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• Wrath of Euphrates Spokesperson: No stopping before Raqqa is free 

  Wrath of Euphrates Operation Room Spokesperson Cihan Shekh Ahmed: “Our operation continues successfully. Both our people and our fighters have high morale. For us, there is no stopping before Raqqa is free.
• KCK's Sozdar Avesta: The Êzidî people know their enemy well now 

  KCK executive Sozdar Avesta asked the Êzidî people to not fear anything anymore, stated that the YBŞ is with them and called on the youth to join the ranks of freedom. She said KDP used money sent for aiding the Êzidîs for spying activity.
• Michael Rubin: Erdoğan has become a dangerous joke 

  Michael Rubin stated that: “Turkish nationalism and Erdogan’s religious rhetoric are no substitute for reality. Neither can deliver a successful economy or powerful Turkey.”
• Internationalist fighters in Shengal: We are here on our free will 

  Swedish internationalist fighter who was claimed to be detained by the YBŞ according to the Swedish Aftonbladet newspaper and media outlets such as Rudaw and K24 spoke to ANF and rejected the accusations.
• Turkey is pushing its luck 

  Turkey has lost in Syria and has been worn out in domestic politics, and has returned to their plan pursued since 2012 of achieving results through gangs in Syria.
• Strategic significance of Tabqa 

  With the liberation of Tabqa city and the Tabqa Dam, the corridor to Aleppo will be closed. The Turkish state’s logistical and military support line to ISIS and SNC gangs will be broken. Thus ISIS will enter the period of annihilation.
• PYD's Muslim: The US and Russia may tell Turkey to 'get out of Syria' 

  PYD Co-President stated that Russia and the US may have reached an agreement in order to get Turkey out of Syria. He said Russia built a base in Efrîn in order to fight gang groups and that the relations between the PYD and Moscow continue as before.
• Turkish army counts on toy balloons to track guerrillas 

  The Turkish army is counting on toy balloons with installed tracking devices in them which they randomly scatter around in Medya Defense Zones in order to monitor the movement of guerrillas.
• Bayık: With the spirit of Newroz, we will definitely win – PART III 

  KCK executive Cemil Bayık: Kurds are the only folk that will show the way out of the current crisis and chaos in ideological and political sense. There can be no victory and Kurds would get crushed without giving a fight in this process.
• KCK's Bayık: Turkey has lost in Syria - PART II 

  KCK's Bayık: Kurds in Syria will either be completely crushed, silenced, murdered in massacres and suppressed - which is out of the question - or the Kurds’ existence, identity, culture, self-government and political will have to be recognized.
• Tabqa within range for Wrath of Euphrates Operation Room fighters 

  As operations against ISIS accelerate, total takeover of Tabqa and Raqqa is only days away. We put together this article on the significance of Tabqa, one of the most strategic locations in the area, for all forces.
• Bayık: If SDF liberates Raqqa, Turkey's influence will wane – PART I 

  KCK's Bayık pointed out that no project that excludes Kurds will accomplish in Syria. He said the US and Russia do not want Turkey to enter Manbij, noting that the US doesn't trust Turkey with regard to its policy on Syria.
• ISIS friends, YBŞ enemies? 

  YBŞ are forces comprised of the children of Shengal who resisted ISIS with whatever weapons they could get their hands on despite the KDP gathering their weapons as ISIS attacked Shengal on August 3.
• Karayılan: Guerrilla will show everyone they are invincible 

  Karayılan: With the new period of struggle starting with Newroz 2017, Leader Apo’s and Kurdistan’s march to freedom will prevail. On this basis, the future will belong to the people of Kurdistan.”
• Shengal attacks cause falling out 

  On March 3, attacks on Shengal by gangs prepped and trained by AKP and KDP started. On the same day, 80 peshmerga were taken by KDP intelligence and taken to Duhok and Zakho to be questioned because they don’t want war.
• Confessions by SNC Spokesperson on SNC and ENKS’s 5 year disgrace 

  SNC's Revolution Council High Assembly Official Spokesperson Att. Fadıl Muhammed Selim spoke to ANF on the disgrace of Turkey-led SNC and ENKS, and how they spend all their energy to be against the Rojava revolution.
• Mercenary gangs KDP and RTE call peshmerga 

  AKP/KDP gangs attacking YBŞ and YJŞ fighters are revealed to be mostly former members of gangs Azadî, Silehedîn and Silehedîn’s Grandchildren who attacked Aleppo, Qestel Cindo and Serêkaniyê before.
• SDF commander: As the descendants of Kawa, we will resist tyranny 

  “Like Kawa the Blacksmith rose up and declared victory with the Newroz bonfire to save the Kurdish people from tyranny, we as the descendants of Kawa the Blacksmith will resist tyranny imposed upon the peoples of the Middle East.”
• Erdoğan is letting ISIS terrorists loose on Europe 

  It is becoming clear that the explosions starting after Erdoğan threatened European countries was not a coincidence. It has come to light that ISIS terrorists have been sent to Europe over Turkey after the threats.
• Karasu: This Newroz must be an uprising against genocidal colonialism 

  KCK's Karasu: Newroz 2017 must be a Newroz of embracing the Kurd and our existence, and rising up against the genocidal colonialist attacks on our existence, as would befit the historic importance.
• YPG volunteer from the UK calls for support for the Kurdish struggle 

  YPG volunteer Aiden Aslin from the United Kingdom called on the international community to support the Kurdish struggle, remarking that they would have been in Raqqa already had Turkey not been involved.
• SDF fighters: YPG is the soul of this resistance 

  SDF fighters that chant the slogan "Long Live YPG" after every confrontation say: "YPG is the soul of this resistance. We are forces of the SDF but spiritually we also see ourselves as YPG."
• All humanity should oppose the invaders of Shengal 

  KDP’s operation on Shengal is to break the will of the Êzidîs and to suppress them. KDP wants the Êzidîs to just comply with whatever they demand like in the past. The Êzidîs have always faced genocides throughout history.
• KDP gangs in 3 examples 

  The identities of just 3 people who took part in the KDP-AKP gangs’ attack on Êzidî forces in Khanasor is enough to show why they deserve the phrase “gangs” rather than “peshmerga”.
• KCK's Bayık: Defending Shengal is our humane, moral and national duty 

  KCK's Bayık: All must know that our Êzidî people are not alone. Like we defended them against ISIS attacks, from now on all who attack the Êzidî people will have to face us. This is our moral, humane and national duty.