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• Rojava Representation Office opened in Sweden 

  A Representation Office of the Rojava, West Kurdistan administration has been opened in Sweden's capital city Stockholm with a ceremony attended by MPs, NGO representatives and hundreds of people from Kurdistan, Turkey and Sweden.
• Mandela's lawyer Essa Moosa in Paris to join the Vigil for Öcalan 

  The International İmralı delegation support group, which involves worldwide known names such as Essa Moosa, Noam Chomsky, Tarıq Ali and David Graber, will be in Strasbourg on April 18 and take over the Freedom for Öcalan Vigil.
• HRW: Prosecuting satirist mocks freedom of speech 

  German authorities should defend freedom of speech, even if the contents of the speech are offensive to some, and they should not afford heads of state greater privilege against provocative speech, Human Rights Watch said today.
• Kurdish youths occupy the CPT building in Strasbourg 

  A group of Kurdish youths has occupied the building of European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) in Strasbourg.
• Demirtaş on lifting of immunities: We will stand tall 

  “If the thieves, the plunderers stealing the nation’s money, and those who can’t find enough space to stash the loot will have immunity and ours will be lifted because of our ideas, that will be a medal of honor for us.”
• Jihadis' passage from Turkey to Syria continues 

  Russia’s Ceasefire Watch in Syria Center has announced that more than 150 gang members passed from Turkey to Syria’s Latakia region.
• War syndrome and Turkish society 

  An overwhelming majority of Turkish society thinks that its children are ‘fighting for the homeland’ in Kurdistan, just like Americans thought during the Vietnam War.
• Demirtaş starts talks in Oslo 

  HDP (Peoples' Democratic Party) Co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş is in Norway’s capital Oslo to conduct a series of meetings.
• Rojava cantons boycott the Syrian elections 

  The zones within the Democratic Autonomy Administration of Rojava, West Kurdistan don’t participate in the Public Assembly elections held in Syria today.
• MEPs: The EU must take action for the solution of Kurdish question 

  EP Socialist-Democrat Group Chair and European United Left Group Chair called upon the EU to take action for the solution of the Kurdish question.
• Democratic Syria Assembly: The upcoming Syrian election is illegitimate 

  Democratic Syria Assembly stated that the upcoming parliamentarian election in Syria would not be legitimate.
• Hate speech targeting Armenians from fascists in Stockholm 

  Racist people used the conflict between Armenia and Azerbaijan as an excuse to organize a provocative protest where calls for violence were made in order to create animosity among peoples.
• HDP committee headed by Demirtaş continues talks in Berlin 

  An HDP (Peoples' Democratic Party) committee headed by co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş continues their visits and talks in Berlin.
• Captured ISIS member: We planned the Grê Spi attack with Turkey 

  ISIS member captured in Rojava stated that Turkey and ISIS gangs decided on the Grê Spi attack following a meeting in Raqqa. The captured jihadi confessed that Turkish intelligence MİT supported them and attacked the YPG to protect ISIS.
• Thousands of PKK and PAJK prisoners demand transfer to İmralı 

  Deniz Kaya in the name of the PKK and PAJK prisoners who continue their indefinite hunger strike, announced they would not attend the contact and non-contact visits in April and May in line with their protest until their demands are met.
• “Urgent expropriation” order for 7 more Kurdish towns 

  The Turkish cabinet has issued a decree of “urgent expropriation” for some areas in Şırnak's Cizre and İdil districts, Mardin's Kızıltepe district, Hakkari's Yüksekova and Çukurca districts, Amed's Kayapınar and Bağlar districts.
• International committee to meet CPT and EC officials for Öcalan 

  A committee headed by Mandela’s lawyer Essa Moosa that wanted to visit İmralı on February 15 against the isolation of Öcalan but was obstructed by the Turkish state is having meetings in Strasbourg with CTP and EC.
• Confessions and call for help from an operations member in Nusaybin 

  There are several confessions about the casualties hidden by the state and the war crimes committed in Kurdistan in a letter published by Turkish journalist Nihat Özcan in his column.
• ISIS hands over the town of Rai to the allies of MİT 

  El Rai town in the gangs’ supply line Azaz is repeatedly changing hands among the gang groups allied with the Turkish state.
• House raids in Bolu: 2 executed, 2 youths' whereabouts unknown 

  Special operation police have killed two people in a house raid they conducted in the northern province of Bolu. The whereabouts and condition of two Kurdish students arrested in the raid remain unknown.
• Kurds welcome Davutoğlu in Finland: Murderer 

  Turkish Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu was protested by Kurds upon his arrival in Finland today.
• Dissociation emerges in Turkish special operations units 

  In the ongoing actions and clashes in North Kurdistan, hundreds of special police and gendarmerie members were killed and hundreds more were injured.
• Champigny Municipality declares Cizre “sister city” 

  The Municipality of Champigny has declared Cizre a “sister city” in solidarity with the Kurdish people and announced that they will support the “sister family” project.
• YPG-YPJ representation office opened in Prague 

  A representation office of Rojava's YPG/ YPJ (People's / Women's Defense Units) has been opened in Prague, capital city of the Czech Republic.
• Documents on Turkey-ISIS relations presented to the UN 

  The documents presented to the UN shed light on the illegal transfer of arms and ammunitions from Turkey to the parts of Syria under ISIS occupation.