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• Several HDP members detained in Konya 

  A number of HDP members have been taken into custody in house raids in Konya.
• SDF fighters right in the heart of Raqqa, intense clashes ensue 

  Clashes have contiued since yesterday around the Weteni Hospital and the Rashid Gardens in Raqqa city center. 33 gang members have been killed in the clashes.
• What will the ‘Operation Cizire Storm’ bring in its wake? 

  A great deal of Syria's soil will fall without a doubt under the control of the SDF following the completion of this operation and the achievement of its objective, which means this force will be the leading actor in the process of rebuilding a new Syria.
• Dozens of refugees from Deir ez-Zor reach Ayn Îsa camp 

  Dozens of refugees from Deir ez-Zor have reached the Ayn Îsa camp.
• SDF discovers three ammunition warehouses of ISIS in Raqqa 

  SDF fighters have discovered three ammunition warehouses of ISIS in Mansurah neighbourhood of Raqqa.
• Efforts for the Deir ez-Zor Civilian People’s Council started 

  A Preparation Committee is underway for the foundation of the Deir ez-Zor Civilian Council.
• Iraqi Parliament votes against independence referendum 

  The Iraqi Parliament voted against the referendum planned for September 25 in Southern Kurdistan by a majority and authorized the Prime Minister to take precautions. Kurdish members of the parliament left the General Assembly.
• Kurdish youth harassed by German police and attacked by Turks 

  Kurdish young people continue their long march in Germany to protest the İmralı isolation system imposed on Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan, and demand his freedom.
• Another neighbourhood of Raqqa liberated: Spokesperson 

  Spokesperson of the Operation Wrath of Euphrates, Cîhan Şêx Ehmed, announced the liberation of Raqqa’s al-Suknê neighbourhood from ISIS, and ongoing fierce clashes in Amin and Mansur neighborhoods.
• Police raid the office of Nuriye and Semih’s lawyers 

  Days before the hearing of hunger strikers Nuriye Gülmen and Semih Özakça’s case, the office of the educators’ lawyers was raided by the police. Lawyers continue to resist in the building.
• MİT agent Sayan’s lawyer also defends ISIS members 

  MİT agent Mehmet Fatih Sayan is on trial in Hamburg, Germany and his lawyer Marvin Schroth is also the lawyer of various ISIS members.
• Remembering the 12 September 1980 military coup of Turkey 

  Remembering the 12 September 1980 military coup in Turkey
• Germany won’t declare how many weapons Turkey was given 

  Despite tensions and crises between the Merkel government and the Erdoğan regime, Germany has sold 25 million Euros worth of weapons to Turkey in the first 8 months of the 2017. But Germany announced that they won’t be declaring the whole of arms trade.
• 15 ISIS members killed in two neighborhoods of Raqqa 

  Fierce clashes are taking place between SDF and ISIS in two neighborhoods of Raqqa.
• SDF Commander: 70 percent of Raqqa cleared of ISIS 

  SDF Commander Rojda Felat stated that 70 percent of Raqqa has been cleared of ISIS since the launch of the campaign for the liberation of the city.
• Kurdish youths start a 5-day march for Öcalan in Germany 

  Kurdish youths led by Jinên Ciwanên Azad and Ciwanên Azad have launched a five-day march from Dortmund to Cologne to demand freedom for Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• 10-year prison sentence sought for Yüksekdağ due to her speeches 

  10-year prison sentence has been asked for former co-chair of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, Figen Yüksekdağ, who is not taken to court to attend hearings in the lawsuits she is facing.
• YPJ Commander: We will reach the Euphrates River soon 

  Operation Cizire Storm commander Rojda Kobanê stated that most of the elements partaking in the Deir ez-Zor offensive consist of Arab fighters and said: "If it continues like this, we will reach the Euphrates River within two days."
• SDF rescues hundreds of civilians in northern Deir ez-Zor 

  The ‘Operation Cizire Storm’ launched to liberate the remaining area outside of Syria’s liberated Cizire and Eastern Euphrates lands and to clear the eastern rural areas of Deir ez-Zor, continues.
• Ocalan’s lawyer: Rule of law suspended in Imrali 

  The Imrali prison system and all its practices are illegal, lawyer Baris Oflas, a member of Libertarian Lawyers Platform, says.
• Female prisoners on hunger strike for 26 days 

  The indefinite and non-alternate hunger strike started by 31 inmates in Tarsus Type T Women’s Prison has left 26 days behind.
• Kurds in Canada and Europe demand freedom for Öcalan 

  Kurds living in Canada, Italy, Austria, Sweden and Germany took to the streets and demonstrated for the freedom of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• 23 ISIS members killed in Raqqa 

  Fierce fighting erupted between SDF and ISIS in two neighborhoods of Raqqa, where 23 ISIS members were killed.
• Fighters enter the Industrial Zone in Deir ez-Zor 

  SDF Press Office reported that Deir ez-Zor Military Council forces have entered the Medînit Siniyê (Industrial Zone) in Deir ez-Zor province.
• Call from France: Let's stop the dictatorship of Erdoğan 

  Deputy mayor of the Saint-Denis Municipality in France that hosted a theatre play on the Cizre massacre called Erdoğan a dictator who has to be stopped.