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• Women herald the founding of JIN TV 

  Newa Women’s Foundation has announced the founding of women’s television JIN TV. The foundation said they dedicate the television to the women murdered in Paris and called for solidarity.
• Fighting with Sara’s spirit will be the guarantee of a free life 

  Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) released a statement to commemorate three Kurdish woman revolutionaries who were killed in Paris in 2012.
• YJCR’s call for women in Iran and Rojhilat 

  Eastern Kurdistan Young Women’s Union (YJCR) called on women in Iran and Rojhilat to “participate in the insurgency in a stronger and more organized fashion”.
• French jihadist woman responds the allegations of YPG torture 

  Emilie Konig, a French jihadist woman captured by YPG, spoke up on the allegations by French media outlets about her.
• YJŞ Command commemorates Sakine, Fidan and Leyla 

  “As YJŞ, we are the Êzidî women who take over the legacy of the struggle of the Sara’s. Her passion for freedom, irrevocable will, unshakable resistance, longing and hopes will continue to become a light for our struggle.”
• Jalalian’s former cellmate found dead at home 

  It came out that Zahra Azade Saresht, who was a former prisoner in Kermanshah in Rojhilat (Eastern Kurdistan) and a former cellmate of Zeynab Jalalian, was found dead at her home on October 14, 2017.
• Thousands demand trial for Erdogan for his role in Paris massacre 

  In Paris, tens of thousands demanded a trial for Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan for his role in the killing of three Kurdish women in Paris in 2012.
• FEMEN protests against “Cannibal Erdoğan” in Paris 

  The feminist group FEMEN protested against the President of the Republic of Turkey and AKP leader Recep Tayyip Erdoğan during his visit to Paris at the invitation of French President Emmanuel Macron on Friday.
• TJA activist detained in Van 

  Turkish police detained Free Women's Movement (TJA) activist Bêrîvan Elter in Van.
• Iranian and Rojhilat women: “We won’t go back home” 

  Iranian and Rojhilati female writers, intellectuals, actors and women’s rights activists called for participation in popular protests and said, “After the victory we will not go back home, we will be present in all areas of life.”
• Rojhilat’s RJAK: The uprising led by women will achieve its goals 

  Eastern Kurdistan Free Women’s Organization (KJAR) said, “We have entered a new year with the serhildans led by women in Iran and Rojhilatê Kurdistan. The uprising led by women will achieve its goals.”
• Turkey: 409 women killed, 387 children abused in 2017 

  At least 409 women were killed, and 387 children were abused in Turkey in 2017, We Will Stop Femicide Platform said.
• KJAR calls upon women to join protests in Iran 

  Eastern Kurdistan Women Movement (KJAR) called upon all women to join protests in Iran.
• YJA Star guerrillas: 2018 will be the year of revenge and victory 

  YJA Star guerrillas fighting on the front line: 2018 will be the year of revenge and victory.
• Another mass grave of 80 Êzidî women discovered 

  Another mass grave has been discovered with bodies of 80 Êzidî women massacred in the 73rd genocide by the ISIS gangs in Shengal.
• 52 woman journalists detained in 2017 in Turkey 

  According to a report by Mesopotamia Women Journalists Platform, 52 woman journalists were detained and nine of them were sent to prison in Turkey in 2017.
• Young female guerrillas complete training term 

  32 young female fighters have graduated after completing the Martyr Tekoşin Baran training term in the guerrilla zones.
• Women prisoners on hunger strike for 58 days 

  Women prisoners in Elazig T-Type Prison are in hunger strike for 58 days to protest their conditions of detention.
• Russian woman rescued from ISIS by YPG 

  YPG fighters rescued a Russian woman who has been living in ISIS captivity with her children since she came to Syria in 2014.
• People of Jarablus clash with gangs harassing women 

  Reports say clashes broke out between the locals and the gangs in Jarablus centre when gang members from Ahrar Al Sharqiya and Al Jihishat under the Euphrates Shield harassed a woman. 
• United Kurdish Women’s Platform founded in Amed 

  Following a meeting in the mainly Kurdish city Amed (Diyarbakır), Kurdish women have founded United Kurdish Women’s Platform.
• Special buses for women now in Maraş 

  After the introduction of pink special buses for women in Turkey has been heavily criticized, light blue buses have now been put in service in Maraş province.
• Star Fm: A new women's radio station starts broadcast in Rojava 

  A new women’s radio station, Star FM, began its broadcast in Tirbespiyê in Northern Syria.
• The resistance of the YPJ is just beginning 

  The resistance of the YPJ fighters will not end with the annihilation of the ISIS. Every YPJ fighter underlines that the fight against male fascism will go on mercilessly. As fighter Azadî Avesta puts it, "Until all the women in the world are free..."
• Female Kurdish activist sentenced to 50 lashes 

  Kurdish activist Zemane Zêwe from Rojhilat (Eastern Kurdistan) has been sentenced to 50 lashes for attending an event in solidarity with 25 September’s independence referendum in Southern Kurdistan.