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• HDP delegation leaves for Kandil 

  A delegation of People’s Democratic Party (HDP) has left for Kandil in order to have talks with the KCK executives regarding the peace process in Turkey.
• 17 year-old shot by police denied treatment in hospital 

  A police officer opened fire on a group of youths playing in the street, seriously wounding a 17 year old in Muradiye district of Van at 21:45 yesterday.
• 9 gang members killed in Sinjar 

  People’s Defence Forces (HPG) Sinjar Command and Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ) General Command have reported in a joint statement at least 9 ISIS members were killed in clashes in the last 24 hours in Sinjar, South Kurdistan.
• Body of Ivana Hoffmann handed over to her family at Nusaybin border 

  The body of Ivana Hoffmann, an internationalist revolutionary who lost her life in clashes in Til Temir, has been sent to Amed for hospital procedures following a ceremony at Nusaybin-Qamishlo border where her body was handed over to her family.
• Operations and clashes continue in Rojava 

  Clashes between YPG/YPJ forces and the ISIS gangs continue by extending in the cantons of Cizîrê and Kobanê of Rojava, West Kurdistan.
• HDP delegation to meet Öcalan at the weekend 

  HDP (Peoples' Democratic Party) İmralı delegation will pay a visit to Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan at the weekend.
• School at Sinjar Camp in Amed begins education 

  A school with 4 classes has just started to provide education for the Yazidi Kurds sheltered in the Fidanlık camp of the Yenişehir Municipality which has been turned into living space for the refugees from Sinjar.
• PYD co-president Muslim to speak at UK Parliament 

  A public forum entitled 'Kurdish progress - Kurds in Syria: From denial toward self-ruled governance model' will take place in the UK Parliament on 25 March.
• Dozens detained in house raids in Amed 

  A number of people were taken into custody as a result of house raids in Sur district of the main Kurdish city Amed late Wednesday evening.
• 2,700 people returned to Kobanê today 

  It has been reported that 2700 people from Kobanê have returned to their hometown today after crossing from the Mürşitpınar border gate.
• CHP Nusaybin branch members resign to join HDP 

  The chair and the all the members of the executive committee of the CHP have resigned from the party which they criticized for not developing policies to answer the expectations of the Kurdish people.
• Clashes continue in Sinjar 

  People’s Defence Forces (HPG) and Sinjar Resistance Units (YBŞ) Commands have reported in a joint statement that 5 ISIS gang members were killed in Sinjar in the clashes of last 24 hours.
• Hoffman’s body to be handed over to the family in Nusaybin 

  The body of MLKP fighter Ivana Hoffman (Avaşin Tekoşin Güneş), who has recently lost her life in Rojava, West Kurdistan, will be handed over to her family and friends at the border gate in Nusaybin district of Mardin.
• Needs increase in Kobanê as more people return 

  Following the liberation of Kobanê by the YPG/YPJ forces, around 30 thousand people have returned to the town despite the cautious statements and threats still remaining in the town.
• Jabhat Al Akrad members speak of ISIS brutality 

  Jabhat Al Akrad members who managed to flee ISIS prison in Bab, where they had been held since taken captive by the gangs months ago, told ANF about the brutality of the ISIS.
• 41 gang members killed in Kobanê and Til Hemis 

  YPG Press Centre said in a written statement that YPG/YPJ fighters continued their operations against ISIS-held regions in the rural areas of Kobanê on the 176th day of resistance going on in the phase of victory.
• Balance sheet of Til Hemis–Til Berak operation released 

  The operation to liberate the towns of Til Hemis-Til Berak and surrounding rural areas was launched on 21 February and successfully completed on 9 March.
• First school opened in Kobanê 

  As part of the reconstruction works in Kobanê, a primary school has been opened under the leadership of 10 teachers who had been providing education in the schools in the town before the attacks of ISIS gangs began.
• Three villages liberated in Kirkuk 

  HPG reported that an operation has been launched against the villages held by ISIS in the hamlets of Til Werdê and Dubiz in the south of Kirkuk city in South Kurdistan.
• March against the destruction of nature in Hasankeyf 

  Members of the Party of Democratic Regions (DBP) Batman Youth Assembly has organised a protest march against the construction plans of hydroelectric power plants and dams in Hasankeyf.
• Syriacs in Midyat protest Khabour massacre 

  Syriac people living in Midyat district of Mardin in North Kurdistan have taken to the streets in protest of the attacks of the ISIS gangs on around 35 Syriac villages in an attempt to perpetrate a massacre in Heseke town of Rojava on 23 Feb.
• First hearing in Soma mine disaster case in April 

  The first hearing in the case on Soma mine disaster that claimed the lives of 301 miners in May 2014 has been set to take place at Bülent Çiğeroğlu Culture Centre Hall on 13 April.
• Operation in South Kirkuk 

  Guerrilla and peshmerga forces have launched a joint operation this morning at 06:00 local time to cleanse the southern areas of Kirkuk city in South Kurdistan of the ISIS gangs.
• Racist attack on Kurdish students in Ankara 

  Kurdish university students staying at Credit and Dormitories Institution (KYK) in Polatlı district of Ankara were assaulted by a racist group yesterday evening.
• Resistance vigil continues at Kobanê border 

  While the operations of YPG/YPJ fighters to liberate the entire territory of Kobanê continues on all fronts, the vigil held in support of the Kobanê resistance at the border villages of Suruç is also ongoing in its 175th day.