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• 21-year-old murdered by police in Mersin 

  Police forces attacked the people who took to the streets in the southern province of Mersin yesterday evening to protest the ongoing state terror in the Kurdish region.
• Kurdish delegation meets Russian FM Lavrov in Moscow 

  A Kurdish delegation is having a meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov in Moscow today.
• 15-year-old killed by police in Tarsus 

  Ongoing attacks by Turkish security forces against civilians claim more lives every day.
• Police kill two women in a house raid in Istanbul 

  Police teams raided a house in Karadeniz neighborhood of Istanbul's Gaziosmanpaşa (GOP) district last night. Two women in the house were killed.
• Police attack demos in Amed, İstanbul and İzmir 

  As the heavy onslaught by state forces continues expanding across the Kurdish region, people who take to the streets to protest the state terror are also targeted by severe repression by police forces.
• Dozens including co-mayor of Akdeniz detained in Mersin 

  Police have conducted an expansive raid operation in the southern province of Mersin and its Tarsus district today.
• More protests against AKP terror in the Kurdish region 

  More demonstrations are being held across the country to protest the AKP government's terror in the Kurdish region of the country, Northern Kurdistan.
• 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).