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• 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”.
• 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.