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• EASA warns against imminent attack against Syria 

  European Aviation Safety Agency (EASA) issued a warning to airlines for a possible airstrike against Syria.
• HDP executives detained in Kocaeli 

  HDP Çayırova district co-chairs Şahismail Tohumcu and Emine Karaaslan have been taken into custody.
• ISIS occupies two villages of Kirkuk 

  Having increased its attacks around Kirkuk recently, ISIS has occupied two villages in Dahuk.
• FARC Santrich arrest: a hard blow to peace process 

  The People’s Alternative Revolutionary Force Party - FARC has shown a strong reaction to the detention, on Monday, of one of its most prominent and well known member, former commander Jesus Santrich.
• Warning fire against Turkish helicopter near Greek island 

  Greek side took warning-deterrent action, government sources said about incident at the isle of Ro, ERT television reported on Tuesday.
• Erdoğan makes support call to racist provocateur in Stuttgart 

  Turkish racists backed by the AKP resort to provocations at every chance they get. Last Saturday, 39 year old Yusuf Ünsal attacked the tent due to his intolerance against Kurdish flags and a poster of Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan on the tent.
• 7 Iranian soldiers killed in attack on Syrian airbase 

  There are 7 Iranian nationals among the casualties in the air strike against a military airbase in Syria.
• Armenian Genocide Monument to be opened in Amsterdam 

  A monument commemorating the Armenian Genocide of 1915 will be opened in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.
• ISIS member with Turkish flag killed in Kirkuk 

  5 ISIS members have been killed on the Kirkuk border. A Turkish flag was found on one of the killed gang members.
• 20 years today the Good Friday Agreement was signed in Belfast 

  It’s been 20 years since the Belfast Agreement paved the way for a relatively peaceful end to the Troubles in Northern Ireland. The deal was made on Good Friday that year, April 10, 1998, and has become known since as the Good Friday Agreement.
• British union joins campaign for Abdullah Öcalan’s Freedom 

  USDAW trade union is participating in an international solidarity campaign for the first time since its establishment in the 1940s.
• HPG: 5 Turkish soldiers killed in Black Sea region 

  HPG announced that 5 Turkish soldiers were killed in an action targeting the a Turkish military unit participating in an operation in the Black Sea region.
• Lavrov: “Syria should be given control of Afrin” 

  Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov wants the control of Afrin to be given to Syria.
• Aerial attack against the regime in Syria:Moscow points to Israel 

  An aerial attack was carried out in the morning hours against a military base in Syria. At least 14 fighters including Iranian nationals have been reported dead.
• Switzerland bans weapons sales to 21 countries including Turkey 

  The Swiss Ministry of Economy halted weapons exports to 21 countries including Turkey.
• Suicide attack by ISIS against Iraqi forces 

  ISIS gangs have carried out a suicide attack on the military base in the Ambar province’s Hadise subdistrict.
• Mass detentions in Ankara 

  The police conducted house raids in Ankara in the early morning hours where several people were detained.
• Is it a former president or a project going to jail? 

  After a long judicial struggle, former Brazilian President Ignacio Lula da Silva has been sentenced to 12 years in prison accused of corruption.
• 'Afrin fear' in the German army 

  The German Military Intelligence (MAD) warned the German army (Bundeswehr) that it is in the cross hairs of radical left-wing groups due to the Turkish offensive on Afrin.
• Thousands demonstrate in Aleppo for the freedom of Ocalan 

  At a demonstration in Aleppo for the freedom of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, thousands also protested against the attacks of the Turkish state.
• ISIS kills three civilians in Kirkuk 

  The Islamic State has killed three people near the district of Dibis in Kirkuk governorate.
• Boycott action at Los Angeles international airport for Afrin 

  A group protested against Turkey’s attacks against Afrin in Los Angeles, United States.
• ‘Freedom for Öcalan’ demonstration in Hamburg 

  A demonstration was held in Hamburg, Germany under the lead of Jinên Ciwanên Azad, demanding freedom for Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Call to boycott Turkish tourism and goods 

  Kurds protesting against the Turkish invasion of Afrin in the Italian city of Pavia called for a boycott of Turkish goods.
• Hunger strike in front of the UN ends 

  The hunger strike launched in front of the UN headquarters in Geneva in protest at the silence of the UN on the invasion of Afrin by the Turkish state and FSA gangs, has ended on its 20th day.