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• Sinjar people in Batman pin their hopes on HDP 

  The candidates named by the HDP for Batman province of North Kurdistan have paid a visit to the tent city sheltering the Yazidi Kurds who fled their hometown in the face of savage attacks by inhumane ISIS gangs early August.
• Rojava General Coordination condemns Diyadin attack 

  The General Coordination of Rojava Cantons has issued a statement strongly condemning the attack of the Turkish army in Diyadin district of Ağrı province in Bakurê (North) Kurdistan.
• 12 detained as police conduct raids and terrorize Kurdish civilians 

  12 people have been detained as Turkish police raided houses in Yüksekova, Ceylanpınar and Kızıltepe. The number of detainees is expected to increase.
• People of Dersim trust neither AKP nor CHP 

  People of Dersim told that the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) is the only party to create solutions to the problems of Alevi people as well as of the other ethnic and religious communities in the country.
• Police raid vigil against Ilısu dam in Kerboran 

  Turkish police raided a vigil initiated in the Kerboran (Dargeçit) district of Mardin to protest at the recommencement of work on the Ilisu dam, which will submerge the ancient town of Hasankeyf.
• İmralı Delegation in Ağrı for observations at Tendürek 

  The İmralı Delegation has gone to Ağrı province of North Kurdistan in order to make an observation at Tendürek where the military operation of the Turkish army left two people dead on April 11.
• Demirtaş:Government does not care about those killed in Soma and Ağrı 

  HDP Co-president Selahattin Demirtaş said: "We must find a way to change this government. It doesn’t care about either the 301 miners who died at Soma, or those who died in Ağrı.”
• Önder invites PM to visit the operation area in Ağrı together 

  The successive statements of the TSK, increasing operations and the operation in Diyadin has raised further concerns over the ongoing resolution process between Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan and the Turkish state.
• Soma trial adjourned until 15 April 

  The trial of 45 people, 8 of them in custody, charged with responsibility for the mine disaster in Soma which resulted in the deaths of 301 miners, has been adjourned until 15 April after protests from widows of the miners.
• YPG operation in Minîfê Avî village 

  YPG/YPJ (People's/Women's Defense Units) have launched an offensive against ISIS gang groups in the village of Minîfê Avî to the southeast of Kobanê Canton of West Kurdistan, Rojava.
• Tuncel: Provocation in Ağrı instigated by AKP 

  HDP MPs Pervin Buldan and Sebahat Tuncel evaluated the incidents that took place in the Diyadin district of Ağrı at the weekend. A HDP delegation is to visit the province today.
• KNK condemns Turkish military operation in Ağrı 

  KNK has released a statement condemning the Turkish Armed Forces operation that began just before the Spring Festival and tree planting event that was scheduled to take place on Mount Tendürek in the Diyadin town of Ağrı on 11 April.
• Demirtaş: Operation in Ağrı is a provocation for the sake of more votes 

  HDP Co-president Selahattin Demirtaş made a speech at a solidarity dinner organised by the HDP’s Ankara branch at the Neva Palas Hotel, saying what took place in Ağrı on 11 April was an election provocation by the AKP government.
• YPG: 75 gang members killed in Cizîrê and Kobanê 

  The YPG Press Office has announced that 58 gang members have been killed in clashes in Cizîrê Canton since 8 April, while 17 others were killed in clashes with the ISIS gangs last night and today in Kobanê canton.
• Budak killed by Turkish soldiers laid to rest 

  Thousands bid farewell in Diyadin to former DBP Diyadin co-chair who went to the scene of an operation by the Turkish army as a human shield and lost his life as a result of the fire opened by soldiers from helicopter.
• Prof. Harvey: Rojava must be defended 

  Prof. David Harvey called for worldwide support for the alternative system to capitalism being established in Rojava.
• DBP delegation on the way to the operation area 

  A delegation of the DBP has left for the operation area in Ağrı where HDP Diyadin former co-chair Cezmi Budak and a guerrilla lost their lives as a result of fire opened by Turkish soldiers from helicopters yesterday.
• YPG launches operation to liberate Derfilitî village 

  Fighters of the YPG/YPJ (People's/Women's Defense Units) have launched an operation to liberate the village of Derfilitî in Kobanê Canton of West Kurdistan, Rojava.
• Construction of Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant to start on 14 April 

  The construction of the infrastructure of the Akkuyu Nuclear Power Plant is to be started on 14 April with a ceremony attended by the Energy Minister Taner Yıldız, despite protests and court complaints.
• Body of Cezmi Budak sent to Erzurum for post-mortem 

  Former co-chair of HDP Diyadin organisation Cezmi Budak lost his life as soldiers attacked the civilians in the area of a military operation in Ağrı yesterday.
• Shops closed in Ağrı to protest the military operation 

  Local people in Doğubayazıt and Diyadin districts of Ağrı have taken down the shutters today to protest against yesterday's military operation of the Turkish army at Mountain Tendürek.
• Different statements from Ala and Erdoğan on clashes in Ağrı 

  Former Interior Minister Efkan Ala and President Tayyip Erdoğan made contradictory statements about the clashes between HPG (People's Defense Forces) guerrillas and Turkish soldiers in a rural area in Ağrı province of North Kurdistan yesterday.
• Body of Budak killed by soldiers taken to hospital morgue 

  Body of former co-chair of HDP Diyadin organisation, Cezmi Budak, who was killed by Turkish soldiers in Ağrı today has been taken to Diyadin State Hospital's morgue.
• Turkish army launches another operation in Siirt 

  Turkish army has launched yet another military operation in Garisa region between Eruh and Pervari districts of Siirt province.
• Soldiers open fire on human shields in Ağrı, one killed, one wounded 

  While the clash in Ağrı is reported to be continuing, Turkish soldiers have attacked the civilians who went to the area of clashes to act as human shields in order for the operation to end without leaving casualties.