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• Will Geneva 3 also be without the Kurds? 

  BM spokesperson Ahmed Fevzi has announced that a third Geneva summit is to be held on 4 May. The two previous summits have failed to find a solution to the conflict in Syria.
• Armed attack targets HDP election office in Yalova 

  Attacks on HDP (Peoples' Democratic Party) offices are increasing before the upcoming elections to take place in Turkey and North Kurdistan on 7 June.
• Swiss MP Jeans: Struggle for humanity being waged in Rojava 

  Swiss Socialist Party (SP) MP Beat Jeans said the PKK was a freedom movement, adding that the Kurds in Rojava are waging a struggle to protect human values. “The Rojava system is the only alternative model for the Middle East,” he said.
• Another attack on HDP office in Istanbul 

  The election office of the HDP (Peoples' Democratic Party) in Pendik district of Istanbul was attacked by unidentified assailants last night.
• Turkish soldiers kill another man from Rojava 

  It came out that Turkish soldiers killed a man from Rojava at the border on 11 April.
• Police attack HDP march condemning Armenian Genocide 

  Turkish police have attacked the people joining a protest march organized by the HDP Istanbul branch to mark the 100th year of the Armenian and Syriac Genocide of 1915.
• Khabour Defense Forces Commander laid to rest 

  Khabour Defense Forces Commander Davud Cindo who lost his life as a result of an armed attack on Til Temir road on 21 April has been laid to rest today.
• YPG: 48 gang members killed 

  As the resistance in Kobanê canton continues, the YPG Press Centre has issued a statement saying 48 ISIS gang members have been killed in recent clashes in villages to the south of Kobanê city and in Cizîrê (Jazireh) canton.
• Military operation in Şemdinli 

  Turkish army has started an operation in the Mamreş-Berox-Serekanî region in Şemdinli district of Hakkari.
• Mayday to be celebrated in Kurdistan in Batman 

  The Confederation of Public Service Unions (KESK) Amed (Diyarbakır) branch platform has announced that Mayday this year will be celebrated in Batman and called on people to attend.
• Turkish soldiers kill a man from Efrîn, wound two others 

  Turkish soldiers opened fire on three people from Efrîn grazing their sheep on Rojava side of the border, leaving one dead and the other two wounded.
• KONGRA GEL calls on Turkey to end denial of Armenian genocide 

  Kurdistan People's Congress (KONGRA GEL) has said that they shared the sorrow of Armenian genocide, and called for solidarity with the Armanian people.
• HPG guerrilla wounded in Ağrı dies 

  People's Defense Forces Press Centre said that HPG guerrilla Delil Dozvan (Yıldırım Bat) who was wounded in the operation of the Turkish army at Tendürek in Ağrı on 10 April has lost his life.
• Delegation from Kobanê holds talks at Austrian Parliament 

  Kobanê Foreign Affairs Deputy Head İdris Nassan and Health Council President Nassan Ahmad held talks at the Austrian Parliament regarding the reconstruction of the war-torn city in West Kurdistan, Rojava.
• Jailed peace envoy Aysel Doğan diagnosed with cancer 

  Aysel Doğan, who had come to Turkey from Europe as a member of the Peace Group on the call of the Kurdish Leader Abdullah Öcalan in 1999, but was arrested in the scope of KCK operations, has been diagnosed with ovarian cancer.
• Operations of political elimination continue in North Kurdistan 

  Political detentions and arrests continue increasingly in North Kurdistan in the pre-election period.
• Rojava flag waves on Rome Municipality 

  The municipality of Italian capital Rome hung a banner of Rojava on its building after accepting to become the sister municipality of Kobanê Municipality.
• One killed, another injured in armed fight between AKP members 

  A quarrel between AKP members in an election office in Batman turned into an armed fight, leaving one dead and one other injured.
• Demirtaş meets Iraqi President Fuad Masum 

  HDP (People's Democratic Party) Press Office reported that Co-President Selahattin Demirtaş has today met Iraqi President Fuad Masum who is in Turkey for talks with officials.
• Police hinder funeral for YPG fighter in Erzurum 

  Police teams have attacked people in a convoy carrying the body of martyred YPG fighter Mahpus Güzeller in Hınıs district of Erzurum, arguing that the funeral will be used to “spread propaganda”.
• Soldiers attacked civilians at Roboski border 

  Tensions rose in the village of Roboski as Turkish troops, who have been active in the region for the past two months, were preparing for an operation against the positions of HPG guerrillas in Federal Kurdistan Region.
• HDP candidates open election offices in Dersim 

  HDP Dersim general election candidates Edibe Şahin and Alican Önlü opened an election office in the Pertek district of Dersim yesterday.
• More than 600 children died due to neglect in Turkey in 2014 

  The Gündem Children's Association has issued a report, saying that in 2014 at least 627 children died in Turkey and North Kurdistan in preventable incidents.
• Military operation in Hakkari 

  Turkish army has launched an operation targeting guerrilla areas in the rural areas of Esendere at the border of Hakkari's Yüksekova district at 8 am today.
• YPG: 16 gang members killed in Kobanê and Cizîre 

  YPG Press Centre said that the Kobanê resistance against the occupation attempt of ISIS gangs continued on the 219th day.