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• TUIK announced the latest unemployment figures 

  In September 2018, unemployment rose by 0.8 percentage points to 11.4 percent.
• Hunger strike in Moscow on day 3 

  Protests denouncing the Turkish state’s genocidal war against the Kurdish people continue.
• Global Compact for Migration: Advance or failure? 

  A little over 150 countries have signed the Global Compact, without committing them to anything in particular.
• Attacks on Maxmur and Shengal condemned in Sydney 

  “Erdoğan saw the end of DAESH approaching and carried out new attacks in order to revert this.”
• Hunger strike in Paris on day 10 

  A new group of 24 people took over the action at the Paris Democratic Kurdish Community Center.
• Leyla Imret dedicated prize to the Martyrs 

  Former co-mayor of Cizre, Leyla Imret dedicated the Carl von Ossietzky Medal to martyrs for Kurdish freedom.
• March to support hunger strikers in Stuttgart 

  A joint march and rally was held in Stuttgart, Germany promoted by Maraş Initiative and KCDK-E with the slogan “Let’s Break the Isolation, Defeat Fascism, free the Leader”.
• Revolutionary Youth hit factories and workplaces 

  Factories and workplaces set on fire to protest against the isolation imposed on Abdullah Öcalan.
• Indefinite hunger strike to be launched in Strasbourg 

  The Kurdish umbrella organization KCDK-E announced that they will begin an indefinite hunger strike with 18 people in Strasbourg on Monday.
• The wolf may lose his hair but not his habits 

  Nicholas Watt, a political editor for the BBC, reported on a recent encounter he had with a conservative British politician. "A Tory grandee recently sidled up to me to express grave reservations about the Brexit process," he wrote.
• The Spanish State made highest investment in arms in 20 years 

  Spain has been a member of NATO since 1984 and has participated in numerous military interventions of this war alliance, such as the aggression against Yugoslavia, the second Gulf War and the intervention in Afghanistan, in which it still participates.
• Solidarity hunger strikes in Europe continue 

  Hunger strikes in solidarity with DTK Co-chair and HDP MP Leyla Güven demanding an end to the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan continue all over Europe.
• Mexican President sent new education plan to Congress 

  The proposal establishes, as its main element, the creation of a Center for the Revaluation of Teaching while decreeing the extinction of the current National Institute for the Evaluation of Education.
• Pisa protested Turkish attacks on Makhmur and Shengal 

  Demonstrations against Turkey’s genocidal war against the Kurds continue all around the world.
• Kurdish parties and organisations reject the US decision 

  Over 82 Kurdish parties, organisations and personalities rejected the US decision to put a bounty on 3 senior PKK figures and proposed plan for action.
• PKK and PAJK prisoners announced indefinite hunger strike 

  A group of 30 PKK and PAJK prisoners will begin an indefinite hunger strike on Sunday 16 December.
• HDP administrator jailed in Osmaniye 

  Turkish state’s political genocide operations against the Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) continue.
• Iraqi MP: Turkish attacks constitute a threat, must stop 

  Musenna Emin urged the Iraqi government to take a stance against the Turkish attacks on Iraqi Kurdistan on the grounds that they constitute a threat.
• HDP MP Aydeniz: Isolation is part of the war against Kurds 

  HDP Amed deputy Saliha Aydeniz said the Imrali isolation system has no equals in the world and shows the extent of the war against Kurds.
• Kurdish organizations meet in Brussels against the US decision 

  Representatives of dozens of Kurdish organizations and parties have met in Brussels against the US decision to put a bounty on PKK executives Cemil Bayık, Murat Karayılan and Duran Kalkan.
• Mayor of Palermo reaffirms solidarity with Kurdish people 

  Mayor Leoluca Orlando expressed concern for the health situation of Öcalan.
• Solidarity hunger strike in Marseille on day 10 

  The hunger strike in Marseille, France continues on its 10th day.
• “As Turkey's local elections loom, reckless war-mongering begins" 

  HDP Co-Chairs Pervin Buldan and Sezai Temelli urged the national and international public to show alertness towards Erdoğan’s threats and not to remain silent.
• Rete Kurdistan urges Italian councils to defend Kurds’ rights 

  The Italian association has met with Bari’s mayor and asked councils to act in defence of the rights of Kurds.
• Day 9 of solidarity hunger strike in Copenhagen 

  Protest actions against the isolation regime imposed on Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan continue all over Europe.