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• Conference: Challenging Capitalist Modernity IV 

  The Network for an Alternative Quest will hold its fourth "Challenging Capitalist Modernity" conference in Hamburg in April. The main topics of this year's conference will be "Autonomous Education and Organization".
• Anti-catholic sectarianism in North of Ireland 'alive and well' 

  A research commissioned by the Equality Coalition, the report’s author Dr Robbie McVeigh found that disparities still exist between Catholics and Protestants.
• Essay by Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands - SPECIAL FEATURE 

  An essay originally written by Bobby Sands in the H-Blocks of Long Kesh in 1979.
• A member of both ISIS and the AKP 

  Şengül Büyükçelebi, wife of ISIS jihadist Deniz Büyükçelebi, is both an ISIS member and active in the AKP Women's Association. Her husband is closely connected with the main perpetrator of the Ankara massacre.
• Impressions from Slovenia – Discussions on Revolution and Rojava 

  Internationalists have been to Slovenia to talk about Rojava, Jinwar and the Internationalist Commune. But they also learned a lot about Slovenia, and the history of the partisans.
• What did Turkey offer the HTS and why was it rejected? 

  The Turkish state has offered the terrorist organization HTS, which has come under pressure in Idlib, to dissolve and to move to the Turkish-occupied Afrin zone.
• Buldan: The crisis will deepen as long as the isolation continues 

  "The AKP has made the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan the basis for the continuation of its political system. If the isolation is not lifted, a massive crisis awaits us," warns HDP Co-chair Pervin Buldan.
• KCK: The conspiracy continues in the form of absolute isolation 

  KCK called on the Kurds and their friends to increase the struggle to crush the absolute isolation and defeat the conspiracy, to strengthen their organization and to make their resistance and actions permanent.”
• The International Conspiracy in Abdullah Öcalan’s words 

  In the book The Age of Masked Gods and Disguised Kings, Abdullah Öcalan well explained how the International Conspiracy was devised, why, and what were its consequences.
• Öcalan in Rome: An Italian internationalist remembers 

  21 years ago when Abdullah Öcalan stayed in Rome for a few weeks, thousands of Kurds came to the Italian capital. An internationalist remembers the atmosphere of that time, which no prison can destroy.
• Aldar Xelîl: Syrian regime’s willingness for dialogue is positive 

  Kurdish politician Aldar Xelîl of TEV-DEM explains that the Syrian government has signaled a willingness to engage in dialogue through Russian mediation. There are no concrete results yet, but the willingness to talk is a positive step, he says.
• Jihadists stationed in Idlib put on Turkish military uniforms  

  Turkey has switched to dressing jihadists in Turkish uniforms in the embattled Syrian region of Idlib and equipping them with armoured vehicles of the Turkish military.
• The Treaty of Lausanne and invasion 

  The Treaty of Lausanne has shaped the Kurdish struggle – from the Dersim rebellion of 1936 to the Turkish forces that are currently attacking Idlib and preparing for an invasion of Kobanê.
• PKK: Belgian ruling is the legal punishment of the plot 

  The PKK has commented on the decision of the Brussels Court of Cassation that it is not a "terrorist organisation" but a party in an armed conflict. The PKK interprets the ruling as a legal punishment for the plot against Öcalan.
• Turkey denies it, Swiss laboratory proves it used phosphorous 

  Rojava Defense Initiative has sent a sample of the skin of a Kurdish fighter wounded in Serekaniye to Swiss laboratories.
• YPG Commander Heleb: Kobanê was the beginning of the end for ISIS 

  A great hope for the peoples of the Middle East and the world, and the "beginning of the end" for ISIS and its collaborators. This was the victory of Kobanê.
• Five years ago, the liberation of Kobanê  

  Five years have passed since the historic liberation of Kobanê by the YPG and YPJ.
• "Help is not lent to the aggressor, but to the victims" 

  German Chancellor Angela Merkel has promised Turkey help in building accommodation for refugees in northern Syria. Salih Muslim finds clear words for this action: "Help is not lent to the aggressor, but to the victims".
• “The new caliph of ISIS is in Turkey” 

  ISIS member Taner Sabri Görenoğlu said that the new caliph of ISIS was in Turkey with his men.
• New ISIS head is Erdoğan sympathizer 

  ISIS prisoner Taner Sabri Görenoğlu comes from the close environment of the new ISIS chief al-Salbi. He tells about the sympathy of the head of the terror militia for Erdoğan and Turkey.
• Collaboration of the KDP with Turkey in Shengal 

  Last week four Yazidi fighters of the YBŞ were killed in a Turkish air raid on the Shengal region. The Turkish attacks there are also a result of the collaboration of the South Kurdistan’s KDP with the Turkish AKP regime.
• "We will not allow the Turkish forces to stay", say guerillas 

  YJA STAR guerrillas Sozdar Cudi and Rosida Botan, who are part of the Cenga Heftanîn Offensive, spoke to ANF.
• Hrant Dink murder: 13 years demanding justice 

  Today Agos editor Hrant Dink is being commemorated in many cities on the 13th anniversary of his murder. The center of the commemoration ceremonies is former Agos newspaper office in Şişli. The memorial will start at 3 pm (Turkish time).
• The Afrin resistance continues in Shehba 

  Afrin located near the border with Turkey and northwest of the city of Aleppo was a mostly Kurdish-populated city, but displaced Arabs, Turkmens and Yazidis also moved in seeking shelter from war.
• Mama Serhildan 

  Serhildan was a student when ISIS attacked Kobanê in 2014. She first joined the battle, fought, was injured and worked in the orphanage "Alan's Rainbow" after the victory in the city. The children call her "Mama" and even now she keeps her weapon handy.