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• Lawyer Bilmez: The CPT confirms isolation in Imrali is deepening  

  Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan's lawyer Ibrahim Bilmez spoke about the CPT report on Imrali.
• The Kurdish Institute says Sweden must apologise to Kurds 

  The Stockholm Kurdish Institute sent a written application to the ministries demanding the Sweden government to apologize to Kurds and to remove the PKK from the list of terrorist organizations.
• 'Kurdish liberation struggle crucial for progress in Middle East' 

  Trevor Rayne from the Revolutionary Communist Group said the Kurdish liberation struggle is crucial for progress in the Middle East.
• Today is International Day of the World’s Indigenous People 

  As the world fights against the spread of the pandemic, it is more important than ever to safeguard indigenous peoples and their knowledge, says the UN.
• Lebanon is now more open to foreign intervention 

  What impact will the explosion that destroyed Beirut have on Lebanese politics and economy? What calculations do regional and international powers make? Kurdish politicians Bûşra Elî and Henan Osman, who live in Lebanon, answer these questions.
• Call to boycott Ford Otosan 

  Ford Otosan is the leading company in its market, producing 31% of civilian vehicles in Turkey, and holding 72% of the Turkish export market share.
• What is behind the Egypt-Greece maritime deal 

  Greece and Turkey have been discussing for decades over sea boundaries but recent discoveries of natural gas and drilling plans across the east Mediterranean have exacerbated the dispute.
• Sozdar Avesta: Returning to Shengal is the best answer 

  "The massacre committed by ISIS in Shengal on 3 August 2014 was planned by Erdogan and his collaborators. What happened in Shengal was the tragedy of the 21st century," says Sozdar Avesta of the KCK Presidential Council.
• Turkish 'coalition' helps ISIS members to escape 

  Some 68,000 people currently live in Hol Camp, including 30,000 ISIS jihadists with their families.
• Foza Yûsif: The Rojava Revolution is a milestone for women 

  On the occasion of the 8th anniversary of the 19 July Rojava Revolution, PYD Co-Presidency Council member Foza Yûsif talked to ANF.
• MIT conducts trade over ISIS women 

  According to a source from the security forces in the autonomous region of northeast Syria, the Turkish secret service MIT abducts ISIS women from internment camps to sell them to their families.
• Yûsif: The Rojava Revolution marks the Middle East renaissance  

  "ISIS, this enemy of humanity was defeated by the common struggle of all humanity. The revolution has greatly influenced humanity in terms of ideas, politics and culture."
• Call for participation in Rojava Revolution Days of Action 

  Women Defend Rojava, Internationalist Commune, Make Rojava Green Again and RiseUp4Rojava issued a statement inviting everyone to celebrate the Rojava Revolution on 18 and 19 July.
• AKP builds mosques in front of ruins of Armenian churches  

  The AKP government's hate policy towards different beliefs and cultures continues to show itself.
• The prison resistance of 14 July 1982, a source of inspiration 

  On 14 July 1982, Mehmet Hayri Durmuş, Kemal Pir, Akif Yılmaz and Ali Çiçek went on death fast. It would be a historic and inspiring resistance and its legacy is still very much alive today.
• Historic, seismic, left: The vote in the Basque Country & Galicia 

  Historic and seismic. Two adjectives that well describe what happened in the elections in the Basque Country and Galicia. But there is a third adjective which must be added as it properly qualifies the other two: left.
• The Sociology of Freedom by Abdullah Öcalan available in English 

  The Sociology of Freedom is a truly monumental work that gives profuse evidence of Abdullah Öcalan’s position as one of the most influential thinkers of our day.
• Palo talks about Palme murder and its consequences for Kurds 

  Zülküf Palo, one of the HPG commanders who had been detained in Sweden for a long time, talked to ANF about the murder, 34 years ago, of former Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme.
• Guerrilla Amara Roj, one of those who left their mark in Heftanîn 

  The cultural assimilation and physical genocide imposed on the Kurds for centuries continues through the employment of all imaginable techniques.
• Orhan Family: We won't give up the struggle for justice and truth 

  When Adnan Orhan was just 11 years old, his father, uncle and cousin were taken into custody and murdered. He knows that the perpetrator is the State, and that all governments cover this up. "We won't give up the struggle for truth and justice."
• "Turkey brings Syrian mercenaries from Libya to South Kurdistan" 

  Mercenaries from Syria are streaming into Libya in two ways: one is sent through Turkey, the other through Russia. 2,000 of them have been withdrawn to Ankara for a mission in Southern Kurdistan. They are paid with EU money.
• Memories of guerrilla Şîyar Gabar 

  German guerrilla fighter Jakob Riemer (Şîyar Gabar) lost his life two years ago in a Turkish airstrike on Çarçella in northern Kurdistan. Hêlîn Şîyar remembers him.
• 'Our presence scares the enemy', says guerrilla Tolhildan 

  YJA Star guerrilla Canfeda Tolhildan, located in Cenga Heftanîn, said that the invading Turkish army showed the attack organized on 16 June as targeting an area where guerrillas are, but in reality it targeted all the territories of South Kurdistan.
• In memory of internationalist Kevin Jochim 

  Internationalist Kevin Jochim died in Northern Syria in the fight against the ISIS five years ago. The Internationalist Commune of Rojava remembers him.
• Kongra Star publishes dossier on 3 women murdered in Kobanê 

  The dossier speaks about the role of Zehra Berkel, Hebûn Mele and Emîna Weysî, who were murdered in a targeted drone attack carried out by the Turkish state on 23 June in the village of Helincê, Kobanê.