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• 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are streaming into Libya in two ways: one is sent through Turkey, the other through Russia. 2,000 of them have been withdrawn to Ankara for a mission in Southern Kurdistan.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.
• YJA Star guerrillas: Resistance will win! 

  YJA Star guerrillas Arin Hilvan and Ruken Serhat take part in the Heftanîn Revolutionary Operation.
• An HPG guerrilla in the Heftanîn Operation, Çekdar Amed 

  Çekdar Amed is one of the HPG guerrillas who resisted with great determination and believed in victory in Heftanîn.
• Lawyer Baran: Law is not working in Imralı  

  The aggravated isolation imposed Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan continues.
• Is the PKK the reason or the result? 

  It is not the existence of the PKK that is the reason why the Turkish state attacks Kurds, but the fact that the Turkish state attacks Kurds is the reason for the existence of the PKK, comments journalist Meral Çiçek from Sulaymaniyah.
• Revolutionary perspective on Corona and the ecological crisis 

  Different groups of the campaign "Make Rojava Green Again" in Northern Syria and six European countries express themselves in videos about a revolutionary perspective on Corona and the ecological crisis.
• Attack on Heftanin: A regional and international plan 

  Turkey has been attacking Southern Kurdistan for many years. Since 15 June, the occupation attacks have reached a new level. The invasion plan and its international actors are becoming clearer with every day.
• Ireland's new government: A shameful marriage of convenience 

  Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin is the new 26 County Taoiseach with 93 votes in favour, 63 against and three abstentions.
• Sweden must apologize to Kurds over killing of Olof Palme  

  Halis Ikincisoy, one of the Kurds who were detained in the process of blaming the PKK and Kurds for the murder of Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme, said that they expect Sweden to apologize to the Kurds.
• The PKK: Criminalizing Resistance, Resisting Criminalization 

  Jan Fermon is the Secretary General of the International Association of Democratic Lawyers. He has been defending Kurdish and progressive Turkish activists and organizations against both repression in Turkey and against criminalization in Europe.
• KCK: Turkey won’t be able to pit PUK and PKK against each other 

  "The people of Sulaymaniyah will respond to the Turkish state’s aggressiveness in the same way they have stood and fought against the colonialists and enemies of the Kurds so far," KCK underlined.
• KCK:Guerrilla will resist till the liberation of Kurdistan people 

  "With their resistance, the guerrilla shows not only the Turkish state and the friend and foe that this struggle will continue until a free Kurdistan and democratic Middle East is realized," said the KCK.
• Unwavering willpower: Heftanin 

  From the eyes of the fighters in Heftanin speaks the great anger against the occupation and the forces that are clearing the way for the occupiers. With superhuman effort they try to stop the Turkish state.