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• US Senator: Trump is re-evaluating withdrawal from Syria 

  Stating that Trump is determined to prevent a conflict between Turkey and YPG, he has said, "If we leave now, the Kurds will get in a fight with Turkey, they could get slaughtered. Who would help you in the future?"
• Iraq puts over 600 ISIS members on trial in one year 

  Iraqi Supreme Council of Judges issued a statement and announced that over 600 individuals, most of them women, were tried for membership to ISIS in one year.
• HDP holds preliminary elections to select candidates 

  Preliminary elections ensure candidates are the true expression of party delegates.
• Journalist Houda-Pepin: We betrayed the Kurds 

  In an article in the Journal de Montreal, journalist Fatima Houda-Pepin said “we have betrayed the Kurds”.
• 91 prisoners are on indefinite hunger strike in 23 jails 

  Indefinite hunger strikes are being carried out in 23 prisons by 91 prisoners.
• German activists in solidarity with Rojava 

  Remarking that people still die by German weapons all around the world, including Rojava, activists demanded an end to the production and delivery of weapons and the cooperation with the Turkish regime.
• Right government for the autonomous region of Andalusia 

  The change of Government in Andalusia has much more to do with the existential crisis that the Spanish State is going through, than with the concrete electoral proposals of the parties present in that region.
• Raids and detention in Adana and Amed 

  AKP regime's political genocide operations continue.
• Kurdish MPs in Iran call on the UN to act against Turkey’s crimes 

  The Kurdish MPs condemned Turkey's against the Kurds with a green light from the Western and Eastern superpowers and called on the UN and human rights advocates to stop these crimes and the Turkish occupation of northern Syria.
• 20 people detained in Ceylanpınar 

  Political genocide operations continue uninterrupted.
• KONGRA-GEL and KNK visit Strasbourg hunger strikers 

  In the speeches made at the tent, everyone was asked to fulfill its responsibility to ensure the removal of the isolation on Öcalan.
• Demonstration in Rome to support hunger strikers 

  Protests and solidarity actions with the hunger strikers are taking place all over Europe.
• Temelli: Let’s get rid of injustice in our land 

  Temelli addressed a number of issues at the meeting, from ill prisoners to the hunger strike carried out by HDP Hakkari MP, Leyla Güven, from the crisis in Syria to the local elections.
• ESP Leader goes on hunger strike in solidarity with MP Guven 

  ESP Leader Cicek Otlu and Ercis Mayor Diba Keskin, held in the Ankara Sincan Closed Women’s Prison, have started a 10-day hunger strike.
• HDP district offices raided 

  The police raided HDP's Sur offices last night.
• Brescia in solidarity with the Kurdish people 

  Demonstrations against Turkey's threats to occupy Northern Syria continue spreading.
• Italian Greens: Erdogan, hands off Kurdistan 

  The Greens said: “We demand to the Italian Government and the European authorities to take a stance on Turkey and to sanction Erdogan, if necessary, should he lift a finger on the Kurdish allies."
• One-man performance against attacks on Kurdistan 

  The performance was organised by actor Murat Yildiz in Limassol.
• Demonstration in Naples against Turkish threats 

  A demonstration was held in Naples on Friday night, in front of the Turkish consulate.
• March in Marseille against isolation 

  The isolation regime imposed on Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan is being protested in Europe.
• HDP’s Yüksekdağ on hunger strike to support MP Güven 

  HDP former co-chair Figen Yüksekdağ joins the hunger strike action.
• Dersim co-mayor Altun on hunger strike in Kocaeli prison 

  The hunger strike actions are aimed at ending the isolation imposed on Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Hunger strikes against the isolation of Öcalan spread in prisons 

  DTK co-chair and HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven has reached day 51 of her hunger strike to demand the end of the isolation regime imposed on Abdullah Öcalan. 80 prisoners are on an indefinite hunger strike in 18 prisons.
• Switzerland rejects Turkey’s demand for extradition 

  The Turkish state had demanded the extradition of human rights defender Ethem Acikalin, forced to live in exile in Switzerland, but the country rejected the demand and said an extradition is “out of the question”.
• Syrian army responds to YPG’s call  

  The Syrian army has responded to the YPG’s call on the Syrian government against the Turkish state’s threats of invasion, and announced that the army has entered Manbij.