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• PKK prisoner dies in jail 

  PKK member Cemal Özkan (51) has lost his life in Rize Kalkandere L Type Prison where served his sentence.
• Historic decision by Austrian Parliament on Kobanê and Shengal 

  All the parties in the Austrian Parliament have approved a resolution of support for the reconstruction of Rojava's Kobanê town and the Êzîdî town of Shengal in South Kurdistan.
• Barzani meets HDP delegation in Ankara 

  Masoud Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP), who is in Turkish capital Ankara for a series of talks since yesterday, has met a delegation from the HDP (Peoples' Democratic Party).
• Slavoj Žižek: Turkey brutally attacks Kurdish forces battling ISIS 

  In an article on New Statesman, Žižek stated that the so-called “war on terror” has become a clash within each civilisation, in which every side pretends to fight Isis in order to hit its true enemy.
• KDP President Masoud Barzani in Ankara 

  Masoud Barzani, President of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) which has recently strengthened its cooperation with Turkey's AKP government, has arrived in Turkish capital Ankara.
• Turkey releases 9 more ISIS members 

  A Turkish court has released 9 people who had been detained several days ago in the Turkish city Antep before joining the ISIS in Syria.
• Some 30 detained in political operations 

  The AKP government is furthering its operations of political genocide across the country as it on the other hand continues murdering civilians in the Kurdish region.
• Iraqi Parliament: Turkish military occupier in Mosul 

  Reports came through that three divisions of Turkish troops crossed into Shexan and Bashika areas of Mosul late yesterday. The city of Mosul remains under ISIS occupation since June 2014.
• Father of young woman murdered by police: This is an execution 

  A woman has been killed during a house raid by police in Istanbul's Sancaktepe district.
• Many detained in operation against ESP and SGDF in 5 cities 

  A number of people have been detained as a result of an expansive police operation in Istanbul, Ankara, Amed, Hatay and Eskişehir this morning, which targeted executives and members of the ESP and the party's youth organisation SGDF.
• Turkey attacks Kurds to protect ISIS. What about Germany? 

  The German state continues subjecting Kurdish political activists to repression and criminalizing Kurdish institutions, as a result of which 6 Kurdish politicians have been arrested this year.
• Russia reveals details of ISIS-Turkey oil smuggling 

  As the crisis between Turkey and Russia gets deeper over the Russian plane downed by Turkey, Russian Ministry of Defense has released footage of the oil trade between Turkey and ISIS.
• ISIS members threaten Alevis in Antep 

  The neighborhood of Düztepe in Antep, which houses a large Alevi population as well as Hacı Bektaş Veli Association of Solidarity and Cemevi (Alevi place of worship), is under the threat of ISIS gangs.
• Another curfew in Sur 

  Yet another curfew has been imposed in six neighborhoods in the central Sur district of Amed where attacks by Turkish state forces have become constant.
• Demirtaş responds to Davutoğlu on murder of Tahir Elçi 

  HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş has responded to Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu who blamed the PKK for the shady armed attack that claimed the life of Amed Bar President Tahir Elçi in Amed on 28 November.
• Six children killed in fire in Kulp 

  A fire in Karaağaç village of Amed's Kulp district has left 6 children dead.
• IADL and ELDH call for international investigation into the murder of Elçi 

  IADL and ELDH called for an independent international investigation into the murder of Tahir Elçi and vowed to cooperate with its Kurdish and Turkish colleagues to bring justice for all victims of Turkish state terror.
• PKK guerrillas: We owe today to the martyrs of Kurdistan 

  Guerrillas from HPG (People's Defense Forces) and YJA-Star (Free Women's Troops) spoke to ANF about the meaning of today, 37th anniversary of founding of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party).
• Announcement by ANF 

  Fırat News Agency (ANF) administration has released a statement denying connection with dozens of social media accounts acting on its behalf.
• The PKK foundation in Sakine Cansız's words 

  The Kurdish Liberation Movement became a party following the first congress held in the Fis village of Diyarbakır’s Lice district on 26-27 November 1978.
• Russian airstrikes target the surroundings of Minbic 

  Reports are coming through that Russian jets have bombed the surroundings of Minbic town to the northeast of Aleppo which remains under the control of ISIS.
• A pilot of the downed Russian jet rescued 

  Syrian army troops have reportedly rescued one of the two pilots from the Russian jet downed by Turkey on Syrian border yesterday.
• Turkey downs a Russian warplane on Syria border 

  Turkey has downed a Russian warplane on Syria border on the grounds of violation of airspace”.
• Youth shot by police in Cizre dies 

  Rafet Aşut (23) who was shot by police in Şırnak's Cizre district on 9 November, has lost his life at hospital.
• KNK calls for a stance against Turkish aggression on Kurdish people 

  KNK urged everyone who believes in peace, stability, friendship, justice and democracy to support Kurds and make a stand against this brutal campaign waged to suppress Kurds into silence and surrender.