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• Afrin Platform meets with German President 

  A protest demonstration was held during German President’s visit to a UNESCO affiliated school and a store. During the protest, Afrin Platform met with the President.
• Finmeccanica warplane model kit set on fire in Torino 

  In the Italian city of Torino, a warplane model kit of a company cooperating with Turkey was set on fire.
• Police raid against Stuttgart Kurdistan Solidarity Initiative 

  German police raided the homes of Stuttgart Kurdistan Solidarity Initiative members that are in solidarity with Northern Syria’s Afrin Canton under Turkish attack.
• Raids against "Osmanen Germania" in Germany 

  In three federal states raids took place against members of the Osmanen Germania, a Turkish ultra-nationalist gang organized in 2014.
• Italian friend of the Kurds in action for Afrin 

  Italian citizen Andera, a dedicated friend of the Kurds, has started a sit-in for Afrin in front of the Ivrea town municipality.
• KRG will hand over ISIS gang members to Iraq 

  Kurdish Regional Government (KRG) will hand over ISIS gang members who were captured by Kurdish forces to Iraq.
• Huge pro-Afrin banner on the Technical University of Berlin 

  A huge banner in solidarity with Afrin was hung on the building of the Technical University of Berlin in Germany.
• The tribunal on Turkish war crimes to start in Paris 

  A session of the Permanent Peoples Tribunal on Turkish war crimes against Kurdish people will be held in Paris’ Bourse du Travail on 15 and 16 March 2018.
• “Turkey causes tensions with Greece because of Afrin” 

  The Greek Minister of Defense warned that; “We see that Turkey wants to behave in Cyprus and the Aegean like it does in Iraq and Syria. However, Cyprus and Greece are not Middle Eastern countries.”
• ANF launches Russian service 

  Fırat News Agency (ANF) ANF was available in Kurdish, Turkish, English, Arabic, Persian, Spanish, German and Sorani and has now expanded into Russian.
• Europe: Tens of thousands protest Turkey’s attacks of Afrin 

  Tens of thousands of Kurds organized demonstrations and civil disobedience actions in several European cities to protest Turkey’s invasion of Afrin.
• Hollande: Those attacked in Afrin are those fighting ISIS 

  Rojava Representative for France, Xalid Isa met with former President of France, François Hollande to call attention to the Turkish state’s invasion and genocidal attacks against Afrin.
• Afrin demonstrations in Europe, Australia and Canada  

  Protests in support of the resistance of Afrin took place yesterday in several Swedish cities as well as in Australia, Canada and Kiel.
• Civil disobedience action for Afrin at Dusseldorf Airport  

  In Germany, the actions continue for Afrin. In Dusseldorf, an action of civil disobedience action took place at the airport. The police attacked the activists and injured four people.
• Death threats against Thuringia's PM over solidarity with Afrin 

  Thuringia's left-wing Prime Minister Bodo Ramelow has received death threats by pro-AKP Turkish social media users after his tweets about his support to YPG. His wife is also threatened on Twitter.
• Saleh Moslem: Turkey kills Kurds in Afrin with European weapons 

  TEV-DEM foreign relations official and former PYD leader Saleh Moslem said; “Nobody has the right to tell the people of Afrin to leave. That land belongs to the people of Afrin. The children there are protecting their lands. Why should they abandon it?"
• Murdered in Paris, banned in Hannover  

  In 2013, Kurdish revolutionaries Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez were murdered by the Turkish intelligence agency MIT in Paris. In Hannover, their pictures are no longer be allowed to be shown.
• KCK urges international powers to intervene in Afrin 

  Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) called upon all to rise up against Turkish invasion of Afrin and urged international powers to intervene.
• Ten-year-old boy killed in an explosion in Hakkari 

  A ten-year-old boy was killed after a device he found exploded in his hands in Yuksekova, a district of Hakkari province.
• German police confiscate thousands of books and CDs 

  Thousands of books and CDs have been confiscated during the raid on the Mezopotamien Publishing House and the Mir Multimedia music company.
• Turkish warplanes continue bombing of Afrin city centre 

  Turkish warplanes are bombing Afrin’s city center, local sources say.
• Asya Abdullah calls for urgent action for Afrin 

  Movement for a Democratic Society (TEV-DEM) co-chair Asya Abdullah called upon all Kurds for urgent action for Afrin.
• Thousands protest Turkish attacks on Afrin throughout Europe 

  In Europe, thousands of people protest Turkey’s invasion attack on Afrin as Turkish army and gangs approached within 2 kilometers of the city.
• “Another gift from Germany to autocrat Erdoğan” 

  DIE LINKE North Rhine-Westphalia protested against the raid on Mesopotamia Publishing House and MIR Multimedia Company and demanded the return of confiscated objects.
• “As long as the UN remains silent we will continue to resist” 

  Kurdish protestors and solidarity groups continued their actions to protest the attack on Afrin in front of the office of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.