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• HDP requests general meeting to evaluate the policies of the government 

  HDP emphasized that the government was implementing policies that move away from peace, and requested a general meeting.
• Many detained in AKP's operations of political genocide 

  AKP government is continuing its operations of political genocide across North Kurdistan and Turkey.
• HDP submits resolution for the investigation of ‘ISIS activities’ in Turkey 

  HDP Urfa Parliamentarian Ziya Çalışkan offered a resolution for the investigation of ISIS activities and actions in Turkey.
• Police kill a woman in house-raid operation in Istanbul 

  Turkish police have killed a woman during today's expansive operation in Istanbul which targeted 140 addresses in 26 districts.
• Police operation in 26 districts in Istanbul 

  Turkish police forces raided 140 addresses in 26 districts of Istanbul early Friday morning.
• PM's office says Turkish jets hit ISIS positions in Syria 

  Turkish Prime Minister's Coordination Center said in a written statement regarding the operation at Kilis border that three ISIS positions in Syria were hit by Turkish air forces.
• Reports of clash between TSK and ISIS at Kilis border 

  It is reported that ISIS militants opened fire on Turkish soldiers at the border in Elbeyli district of Kilis Thursday afternoon.
• One policeman killed, another wounded in armed attack in Amed 

  An armed attack in Amed has targeted two police officers affiliated to Diyarbakır Security Directorate's Traffic Division in Şehitlik neighborhood of Yenişehir district Thursday afternoon.
• PAJK and PKK prisoners begin hunger strike for Suruç Massacre 

  PAJK (Kurdistan Women's Liberation Party, Partiya Azadiya Jin a Kurdistan) and PKK (Kurdistan Worker's Party) prisoners will go on a hunger strike between July 24 and 26 in order to protest Suruç Massacre.
• Pro-ISIS group attacks Kurds in Konya 

  In Karatay district of Konya province in Central Anatolia, supporters of the savage ISIS organization raided the house of Kurdish citizens and threatened them with beheading and bombing their houses.
• PKK: AKP does not only support ISIS, but also carries out massacres 

  PKK Executive Committee issued a statement on Pirsus (Suruç) massacre and said that the AKP government, supporting ISIS gangs in Kobanê massacre, carried out the massacre in Pirsus.
• Cinaklı, who was injured during contras’ attack, dies 

  After 45 days of treatment, Fesih Cinaklı lost his life yesterday due to his injuries caused by contra groups who had attacked HDP supporters after the murder of Yeni İHYA-DER President Aytaç Baran in Amed on June 9.
• Petition for Êzîdîs addressing Kurdistan Federal Government 

  A group named “Kurds and their Friends in Sweden” began a petition for the prosecution of officials responsible for failing to defend Êzîdîs in Shengal against ISIS attacks.
• Dozens die in two explosions in Nigeria 

  More than 40 civilians lost their lives in two bomb attacks targeting bus stops in Nigeria where clashes against Boko Haram gangs continue.
• Suruç Massacre condemned in the US 

  HDP volunteers and Pir Sultan Abdal Association members in the US protested the recent massacre in Suruç.
• Suruç martyrs laid to rest across Kurdistan and Turkey 

  Funerals of socialist youths who fell as martyrs during the suicide attack in Urfa’s Suruç district continue across North Kurdistan and Turkey.
• Turkey and Kurdistan stand up for revolutionary martyrs 

  Suruç Massacre protests continue across Turkey and Kurdistan. Protestors emphasize the collaboration between AKP and ISIS, and bring the state to account for the massacre.
• Amnesty International launches campaign for fair trial for Saman Naseem 

  Amnesty International has launched a campaign urging Iran’s Head of Judiciary to ensure that the authorities grant Saman Naseem a full and fair retrial according to international standards and without recourse to the death penalty.
• Two police officers found dead in Ceylanpınar 

  Governor of Urfa İzzettin Küçük stated that two policemen were found dead home in Ceylanpınar district of Urfa.
• YES and IUSY voice solidarity with Suruç and Kobanê 

  Young European Socialists (YES) and International Union of Socialist Youth (IUSY) have expressed solidarity with Kobanê and Suruç in the wake of yesterday's bloody bomb attack which left 32 people dead and over a hundred wounded.
• SYRIZA expresses solidarity with Turkish and Kurdish Left 

  SYRIZA expressed their horror and unspeakable sorrow for the barbaric bomb attack by fundamentalist islamists against dozens of members of the Federation of Socialist Youth Associations.
• ESP calls for ‘mass mobilization’ for the funerals of victims 

  Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP) issued a statement on Suruç massacre and called on people to join the funerals to bid farewell in a spirit of mass mobilization.
• Party of European Socialists urges all parties to join forces to combat ISIS 

  “The fact that a group of socialist young people in Turkey have been massacred as they prepared to volunteer in Syria, is so abominable that it is beyond belief", said Sergei Stanishev, Party of European Socialists (PES).
• Suruç massacre to be protested in Kurdistan, Turkey and abroad 

  Today's massacre in Suruç district of Urfa, which targeted socialist youths on their way to Kobanê and left dozens of casualties, the number of which is yet to be confirmed, will be protested in North Kurdistan, Turkey and Europe.
• Socialist youths of Turkey on their way to Kobanê 

  Members of the Socialist Youth Associations Federation (SGDF), which has been leading the “We defended Kobanê together, we will build it together!” campaign, are on their way to the war-torn town of West Kurdistan, Rojava, to help reconstruction.