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• Women’s delegation appeals to visit Leyla Güven 

  An international women’s delegation promoted by UIKI and CENI will try to meet HDP Hakkari MP, Leyla Güven, on hunger strike for 54 days.
• First Conference of Manbij Women’s Council underway 

  In the hall where the conference is held, banners reading ‘the 21st century will be the women’s century’, ‘Our Will is Stronger Than Threats’ and ‘Peoples’ Unity begins from Women’s Unity’ can be seen.
• Two sisters reunited in YJA Star 

  In a cause for freedom of 40 years, it is possible to see people from the same family fighting the same enemy in the same trenches. Like YJA Star guerrilla Dirok Cudi and her sister.
• KBDH: Leyla Guven is our will 

  The KBDH has pointed out to the 50 days of hunger strike that Leyla Guven has gone through, saying: “This is our resistance, Leyla Guven is a symbol of our will. We will not surrender our will.”
• Women in Montpeiller sent solidarity letter to Leyla Güven 

  HDP MP Leyla Güven's hunger strike against the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan continues since November 7.
• Women in Paris sent letter to MP Leyla Güven 

  Ekin Van Women's Council sent a letter to HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven from Paris.
• Deir ez-Zor women strengthen their economy through cooperatives 

  The women of Deir ez-Zor have started to take on a leading role in all areas after the region was liberated and are now strengthening their economies through the cooperatives they build.
• FARC women in solidarity with Leyla Güven 

  The Women of People’s Alternative Revolutionary Force party (FARC) expressed their solidarity and support to the hunger strike carried out by HDP deputy Leyla Guven.
• Women of Bordeaux in solidarity with Leyla Güven 

  Actions multiply all over Europe to support Leyla Güven.
• Italian women in solidarity with Leyla Güven 

  The Women’s House in Ravenna (Italy) sent solidarity message to HDP Hakkari deputy Leyla Güven.
• Jailed journalist starts hunger strike against isolation 

  Hunger strike actions against the isolation regime on Abdullah Öcalan are growing.
• FARC women expressed solidarity with Leyla Güven 

  Leyla started the hunger strike to protest the isolation imposed on the leader of the PKK, Abdullah Öcalan in the island of Imrali, where he is detained, since 2015.
• Women of Afrin on solidarity hunger strike with Leyla Güven 

  Speakers said they would support women no matter the threats and attacks carried out by the Turkish state and promised to continue their struggle until the construction of a free, democratic and safe society.
• Disciplinary punishment against imprisoned DBP Co-chair Tuncel 

  Jailed DBP leader Sebahat Tuncel was given a ten-month disciplinary sanction by the prison authorities for participating in a hunger strike.
• RJAK members on hunger strike for Öcalan in Sulaymaniyah 

  RJAK members in Sulaymaniyah have started a hunger strike for Kurdish leader Öcalan.
• Women on hunger strike detained in Van 

  14 women from the Peace Mothers and the TJA who had started a hunger strike demanding an end to the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan have been detained in Van.
• AKP terror in Amed: 25 women on hunger strike detained 

  At least 25 women supporting HDP Hakkari deputy Leyla Güven have been taken into custody.
• Women in Kobanê on hunger strike to support Leyla Güven 

  Kongreya-Star promoted a hunger strike to support HDP Hakkari deputy Leyla Güven.
• Sabiha Temizkan: My mum, my people’s Leyla 

  HDP Hakkari deputy and DTK co-chair, Leyla Güven, is on hunger strike since 8 November in Amed prison. She went on hunger strike to demand an end to the isolation regime imposed on Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Women and Culture discussed at workshop in Hesekê 

  MSD co-chair Emine Omer said that in the process of revolution in Northern and Eastern Syria, women achieved many gains to overcome the reactionary traditions.
• 31 women murdered in Turkey in November 

  The ‘We Will Stop Femicides Platform’ announced that 31 women have been killed in November by men, with a total of 652 women in the last 19 months.
• Women in Van on hunger strike against isolation 

  TJA activists and Peace Mothers have started a hunger strike in solidarity with Leyla Güven against the isolation of Öcalan.
• Women start a 3-day hunger strike in Amed against isolation 

  Support for the Democratic Society Congress (DTK) Co-chair and HDP Hakkari deputy Leyla Güven, continues to grow. 
• Women go on hunger strike in Aleppo 

  "As Konreya-Star, we will continue to live following the ideas of Öcalan, who has reinstated all values ​​destroyed by the sovereign system and led the society towards freedom."
• Kurdish women’s movement discussed in Paris 

  Bidard said: “The HDP is not only a Kurdish political party. In Turkey today, not only Kurds, but also many women, academics and journalists are on trial and in jails.”