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• Öcalan’s warning to Afrin to prepare weapons and stock ammunition 

  Öcalan saw the Turkish state’s threats against Afrin three years ago and warned: “Today is not the day to build textile workshops, it is the day to build workshops for arms and ammunition, to create war communism and to root it in society.”
• YPG’s message to the Turkish state on Afrin: “You are dreaming” 

  YPG Spokesperson Nuri Mehmud stated that after turning armed groups into a bargaining chip by acting as the merchant in the Arab Spring, the Turkish state is now negotiating Afrin against Idlib.
• YPG Commander General Sipan Hemo: Afrin war will be the final 

  Regarding Turkey’s attempt to invade Afrin and Manbij, YPG Commander General Sipan Hemo said: “We will free the region of Erdoğan menace just like our YPG/YPJ forces cleared the region of ISIS.”
• Shirin Ebadi: People want a referendum in Iran 

  Shirin Ebadi stated that economic reasons sparked the protests in Iran and Rojhilat, then political demands allowed them to continue, and now the people want a referendum for a democratic administration.
• Importance of Afrin and why the Turkish state wants to attack it 

  Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) issued a call in order for the protection of Afrin against external attacks.
• YPG's Gifford: SDF fights for democracy, equality and their homes 

  Macer Gifford: “The future of Rojava is incredibly bright and we need the whole world to come together and actually start supporting the local groups that are representing people, and we have got a real chance for peace.”
• Moslem: Should Efrîn be attacked, the war will spread into Turkey 

  TEV-DEM foreign relations official and former PYD leader Saleh Moslem warned that if there’s an attack on Efrîn, the war will spread into Turkey. He said: "When Kurds achieve their national unity, they will become an important force in the Middle East."
• Karasu: Erdoğan ordered, MİT perpetrated the murder of Sara 

  Referring to the assassination of Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez in Paris on January 9, 2013, PKK Executive Committee member Mustafa Karasu stated that the triple murder was perpetrated by direct order of Turkish President Erdoğan.
• Who is Sebahattin Asal, the man behind the Paris killings? 

  Tayyip Erdoğan is certainly no ordinary politician or administrator. He is a dictator and a despot who wants to implement a fascist genocidal system he has conceived for himself.
• Comte: MİT administrators’ statements are important for the case 

  Lawyer of the Cansız, Doğan and Şaylemez case stated that the case will continue with different arguments, adding: “If statements by the MİT administrators KCK holds confirm the documents the French prosecutor has, they'll be very important for the case."
• ISIS’ desperate militants seek salvation in Turkey 

  Many ISIS terrorists that attempted to cross the border into Turkey to go to European countries or just to live in Turkey have been prevented by YPG’s Anti-Terror Units.
• What did the MİT administrators PKK holds say? 

  Information provided by the two MİT regional officials captured in Cizre last year (identities not announced) and the MİT members captured in Dukan were compared and clarified. KCK states that these efforts took five months.
• Moment MİT officials were captured by HPG - UPDATE 

  ANF has obtained footage from the moment two Turkish intelligence MİT officials were captured by HPG Special Forces Units.
• Paris killings deciphered 

  It has been five years since three revolutionary Kurdish women were massacred in Paris, but justice is yet to be served.
• A Soranî voice in Deir ez-Zor 

  Şaho, a YPG fighter from Kermanshah, sings in Soranî during an evening break in the intense battle in Deir ez-Zor. He believes in the greatness of the revolution and Kermanshah increases his hope.
• KCK releases critical information and documents of MİT 

  KCK Executive Council Co-presidency has made information and documents about two top Turkish intelligence (MİT) members captured by guerrilla forces.
• KCK announces details of the operation against MİT members  

  KCK Executive Council Co-presidency has made information and documents about two top Turkish intelligence (MİT) members captured by guerrilla forces.
• Dozens of political killings on the French soil not clarified 

  "There is no other country in Europe with more political assassinations than France. We notice a judicial impotence. And every time the French authorities declare: "We will do everything to find and judge the killers," and then nothing happens."
• Karayılan: 2018 will be the year of all forces of freedom 

  PKK Executive Committee Member Murat Karayılan stated that the Turkish state has been defeated throughout Kurdistan and will withdraw as a result of great resistance in 2018.
• PKK’s Engin: “We will continue to be Che’s followers” 

  PKK Central Committee Member Kasım Engin celebrated the anniversary of the Cuban revolution and saluted the Cuban people. Engin also stated that Öcalan and the PKK are followers and comrades of Che.
• War for will and labor in the deserts of Deir ez-Zor 

  The Operation Cizire Storm continues with great will and labor. It’s not just ISIS gangs being fought in Deir ez-Zor. The resistance is also against the incredibly harsh conditions of the desert.
• Karayılan: Turkish state was defeated by the guerrilla and people 

  PKK Executive Committee Member Murat Karayılan said: “This is an important process for Kurds, and it includes important opportunities. If Kurdish politics act on the right bases, they can turn current conditions into success."
• YPG's Sipan Hemo: Russia promised Kurdish participation in Sochi 

  "Russia has stated that they consider Kurds a fundamental people of Syria and don’t see any reason for crises or problems with Kurdish participation. That is the direction of the promises they made", said YPG Commander General Sipan Hemo.
• Karayılan: PKK will develop a more effective fight in 2018 

  Kurdistan freedom struggle will develop a more effective fight against AKP and MHP’s fascist wave in 2018, PKK’s Murat Karayılan says.
• Karayılan: Turkish colonialism failed in its war against the PKK 

  Turkish colonialism led by the AKP failed in all parts of Kurdistan and said 1,484 Turkish soldiers were killed in clashes between Turkish army and the PKK.