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• Kurdish activists on hunger strike in Paris taken into custody 

  Four Kurdish activists on hunger strike outside the French parliament in Paris have been detained by police.
• Participants of Geneva-3 Conference becoming clear 

  Reliable sources told ANF that Geneva 3 Conference has been postponed for a few days due to some unresolved problems and Turkish state's ongoing efforts to hinder the participation of Kurds.
• ANHA: Turkish army has entered Jarablus 

  Hawar News Agency (ANHA) has reported that Turkish troops have entered Syrian territory through Jarablus border crossing Tuesday evening.
• Scholars in UK declare support for academics victimised in Turkey 

  Scholars associated with universities and higher education institutions in the UK and internationally have released an open letter of support for academics being victimised in Turkey.
• Academics for peace release another declaration 

  Over a thousand academics for peace who have been targeted intensely over the ‘We will not be a party to this crime' declaration, have released another statement in the face of the attacks they have faced for demanding peace against war.
• Media ban on blast at Sultanahmet Square 

  A media ban has been imposed on this morning's blast which hit the touristic Sultanahmet Square in the Turkish city of Istanbul.
• At least 10 killed in blast at Istanbul's Sultanahmet Square 

  A blast has occurred at the Sultanahmet Square in the Turkish city of Istanbul at around 10 a.m. Tuesday morning.
• Blast at Istanbul's Sultanahmet Square 

  A blast has occurred at Sultanahmet Square in the Turkish city of Istanbul Tuesday morning.
• Apoist Youth Initiative: 2 policemen killed in Istanbul 

  Apoist Youth Initiative has announced that two policemen were killed in an action conducted by their side in Istanbul yesterday.
• Families of Turkish officers arrested by guerrillas call for peace 

  Families of arrested Turkish officers have re-voiced their demand for an end to the ongoing war, for which they hold the AKP government responsible for freezing the process of resolution and escalating the war further every day.
• Turkish officers under arrest by guerrillas call for peace in the new year 

  ANF reporters have reached 8 of the Turkish officers who remain under arrest in guerrilla areas in South Kurdistan territory. Two of these are police officers, and the other six are members of the Turkish army.
• Once again Kurds are killed... 

  Turkish officials say they have started an operation to remove the trenches dug by PKK-affiliated youths in cities. Kurdish officials, on the other hand, say youths built up these barricades to protect themselves from the attacks.
• 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.