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• Atabay: We need to fight self-assimilation to increase rate of those speaking in Kurdish 

  Education Sen Wan Branch Co-chair Murat Atabay said that while 90 percent of Kurds spoke Kurdish at home and on the street in the 1920s, today that rate has dropped to 7 percent.
• Öcalan's lawyers prepare to respond to Turkey's answer to UN  

  Asrın Law Office's application to the UN Human Rights Committee about the situation of Abdullah Öcalan and the 3 other prisoners in Imralı is pending. Lawyers are preparing to submit their response to Turkey's answer to the UN.
• Kalkan: Today's festival in Europe is very important, cultural events should be organized every day 

  Kalkan said that the Kurdish Culture Festival that will take place today in Germany is very important and added that in Europe "there should be cultural activities every day."
• Kalkan: Turkey identified an area to occupy and is attacking it, yet it's not getting any results 

  KCK's Duran Kalkan spoke about the attacks carried out by Turkey in South Kurdistan.
• Kalkan: Imrali is the continuation of the international conspiracy against Ocalan 

  Kalkan asked why international institutions responsible for Imrali [and the compliance with international law and human rights] remain silent as if they approve the Turkish administration.
• Turkish expansionist foreign policy has not changed 

  Hüseyin Dicle, member of the KCK Executive Council, comments on wrong claims that there would be a massive change in Turkish policies since the May 14 elections. He describes how the government tries to change its mask while pursuing the same policies.
• Preparations for a new invasion attack? 

  What does the fascist Erdoğan government want from Baghdad and Hewlêr? Is it making occupation plans for areas like Gare and asking for support for them? Is it also planning new attacks on Maxmur and Shengal? It is clear that the KDP is playing with fire.
• Elfriede Jelinek and Konstantin Wecker: Peace is more than a dream 

  “The warlords and politicians of this world cannot forbid our dreams, nor can they permanently prevent our attempts to make them a reality. Neither in Ankara nor in Tehran, neither in Moscow nor in Washington, Beijing or Berlin.”
• Asrın Law Office calls on CPT to "visit Imralı urgently" 

  Asrın Law Office has applied to the Committee for the Prevention of Torture to visit Imralı and Abdullah Öcalan urgently.
• The multiple faces of the revolution, a comment by the Internationalist Commune of Rojava 

  The Internationalist Commune of Rojava is running a series of comments from internationalists visiting Northern and Eastern Syria.
• In memory of the martyrs of the historic action against Haruna military base 

  In the course of the revolutionary people's war in 2012, the guerrillas inflicted heavy blows on the Turkish army in North Kurdistan. One of the most significant operations was the attack on the Haruna military base, which was completely destroyed.
• Cardenas: The ELN won't do what the FARC did 

  Olimpo Cardenas, member of the national committee of participation and the Peoples Congress, said that the agreement between the ELN and the Colombian government won't be like the one signed by the FARC.
• Korkmaz: Less than 3 percent of buildings damaged by earthquake demolished in Amed 

  Chamber of Civil Engineers Amed Branch co-chair Mahsum Çiya Korkmaz said that only 80 of the 3,200 buildings that were heavily damaged by the earthquake in Amed were demolished.
• Kalkan: The guerrilla ready to play its role more effectively in the 40th year of struggle 

  A new analysis by Duran Kalkan, member of the KCK Executive Council, about the latest developments in Kurdistan, the Middle East and the world, with a focus on the historical significance of August 15, 1984, and the importance of the guerrilla struggle.
• Karayılan: True freedom comes through the power of people and revolutionary people's war 

  “True freedom comes through the power of the people, the mobilisation of the people, the revolutionary people's war and all forms of political-social struggles for a democratic nation," said HSM Commander Murat Karayılan in an address on 15 August.
• 15 August 1984, the day the Kurds lit a fire of hope 

  15 August 1984 is an important date for the Turkish-Kurdish conflict as it marks the first PKK attack, led by Mahsum Korkmaz, known as Egîd.
• Kalkan: In Turkey, there is no opposition to war, no demand for peace 

  “After so many years, the war has entered its 40th year. This war is at the root of everything. How will there be brotherhood if the reality of war is not seen?” said Duran Kalkan of the KCK Executive Council.
• Kalkan: The Kurds are resisting against all of NATO, which has been waging the war since 1985 

  The breakthrough of August 15 and the resulting guerrilla resistance underlies all the libertarian democratic developments in Kurdistan during these 39 years, said Duran Kalkan of the KCK Executive Council.
• Peace in Kurdistan campaign: Self-Determination struggles in the 21st Century, global perspectives 

  Peace in Kurdistan and CAMPACC organize a seminar called 'Self-Determination Struggles in the 21st Century: Global Perspectives'.
• Xanim Eyo: Abdullah Öcalan's freedom is our freedom 

  Lawyer Xanim Eyo from North and East Syria spoke in Geneva and said that the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan and the attacks on Rojava have the same aim.
• Kalkan: The Turkish Republic was founded on the basis of Kurdish genocide and hostility 

  "Had it not been for the establishment of such a republic or the Treaty of Lausanne, perhaps there would have been no Hitler, no Mussolini, there would have been no Second World War in Europe, and humanity would not have suffered such massacres."
• Youth and the digital media of capitalist modernity 

  Firaz Dağ wrote: "It is imperative that we recognize that digital media are a tool of the system of capitalist modernity for the control and manipulation of youth and this has become increasingly clear over time."
• KONGRA GEL calls for an increase of struggle to mark 15 August anniversary 

  On 15 August, the Kurdish movement is celebrating an important anniversary. On this date in 1984, the PKK fired the first shot at the Turkish occupation. To mark the occasion, the KONGRA GEL called for an expansion of the fight.
• Crisis of construction sector deepening 

  The crisis experienced by the construction sector, which has been functioning as the locomotive of the Turkish economy in recent years, is deepening.
• Nine years ago the Yazidis genocide in Shengal 

  The 74th genocide arrived at the doors of the Yazidi community on 3 August 2014. The Islamic State killed, raped, kidnapped thousands in Shengal.