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• 7 policemen and 4 civilians die in the Istanbul blast 

  According to the governor of Istanbul, 7 policemen died and 4 civilians lost their lives in the explosion. Sources say the death toll is actually higher.
• Bomb attack on riot police vehicle in İstanbul 

  An explosion occurred in İstanbul’s Beyazıt district during the passing of a riot police bus Tuesday morning.
• Rojava representatives meet with Kurdish businessmen in Moscow 

  Representatives from Rojava Autonomous Administration met with businessmen from Rojava in Moscow.
• Missile attack from Turkish land targets Kobanê 

  A missile attack has been conducted from Turkish land targeting the Kobanê town of Rojava (West) Kurdistan Sunday evening.
• Tens of people violently detained after the rally in Istanbul 

  Police violently detained tens of people that participated in the "Democratic resistance against the intervention" rally organized by the HDP in Istanbul.
• Demirtaş and Sarıyıldız tell the UN about the people burned alive in Cizre 

  HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş, Şırnak MP Faysal Sarıyıldız and Europe representative Eyüp Doru, met officials from the UN Human Rights Council Secretariat and asked them to take action regarding the massacres in Northern Kurdistan.
• French court rejects Ömer Güney's demand for conditional release 

  A French court has rejected a demand for conditional release of Ömer Güney, the main suspect in the assassination of Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez in French capital Paris on 9 January, 2013.
• 104 bodies found on the coast of Libya 

  104 bodies have been found on the coast of Libya since yesterday, and are believed to be of refugees that drowned during the boat disaster that took place between Sicily and Libya this week.
• Constitutional Court rejects the application of HDP parliamentarians 

  The Constitutional Court rejected the application of HDP parliamentarians for the cancellation of the lifting of their immunities.
• German Parliament recognises the Ottoman genocide of Armenians 

  The German parliament has overwhelmingly approved a resolution calling for a commemoration of the genocide committed by the Ottoman Empire against Armenians other Christian minorities in 1915.
• HDP sends out Cizre's "album of atrocity” to the world 

  HDP turned the photographs from the state terror in Cizre into an album and sent it out to various institutions around the world.
• YPG volunteer from Portugal dies in Til Temir 

  YPG (People's Defense Units) has announced the deaths of Portuguese fighter Mario Nunes and Gelhat Qerecdax from Riha (Urfa).
• Turkey's genocidal attacks in Kurdistan condemned in Melbourne 

  Victoria Kurdistanis Democratic Society Center (NAV-KURD) protested the genocidal attacks by Turkish state forces in front of the Turkish Consulate in Melbourne, Australia.
• HDP organises rally on June 5 for democracy against the coup 

  HDP will conclude the peoples’ meetings they have started against the “one-man regime” with the Resistance Against the Coup Rally to be held on June 5. HDP issued a call for all oppressed groups to join the rally in Bakırköy.
• KOMAW appeals to the ICC on the Turkish massacres in Kurdistan 

  Kurdistan Institution for Families of the Martyrs and the Disappeared (KOMAW) is preparing to appeal to the ICC on the massacres committed by the Turkish army in Kurdistan, primarily in Cizre and Sur.
• Demirtaş: We will not allow Erdoğan to go on like this 

  HDP Co-President Selahattin Demirtaş criticized the massacre attempt in Roboski and Erdoğan’s relations with judicial figures, and saluted Gezi resistance.
• UN: 283.000 people died during the Syrian Civil War 

  The United Nations announced that 283 thousand people died during the 5 yearlong civil war in Syria.
• HDP parliamentarians apply to the Constitutional Court 

  HDP parliamentarians applied to the Constitutional Court for the cancellation of the AKP’s decision to lift their immunities. MHP and CHP parliamentarians had supported the decision.
• KNC statement on the 17th anniversary of the congress 

  Kurdistan National Congress issued a written statement on its 17th anniversary of its establishment and called for enhancing the resistance against the fascism of Erdoğan’s one-man regime.
• City awaiting freedom: Raqqa 

  Raqqa, partial desert with 200 thousand residents, was brought to the attention of the world after the 2014 ISIS invasion.
• Yüksekdağ: HDP has become the only democratic option 

  During a group meeting, HDP Co-President Figen Yüksekdağ evaluated the latest political developments.
• NAV-DEM: Let us increase the resistance against AKP fascism 

  NAV-DEM issued a call for action to attend the demonstrations to be held in Germany against the lifting of the parliamentary immunities in Turkey. NAV-DEM said, “This day is the day to increase and extend all kinds of struggles against fascism.”
• HDP sends letter to the UN on the AKP and Erdoğan 

  HDP Co-Presidents Figen Yüksekdağ and Selahattin Demirtaş sent a letter to UN Secretary Ban Ki Moon, who led the World Humanitarian Summit in İstanbul.
• Rojava representation office to open in Paris 

  After the Russian capital Moscow, Swedish capital Stockholm and German capital Berlin, a Rojava representation office is being opened in the French capital Paris.
• ‘The CPT should take the necessary steps’ 

  Lawyer Reyhan Yalçındağ called upon the CPT to visit İmralı Island more often and increase the pressure on the heavy isolation of Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan.