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• 'Resistance to become popular movement if Öcalan is not accessed' 

  DTK co-chair Hatip Dicle, HDP co-chairs Figen Yüksekdağ and Selahattin Demirtaş, HDK co-spokespersons Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit and Ertuğrul Kürkçü and HDP deputies have paid a visit to the hunger strikers in Amed today.
• KONGRA GEL calls for solidarity with the hunger strike in Amed 

  KONGRA GEL has called upon the Kurdish people to show solidarity with the hunger strike launched in Amed yesterday with demand of immediate access to Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Brett McGurk visits SDF and YPG officials in Kobanê 

  Special Presidential Envoy for the Global Coalition to Counter ISIL Brett McGurk visited officials in Kobanê town of Rojava, West Kurdistan, yesterday.
• One Turkish soldier killed as YPG retaliates against Turkish army attack 

  Turkish soldiers sprayed bullets on an YPG-held outpost in Rojava, to which YPG forces responded, leaving one soldier dead.
• TAK claims the action against gendarme in Antalya's Kemer district 

  TAK has claimed responsibility for the action against a gendarme minibus in Kemer district of the southern Antalya province on August 24.
• Hunger strike for Öcalan and Shengal in Strasbourg in its 14th day 

  The indefinite-irreversible hunger strike in Strasbourg, demanding the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan be lifted and status of Shengal be recognized, continues in its 14th day.
• Sinn Fein Spokesperson calls for immediate access to Öcalan 

  Sinn Féin’s spokesperson on Foreign Affairs, Seán Crowe TD, has backed calls for a family member, lawyer, or political delegation, to be granted immediate access to visit Abdullah Öcalan in prison.
• KESK, DİSK and ABF call for urgent access to Öcalan 

  On the first day of the historic hunger strike, KESK, DİSK and ABF called upon the AKP to end the isolation of Öcalan.
• Moslem: ISIS lost and so will Turkey 

  PYD Co-President Saleh Moslem spoke during the 24th International Kurdish Culture Festival and said that Kurds were writing history in the Middle East and Turkey would soon lose as ISIS did recently.
• Support grows for the hunger strikers from Shengal Diaspora Assembly 

  Many groups continue to visit and support the Shengal Diaspora Assembly administrators who entered the 13th day of their hunger strike and demand immediate communication with Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• 24th International Kurdish Cultural Festival kicks off in Cologne 

  24th International Kurdish Cultural Festival has kicked off in the German city of Cologne with the participation of thousands.
• Worldwide urgent appeal against Turkish occupation in Rojava 

  Intellectuals, writers, artists, politicians and human rights defenders started a petition seeking to draw urgent attention to the Turkish state’s invasion in Northern Syria and Rojava.
• German police block the Long March for Öcalan's freedom 

  German police teams have obstructed the participants of the Long March demanding freedom for Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan ahead of the 24th Kurdish Culture Festival.
• Êzidî parents: “Öcalan is a comrade to the poor and the oppressed” 

  As the hunger strike in Strasbourg enters day 11, the activists’ resolve is alive and well. Hunger striker Shengal Diaspora Assembly Chair Fikret Igrek’s family issued a call for awareness for Êzidî Kurds.
• Saleh Moslem speaks at EP: EU must speak up about Turkey’s invasion 

  PYD Co-chair Saleh Moslem spoke in the conference held in the EP: “EU countries must speak up against Turkey’s invasion of Rojava.” Muslim also revealed that they are in possession of documents proving Turkey’s aid to ISIS.
• Demos in Europe against isolation of Öcalan and invasion of Jarablus 

  In demonstrations in several European centers, Kurds took to the streets in protest of the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan and the Turkish army’s invasion of Jarablus.
• Philologist Necmiye Alpay arrested 

  Özgür Gündem Publication Advisory Council Member and philologist writer Necmiye Alpay has been arrested.
• Turkish soldiers kill two people from Rojava on Girê Spî border 

  Soldiers of the occupant Turkish army murdered two people from Rojava yesterday evening.
• Kurdish politicians to go on indefinite hunger strike for Öcalan 

  All constituents of Kurdish politics in Turkey have gathered in Amed and released a historic declaration announcing the beginning of a new period, with an indefinite - irreversible hunger strike to be launched by 50 politicians on September 5.
• Long March for Öcalan's freedom by Kurdish youth in Germany 

  Kurdish youth gathered in Duisburg and began a Long March for the freedom of Kurdish People’s Leader Öcalan.
• Final declaration of the Federal System Constituent Assembly meeting 

  Northern Syria Democratic Federal System Constituent Assembly announced the final declaration of its meeting in Derik, and called upon peoples and international powers to take a stance against the Turkish state.
• Another village liberated in Shehba region 

  Jaysh Al-Suwar, Bab Military Council and Al-Shîmal Democratic Brigade fighters have liberated the Herbel village from ISIS gangs.
• Hunger strike for Öcalan's freedom in Athens in its third day 

  The hunger strike launched in Greek capital Athens for the freedom of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan continues on its third day.
• EP to host conference on the urgent situation in Northern Syria 

  European Parliament in Brussels will host a press conference on September 1st focusing on the urgent situation in Northern Syria - the Turkish invasion, Europe’s security and an alternative to the Turkey deal.
• Kurdish youth begins Long March in Germany 

  Kurdish youth began a Long March in Germany today to protest Öcalan’s isolation and the occupation of Rojava.