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• 5 gang members killed in Sinjar 

  5 ISIS members were killed and one other was captured alive in clashes in Sinjar.
• Hunko: Deputies from all parties want PKK ban lifted 

  Prior to tomorrow’s debate in the German Federal Parliament on the PKK ban, Die Linke (Left Party) deputy Andrej Hunko said deputies from all parties wanted the ban lifted, but the state security apparatus wanted to maintain it.
• Prison sentence for Kurdish journalist Özgür Amed condemned 

  Kurdish journalist and writer Özgür Amed has recently been sentenced to 3 years, 1 month and 15 days in prison.
• DISK Secretary General and workers detained in Istanbul 

  Police assaulted and detained a number of workers who occupied the administrative building of Maltepe University Medical Faculty Hospital in Istanbul this morning.
• First images from the villages liberated in Til Hamis 

  YPG/YPJ (People's/Women's Defense Units) have liberated a number of villages in an operation they carried out around Til Hemis.
• MLKP fighter martyred in Kobanê 

  Marxist-Leninist Communist Party of Turkey (MLKP) fighter Emre Aslan, nom de guerre Alişer Dersim, has lost his life in Kobanê.
• Families of Kurdish martyrs meet in Frankfurt 

  Association of Families of Martyrs' in Germany held an interim meeting at Democratic Kurdish Society Center in the city of Frankfurt.
• Arrest warrant for Fettullah Gülen and journalist Emre Uslu 

  Istanbul 3rd Court of Peace has issued an arrest warrant for Fethullah Gülen and journalist Emre Uslu within the framework of the ongoing investigation regarding the wiretapping of 101 people.
• HDP European Election Campaign Coordination set up 

  A People’s Democratic Party (HDP) European election campaign coordination has been set up to carry out work for the upcoming general election in Turkey and North Kurdistan to be held on 7 June.
• Bahçeli: Turkish army acted under the guidance of PKK 

  Nationalist Movement Party (MHP) General President Devlet Bahçeli strongly reacted to the moving of the Suleyman Shah tomb to a YPG-held area in Kobanê town of West Kurdistan, Rojava.
• Military operation in Savur 

  Turkish army has started an operation in rural areas in Savur district of Mardin.
• Anlı: Number of the Kurdish schools must be increased 

  Amed co-mayor Fırat Anlı drew attention to the threats still being faced by the Kurdish language, saying that the number of the schools providing education in Kurdish must be increased.
• Iranian army shells Kandil area 

  Iranian army shelled Kandil area with mortars and howitzers last night.
• Demirtaş: Turkey should cooperate with PYD 

  HDP Co-president said that the operation for Suleyman Shah tomb has once again proved that the Turkish government's policy on Syria is based on faults and mistakes.
• Karayılan: Suleyman Shah Tomb operation - neither success nor victory 

  PKK Executive Committee member Murat Karayılan said the operation to move the tomb of Suleyman Shah had involved the approval of the PYD and YPG, adding that the Turkish state had also reached agreement with ISIS to ensure there was no intervention.
• Remzi Kartal: Hard work needed for electoral victory 

  Kongra-Gel co-chair Remzi Kartal said at a meeting in Amsterdam regarding the June general election in Turkey that a deliberate manipulation is at work concerning the electoral threshold that HDP faces.
• HDP delegation visits KCK executives in Kandil 

  A delegation of the HDP (Peoples' Democratic Party) has gone to Kandil for a meeting with KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) executives.
• Yüksek: YPG gave AKP government lesson in humanity 

  DBP Co-president Kamuran Yüksek said the AKP Government, with the draft ‘internal security’ law which is currently being debated in the Turkish parliament, wishes to abolish the constitutional right to protest.
• YPG and Turkish flags wave at the new site of the tomb 

  Flags of the Turkish state and the YPG/YPJ are waving in the village of Ashme where the tomb of Suleyman Shah is set to be relocated.
• Tent city for 1,000 people to be set up in Kobanê 

  Work has started to set up a new tent city with a capacity for 1,000 persons to the west of Kobanê for the families whose houses have been devastated in the war.
• March in Cologne against PKK ban 

  A large group of Kurdish people and their political friends held a march in Cologne on 21 February to protest the ban on the PKK.
• Tomb being moved to village under YPG/YPJ control 

  Preparations are continuing for the tomb of Suleyman Shah to be relocated in the village of Ashme, which is in the Canton of Kobanê. The village is under the control of YPG/YPJ forces.
• Buldan: Security bill is against human rights 

  Debate in the Turkish parliament on the internal security bill prepared by the AKP government continues while the opposition parties, primarily the People’s Democratic Party (HDP), is strongly opposing the bill.
• Joint operation by YPG and Turkish army on Tomb of Suleyman Shah 

  The Turkish army has carried out a joint operation to evacuate the Tomb of Suleyman Shah with YPG forces after the Kobanê Canton Defence Ministry issued permission for Turkish troops to cross into Kobanê.
• 10 articles of the internal security package approved 

  The first 10 articles of the controversial 'internal security package' were approved in Parliament earlier Sunday.