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• 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.
• 'The reconstruction of Kobanê' conference in Amed on 2-3 May 

  The first conference on the reconstruction of Kobanê in the aftermath of the heroic victory against ISIS will be organised in the main Kurdish city Amed in May.
• PACE to support reconstruction of Kobanê 

  The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) has called on member countries to support the reconstruction of Kobanê.
• ABDEM: The Turkish state must apologise for the genocide 

  The European Peace and Democracy Assembly (ABDEM) has urged the Turkish state to recognize the 1915 genocide committed against the Armenians, Assyrians, Syriacs, Chaldeans and Pontus Greeks.
• AKP refusing to hand over bodies of martyred YPG fighters to families 

  The Turkish authorities are no longer handing over the bodies of YPG/YPJ fighters who lost their lives in Kobanê to their families, claiming funerals are being used as election propaganda.
• Resignations from AKP continue in Kurdish cities 

  The resignation of party members from the ruling party AKP continues in Kurdistan as there is strong criticism regarding the candidates of the party in Kurdish cities.
• Preparations being made for a second Roboski 

  After Turkish troops opened fire on a group of people carrying out cross border trade in Uludere district of Şırnak province, Serhat Encü from Mergeh (Yermişli) told ANF that the state is preparing the ground for a second Roboski massacre.
• Soldiers open fire on civilians in Roboski 

  Turkish troops continue attacks and provocation attempts in the village of Roboski in Uludere district of Şırnak which witnessed the massacre of 34 Kurdish civilians in a Turkish bombardment on 28 December 2011.
• Austria recognises Seyfo (Syriac genocide) 

  The Austrian Parliament has recognised the genocide perpetrated by the Ottoman Empire against the Armenians, Syriacs and Pontus Greeks and condemned it. Austria is the 6th country to recognise the 1915 Syriac genocide, called “Seyfo”.
• Many workers injured in blast at Silvan Dam 

  A number of workers have been injured, including 3 seriously, in a blast which occurred as a result of coal gas compression in the water transmission tunnel of Silvan Dam today.
• 10 youths detained in house raids in Batman 

  Operations of political elimination against Kurdish population are continuing.
• Blast in Silvan Dam tunnel 

  A blast has occurred in the tunnel of the Silvan Dam Tuesday morning.
• Soldiers open fire on civilians, three wounded 

  Three civilians were wounded after Turkish soldiers opened fire on local people in Yemişli village at the border in Uludere district of Şırnak.
• PACE sending 60 members to monitor 7 June elections 

  The Parliamentary Assembly of the Council of Europe (PACE) is to send 60 parliamentarians to monitor the 7 June elections in Turkey and North Kurdistan.
• Jailed peace envoy Aysel Doğan seriously ill 

  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, and who later was arrested in the scope of KCK operations, has been taken to hospital with a serious illness.
• YPG: 3 more villages liberated 

  YPG Press Centre said that the Kobanê resistance against the occupation attempt of ISIS gangs continued on the 217th day.
• Support for HDP across Europe growing 

  The support for the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in the upcoming elections to be held on 7 June in Turkey and North Kurdistan is growing in Europe as well as in Turkey as the election campaign of the party gains momentum.
• Hunger strike in Midyat against 1915 Sayfo genocide 

  A hunger strike will be staged in Midyat district of Mardin to protest the centenary of 1915 Syriac (Sayfo) genocide the Ottomans started against Syriacs and Armenians in Van, Bitlis and surrounding areas, then Diyarbakır, Hakkari and Tur Abdin.
• Political prisoner in Balıkesir on hunger strike 

  Political inmate İnan Şimşek in Burhaniye Prison in the western province of Balıkesir has been on hunger strike for the last 10 days.
• HDP flags burnt by fascists 

  HDP party flags draped on two party offices in Istanbul have been burnt by fascists. The HDP offices in Güngören and Kadıköy districts were attacked in the early hours of the morning.
• Racist provocations against HDP continue 

  Attacks on HDP election offices are continuing. State supported fascist groups attacked HDP offices in the Reyhanlı district of Hatay and the Fındıklı district of Rize after the attack in Antalya and the gun attack on the HDP HQ in Ankara.
• ‘HDP's exceeding the threshold will open a new era in Turkey’ 

  In Strasbourg yesterday Evrensel newspaper writer İhsan Çaralan spoke at a meeting on ‘democracy, secularism and Islamophobia’, saying that if the HDP exceeded the electoral threshold a new era would open up.
• Teachers in East Kurdistan take to streets for their rights 

  Teachers have taken to the streets in many cities of East Kurdistan demanding an end to all kinds of discrimination and a decent salary.
• Syriacs to protest 1914-1915 genocide for the first time 

  Syriacs living in the Midyat district of Mardin province are preparing a rally on 24 April in protest at the genocide perpetrated in 1914-1915. They will for the first time protest the genocide that they suffered alongside the Armenians.