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• Death fast activist Özdemir: Our only option is to prevail 

  Merwan Memduh Özdemir is on day 9 of his death fast in Sulaymaniyah against the isolation. Özdemir said: “We will smash the Imrali system. We will do it at the cost of our lives. We have no other option.”
• London hunger striker: Our fast is for justice and freedom 

  Nahide Zengin has been on hunger strike at the London Kurdish Democratic Society Centre since 14 March.
• Sinn Féin John Finucane elected mayor of Belfast 

  No doubt the election as mayor of Belfast of Sinn Féin John Finucane, son of murdered lawyer Pat Finucane, is one of those moments to call historic. 
• Transfer of funds to ISIS under police supervision 

  SDF prisoner Sahab Ahmed Abdullatif spoke about ISIS transfers of funds from Deir Ez Zor to Turkey and to European and Gulf states from Turkey have been done under the supervision of the Turkish police and the MIT since 2017.
• Internationalism and Prison Resistance of the Şehids of May 

  "Remembering the Şehids of May: Haki Karer, Deniz Gezmiş, Ibrahim Kaypakkaya, Mahmut Zengin, Eşref Anyik, Ferhat Kurtay and Necmi Öner: Internationalism and Prison Resistance”.
• FARC Santrich's release and re-arrest a new blow to peace  

  Santrich, who has been seen visibly ill, was taken back to prison after new charges were read out to him.
• Death fast activist Topkaya: Isolation is everybody’s problem 

  Political prisoner Ahmet Topkaya, who has been on a death fast in the Diyarbakir Type D Prison since April 30, said those who avoid their responsibilities today won’t be able to avoid being held to account by history.
• International call to save Hasankeyf 

  Nearly 100 environmentalist institutions have called for action before the AKP-wanted Ilısu Dam makes ancient Hasankeyf disappearing.
• Sinn Féin John Finucane set to be new Belfast Mayor 

  Sinn Féin group leader on Belfast City Council, Councillor Ciaran Beattie, has said the party will nominate Councillor John Finucane to be the next Ard Mhéara of Belfast. 
• TEV-DEM Co-chair: The key to the solution is in Imrali 

  TEV-DEM Co-chair Xerib Hiso spoke about Ocalan’s recent message and said Turkey needs a fresh start: “The key to this fresh start is with Leader Apo.”
• DAESH propaganda woman: I want to confront Turkey 

  Turkish journalist Defne Bayrak set off for Syria to join DAESH and work for its propaganda machine in 2015. She has been captured and has been a prisoner in the hands of the SDF for some time. 
• New round of talks in Belfast kicks off on Monday 

  Sinn Féin leader Mary Lou McDonald has said she believes an agreement can be reached after round-table five-party talks began in Belfast this week.
• Peace Delegation to Imrali met Council of Europe representatives 

  International Peace Delegation to Imrali met with representatives of Council of Europe in Strasbourg.
• “We handled handovers for Turkish soldiers in Suleiman Shah” 

  ISIS amir Abu Hajir said they handled the handover ceremonies for Turkish soldiers during the year they had the Suleiman Shah Tomb under blockade in 2014.
• Lawyer Newroz Uysal talks about the meeting with Öcalan 

  Newroz Uysal, one of the lawyers for Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan, told ANF about the meeting they had in Imralı Island Prison on May 2nd.
• Bahoz Erdal: We prepare for the great war 

  People’s Defense Central Headquarters Command Member Dr. Bahoz Erdal said the war in the Middle East is not going to end in the short term and added: “The guerrilla prepares for an extensive, long-term war, and this is a necessity.”
• “Remembering means fighting” – the day of Ulrike Meinhof’s death 

  “If our identity is our political consciousness, whose content is collectivity (guerrilla, armed struggle), then they cannot tear it out by isolation without killing.”
• Nobel Prize Laureate Esquivel sent new letter to CPT 

  Nobel Prize Laureate Adolfo Pérez Esquivel expressed their concern for Abdullah Ocalan and demanding the CPT to act on isolation.
• Prisoners: Our resistance will continue until our demands are met 

  PKK and PAJK prisoners said Öcalan’s meeting with lawyers did not mean the end of the isolation, and vowed that they will never give up on resistance until their demands are met.
• Lawyers held a press conference on meeting with Öcalan - UPDATED 

  Four lawyers appealed to visit the client, but only two of the lawyers were approved and those two lawyers were the ones to hold the meeting.
• Hezbolcounter settled in Southern Kurdistan 

  The legal façade of the Hezbolcounter Huda-Par and the capital group HAKSIAD were received at the top level in Southern Kurdistan under the guarantee of the MIT and lead of the KDP. They were allowed to set up an official representation office.
• Turkish ISIS responsible: Kobanê was the biggest mistake 

  Ilyas Aydin, one of the officials of the ISIS in Turkey, is in captivity in northern Syria.
• Sinn Féin confirmed to be the party of change in local elections 

  Sinn Féin obtained good results at North of Ireland local elections, while unionist parties lost heavily.
• Dersim Genocide remembered on 81st anniversary 

  4 May marked the 81st anniversary of the beginning of the Dersim Genocide. The Turkish government massacred thousands of people, those who survived were banished, Dersim was depopulated.
• Bobby Sands died on hunger strike on 5 May 1981 

  On 5 May 1981 IRA Volunteer, Hunger Striker and Fermanagh South/Tyrone MP Bobby Sands died in the H-Block prison hospital at Long Kesh.