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• “Turkish army in alliance with ISIS” 

  Muhammed Toqan spoke of the dirty alliance of the Turkish state with ISIS and FSA gangs, and said that there were quite a number of ISIS members in Turkey.
• Murders of Brazil indigenous and invasion of their lands increase 

  According to a recent report, made by the CIMI (Missionary Indigenous Council) linked to the Catholic Church, the murder of indigenous people in Brazil has grown from 110 in 2017, to 135 during 2018.
• Murdered lawyer Pat Finucane remembered in Belfast 

  Sinn Féin Louth TD Gerry Adams spoke in Belfast at the launch of his publication: Pat Finucane; A Community Reflects. 
• Working at 75 to preserve tin making from disappearing 

  Muhammet Nezir, 75, has been a tin maker since his childhood. He said he would do this job until the end of his life so that tinnery would not disappear.
• Internationalist Commune presents Dêrik cultural and art center 

  "We can expand our understanding of this work, which is not only to defend art and culture, but also to fight back against the cultural genocide that imperialist forces are imposing on local cultures."
• Concert for Hasankeyf as new images from Ilisu Dam are released 

  While new images from the Ilisu Dam site which shows the growing dam reservoir, a cultural event for Hasankeyf and the Tigris River will take place in Istanbul on Saturday.
• Ayotzinapa, the bleeding wound of Mexico 

  Mexican officials have begun searching new sites for the remains of 43 student teachers,  including a dump near where they disappeared on the night between 26 and 27 September, five years ago.
• IMF suspends agreed delivery of US $ 5.4 billion to Argentina 

  The interim President of the IMF, David Lipton, declared that Argentina "would have to wait a while before resuming a financial relationship" with his agency.
• ISIS prisoner from Palestine: We were treated in Istanbul 

  SDF-detained Palestinian ISIS jihadist Muhammed Balusha claims that he was accommodated in an Istanbul ISIS house in 2016 and 2017 and, like other members of the terrorist militia, received medical treatment in a private hospital.
• The Butcher of Raqqa is awaiting trial 

  The SDF hold Anouar Haddouchi, a Belgian citizen member of ISIS, known for funding the Brussels and Paris massacres and known by the nickname 'The Butcher of Raqqa ’. Haddouchi wants to be tried in Belgium.
• YPG member and filmmaker Mehmet Aksoy remembered in London 

  Today the Kurdish community and Mehmet's many friends will remember him by paying a visit to his grave in Highgate Cemetery between 1 and 3 pm. 
• Criminalisation of Catalan independent movement continues 

  The Spanish police and justice insist on introducing the component of violence in the sovereign process of Catalonia.
• The ghost of dictator Franco still haunting Spanish society 

  The Spanish Supreme Court supported the Government's decision to transfer the remains of the dictator Francisco Franco.
• Yazidis in Armenia remember their dead  

  The Yazidi community in Armenia remembered their dead in the town of Armavir and Aygeshatt village. Religious scholars recited Qawl, the women sang lamentations.
• SDF Commander General: We will not accept Erdoğan’s threats 

  SDF Commander General Mazlum Abdi Kobanê stressed that they will take no steps outside of the agreement made.
• Portuguese ISIS member under SDF arrest for 6 months 

  Nero Saraiva from Portugal is one of the first European fighters to arrive in Syria and join the terrorist organization in 2012.
• HPG calls out to families of Turkish soldiers under their arrest 

  HPG Commander Mahir Deniz stated that the AKP-MHP government did nothing to reunite the Turkish soldiers under HPG custody with their families. Deniz said the government furthermore ignored this issue and avoided discussing it.
• Leyla Güven: Chaos is being organized again 

  Kurdish politician Leyla Güven said that visits to Abdullah Öcalan are no longer regularly approved and a chaos is organized: "If it continues like this, a coup mechanism mentioned by Öcalan could be set in motion again."
• Trees planted in Switzerland in memory of Rojava martyrs 

  Forest dedicated to the martyrs of the Rojava Revolution.
• PKK’s Karayılan: Nobody is abducted to join the guerrilla 

  Murat Karayılan of the PKK commented on the staged protests in front of the HDP headquarters in Amed, stressing that; "We are an ideological movement based on voluntary participation. We do not hold anyone against his will."
• 46 MEPs to Erdoğan: Election results must be respected  

  The Members of the European Parliament expressed concern at the new announcement by Erdogan of "further orders to remove elected officials.
• PKK’s Karayılan: Cizre massacre ordered by Erdoğan 

  Murat Karayılan of the PKK has commented on Ahmet Davutoğlu's knowledge of the bloody series of attacks between June 7 and November 1, 2015 in Turkey and North Kurdistan.
• Argentine justice reopens the case of Santiago Maldonado 

  The Federal Chamber of Comodoro Rivadavia ordered the reopening of the case on the disappearance and death of Santiago Maldonado, following the police intervention against a protest in the territory of the Mapuche Cushamen community, in August 2017.
• Wallerstein: The chaos will not go on forever 

  In his message to the Hamburg Conference where Öcalan’s ideas were discussed in 2012, Wallerstein summarized the current world order and proposed the ways out.
• A Sage of Our Times – Immanuel Wallerstein 

  Wallerstein stood firmly on the side of the oppressed people around the world. He was widely read in Kurdistan, and many of the concepts he developed over time have proved very influential on the thinking of freedom-loving people in the Middle East.