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• EU to announce critical report on Turkey 

  European Commissioner for European Neighborhood Policy and Enlargement Negotiations Johannes Hahn will announce a report on Turkey’s accession process next week. The report is expected to include harsh criticisms against the Erdoğan government.
• Russian resolution not approved at UN Security Council meeting 

  The draft resolution presented by Russia asking the UNSC to condemn the “aggression” against Syria from military strikes carried out by the United States, Britain, and France, has been rejected.
• Attacks on Syria: who said what 

  As it was to be expected the decision by the US president, Donald Trump, to launch, together with the UK and France,  air strikes on Syria has proved globally divisive. While some countries praising the military action others condemned it.
• USA attacks in Syria: where and what was hit? 

  The United States together with the United Kingdom and France have finally concretise their threat of striking Syria for the alleged chemical attack by the Damascus regimen in Duma.
• Assad: “Our resolve against terrorism has become stronger” 

  Assad said, “This attack has made our resolve to fight and crush terrorism on every inch of Syrian territory all that much stronger.”
• EU and Berlin support attack against Syria 

  Council of Europe President Donald Tusk announced that the European Union will “stand by their alliances” regarding the military intervention in Syria.
• Reports: Air strikes target Syrian chemical capabilities 

  U.S., British and French forces launched air strikes on Syria in response to a suspected poison gas attack that killed dozens of people.
• Turkey announces support for strikes on Syria 

  The Turkish state which invaded Afrin and several other areas in Northern Syria with the approval of Russia, announced support for the US strikes on Syria.
• A Stormy Summit 

  This Friday and Saturday the capital of Peru, Lima, will host the VIII Summit of the Americas, a diplomatic meeting wanted by the US in the mid-1990s, marked by the envisaged "fall" of the Cuban Revolution.
• Karlsruhe Prosecutor Office hits hard on Kurds 

  The Federal Prosecutor's Office in Karlsruhe opened 136 preparatory investigations in 2017, in connection with the PKK.
• Demirtaş: I do not expect justice from this court 

  Selahattin Demirtaş, former HDP co-chair, said in his defense speech at the court in Ankara: "I have neither the hope nor the expectation that this court will exercise justice."
• European Court of Justice to rule on delisting the PKK 

  The lawsuit filed to the European Court of Justice, demanding the lifting of the PKK from the EU's list of terrorist organizations, opens on Monday 16 April, writes Yeni Özgür Politika.
• 6-month prison sentence for HDP’s Yüksekdağ 

  HDP Co-chair Figen Yüksekdağ has received 6-month prison sentence.
• Herford: DITIB is involved in war propaganda with children 

  The branch of the Turkish Religious Authority Diyanet, DITIB, used children in military uniforms at an event in Herford for nationalist propaganda.
• Poll asks “Does Turkey constitute a threat for Europe?” 

  French magazine Le Point has launched a poll asking whether Turkey constitutes a threat for Europe.
• Italian Bolzano Province sends emergency aid to Shehba 

  The Italian Province of Bolzano (Trentino Alto Adige region, in the north of Italy) has approved a 40 thousand euro emergency fund to be sent to the people of Afrin now displayed in the camp in Shehba.
• Syria: who could do what? What the dangers? 

  All signals indicate the West could launch an "attack" against Syria at any moment. But what made tensions rise and why we might be on the verge of a new phase of this war?
• Erdoğan’s “child soldiers” in Germany 

  A similar spectacle to that the Turkish President Erdoğan had with children wearing army fatigues has happened in Germany. In a DİTİB mosque in Herford, children were given toy guns, dressed in army fatigues and made to sing racist anthems.
• Explosion in Azaz: Several casualties 

  In an explosion in Turkey- and FSA-invaded Azaz, several people died. The explosion is assumed to be the result of internal conflict among groups under the MİT.
• Basel Canton Parliament calls for action for Afrin 

  Switzerland’s Basel Canton Parliament pointed out that the Turkish state kills civilians in Afrin and called for Switzerland and international forces to take action.
• Medicine donation campaign for Afrin in Cologne 

  Afrin people urgently need medicines. The platform "Solidarity with Afrin" has launched a donation campaign in Cologne. Medication can be given in the solidarity tent in front of Cologne Cathedral.
• KNK’s Uzun: They wanted to kill everybody in Afrin 

  KNK's Adem Uzun said; "Turkey is trying to make an ethnic cleansing over there, putting the Kurdish enclave out and bringing the jihadists and their families in. That is something totally against civil law, international law, it is something criminal."
• Livorno City Council in solidarity with Afrin 

  A huge banner in solidarity with Afrin was hung on the building of Italy’s Livorno City Council
• Germany’s “only issue” is the left showing solidarity with Kurds 

  German leftist movements showing strong solidarity with Kurds has disturbed the intelligence units. The Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution prepared a report on the matter.
• HDP’s Demirtaş in Court: "I stand by what I said and did" 

  “We were accused of many things, but the real sabotage came once again from the Turkish side which did not want the peace process to begin and worked, with its intelligence, to sabotage this historic attempt”.