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• 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.
• Sing, play, paint or do something for Hasankeyf! 

  Today is Global Action Day for Hasankeyf. Organisers invited people to "sing, play, paint or do something for Hasankeyf".
• 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.
• Demos in Sweden against the Turkish invasion 

  The attempt by AKP-MHP fascism to invade Rojava is met with reaction in Sweden.
• 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.
• Tragedy of refugees in Van continues 

  The influx of refugees to Van continues. Hundreds of refugees have been struggling to survive for months at Van Intercity Bus Station.
• Michael Panser: Good luck to you all! 

  Guerrilla fighter Michael Panser tells of his ideas of a contemporary revolution and his experiences in the free mountains of Kurdistan in a video recorded in autumn 2018.
• HDP mayors write to European mayors about trustees 

  The dismissed mayors said: "We acknowledge this decision as a government coup -- the last one in a chain of attacks of the Erdogan regime in recent years against pluralist democracy, against the Kurdish democratic will in particular."
• HDP's Gülüm: In a country without rule of law, resisting is a right 

  HDP Deputy Züleyha Gülüm stated that it is not possible to discuss the AKP political coup on a legal basis and stressed that when there is no law in a country, it is right to resist.
• Leyla Güven called for unity of Kurds at Van meeting 

  Thousands of people attended the 1 September World Peace rally in Van where the Confederation of Public Workers' Trade Unions (KESK) Co-Chair Mehmet Bozgeyik and Democratic Society Congress (DTK) Co-Chair Leyla Güven addressed the crowd.
• Julie Ward MEP sends solidarity message to Amed Peace rally 

  British European deputy Julie Ward has sent a video message to the rally in Amed ahead of today's rally for World Peace Day.
• KCK's Hozat: War is the most terrible invention of the male mind 

  KCK Executive Council Co-Chair Bêsê Hozat: The AKP is the mentality against democracy and freedom at its best.
• UK actress Maxine Peake sends message to World Peace Day in Amed 

  UK actress Maxine Peake sent video message to World Peace Day Rally in Amed.
• MEP Ward: Action needed to save Hasankeyf - Part 2 

  "There is not enough awareness at European level of the tragic situation in Hasankeyf. There has, however, been an increased awareness of the loss of significant cultural heritage due to ISIS' destruction of iconic monuments such as those at Palmyra."
• MEP Julie Ward: Weak leaders resort to scare tactics - Part I 

  The AKP losing to the opposition CHP in Istanbul is a body blow and so the President is resorting to bully boy tactics in the Kurdish majority cities where he has already set a precedent for overturning democracy with his policy of unelected 'trustees'.
• The truth seeker who insisted on another world 

  The Internationalist Commune of Rojava remembers Michael Panser, a German guerrilla who fought in the mountains of Kurdistan and fell a martyr in an air raid by the Turkish army in South Kurdistan.
• Four villages in Sherawa, Afrin surrounded 

  Three sides of the Bircqase, Kilote, Gunde Mezin and Basemre villages in Afrin’s Sherawa district have been surrounded by the Turkish army and their allied gangs. The only road to the villages is under control of the Syrian regime.
• YPJ Commander: We'll develop a new military women’s organization 

  YPJ Command General Member Axin Nucan said women will lead SDF’s reorganization and added: “We haven’t made concrete the form yet, but we will develop a new military women’s organization.”
• ISIS used radio communication equipment brought from Turkey 

  Ilyas Aydin, a former ISIS executive and currently under arrest in the hands of the SDF, stated that ISIS has purchased a large amount of radio from Istanbul.
• #Riseup4Rojava in solidarity with the anti-fascist resistance 

  "We know the truth: the resistance in Kurdistan will very soon be Erdogan's grave!", said the international campaign and platform Riseup4Rojava.
• Ireland faces its biggest challenge as Brexit becomes reality 

  The Sunday Times revealed details of leaked Cabinet office documents declaring that the British government believes there will be a hard border on the island of Ireland in the event of a no-deal Brexit.
• PKK’s Karayılan: We base on Öcalan’s orders and instructions 

  "Our people should rest assured that the guerrilla will defeat AKP’s intelligence and technology and will win," said Murat Karayılan of the PKK.