One of the dead was former FARC commander Rodrigo Cadetei.
• Three-day ‘Long March’ started in Hildesheim 

  About 150 participants covered about 16 kilometers on the first day of the long march on the route between Hildesheim and Sarstedt.