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• 11th Berlin Kurdish Film Festival opens with screening of 'Ezmun' 

  The 11th Berlin Kurdish Film Festival opened on Thursday with the film "Ezmun" (The exam).
• Imprisoned Kurdish writer Mujgan Kawsi deported to Evin Prison 

  Imprisoned Kurdish writer Mujgan Kawsi was deported from Keçuni Prison to Evin Prison.
• Musician Demir faces 9 years in prison 

  The Turkish judiciary sentenced musician Dilan Demir to 9 years in prison for "being a member of a terrorist organization", citing statements by a secret witness.
• Book by Internationalist fighter and martyr Lorenzo Orsetti to be presented in Berlin 

  Lorenzo Orsetti was a SDF fighter when he fell a martyr in 2019 in the final assault on the last ISIS bastion in eastern Syria. His writings and letters from Rojava have now been published as a book and will be presented by his family in Berlin.
• Artist Xelîl Xemgîn gets out of hospital 

  Artist Xelîl Xemgîn, who stayed in the hospital for many months recovering from coronavirus was discharged. Xemgîn was welcomed by his artist friends.
• Submission open for Hüseyin Çelebi literature festival  

  The Hüseyin Çelebi literature festival will take place in Freiburg on 23 October. The student associations YXK and JXK are calling for active participation in the event, which takes place in memory of the guerrilla. Submission is now open.
• Women's radio Star FM prepares to increase broadcast 

  Women's radio Star FM is preparing to increase its broadcast with different programs in and around Jazira districts.
• Kurds in Marseille hold Sinan Dersim Kurdish Culture Festival  

  Kurds and their friends attended the Sinan Dersim Kurdish Culture Festival in Marseille on Sunday.
• Nivişta Gerîla: The story behind the song 

  In the guerrilla, there are many stories full of hope, longing and love. One of these stories is told in the piece "Nivişta Gerîla" by Şêro Hindê and Mehmûd Berazî.
• Kurds and their friends meet at the Culture Festival in the Netherlands 

  This year's International Kurdish Culture Festival is hosted in the Netherlands. People came from dozens of locations across European to attend the festival.
• US hands back Gilgamesh Dream Tablet to Iraq 

  A 3,600-year-old tablet showing part of the Epic of Gilgamesh was handed back to Iraq by the US on Thursday.
• Street theatre in Northern and Eastern Syria 

  Kawa Fettah from the Theater Commune, brought the theater to society, performing on the streets of Northern and Eastern Syria.
• Court schedules hearing of writer Meral Şimşek for 5 October 

  The trial of Meral Şimşek continued in Malatya. The Kurdish writer faces up to 22 and a half years’ imprisonment for alleged PKK membership and propaganda for an illegal organisation. Books, awards and short stories count as evidence.
• Aryen Culture, Art and Research Atelier in Van trains very small children in Kurdish 

  Aryen Culture, Art and Research Atelier in Van educates future artists to preserve and pass on Kurdish culture by providing music education to children aged 2 to 5 in Kurdish.
• Meral Şimşek: I will not remain silent 

  Meral Şimşek is a Kurdish writer and mother of two children. She faces up to 15 years in prison in Turkey because of her books. During an illegal pushback from Greece, she was abused by masked men and thrown into the Maritsa.
• Artists from Raqqa attend 3rd Hawar Festival in Shehba 

  Artists from Raqqa attended the 3rd Hawar Festival and drew attention to the resistance of the people of Afrin saying that they wanted to keep the Kurdish heritage alive despite all difficulties.
• Historical sites in Afrin looted and vandalized 

  In occupied Afrin, excavations were carried out by the occupation forces at more than 60 archaeological sites and the sites were devastated with construction machinery.
• School authorities in Cologne look for teacher of Kirmanckî 

  According to UNESCO, Kirmanckî is one of the languages ​​threatened with extinction. The school authorities in Cologne are looking for a teacher for 20 hours a week for native language lessons at elementary, special and secondary schools.
• Kurdish diplomacy at Humanité Festival 

  The Kurds made a mark for themselves in the Humanité Festival, which was organized by the French communist newspaper Humanité.
• 'Memory of Kobane' introduced in Bern 

  During the European Cultural Heritage Days held in Bern, a memory museum on Kobane has been introduced, and clay tablets made by Swiss and Kurdish artists have been exhibited.
• ‘Abdullah Öcalan’ booth at Folk Festival in Vienna 

  At the Folk Festival (Volksfest) held in Vienna, Kurdish youth movements TCŞ and TekoJIN opened an information booth introducing the Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• 3rd Hawar Festival to kick off in Shehba on Monday  

  Afrin Culture and Art Committee named the 21-person Committee for the 3rd Hawar Festival and started the preparations for the festival.
• 6th children's festival opens in Hesekê  

  The 6th children's festival started in Hesekê and saw the participation of 16 children's art groups.
• Martyr Xabur Culture and Art Center: from ISIS training school to cultural venue 

  Martyr Xabur Culture and Art Center, which was turned into a center where mercenaries received ideological education during the occupation of ISIS, was turned into a culture, art and music school after the liberation of the district.
• Liturgy in Armenian Holy Trinity Church in Malatya after 106 years 

  For the first time in 106 years, people of Christian faith have been able to attend a religious service in the Armenian Trinity Church in Malatya. The church had been closed for community use since the genocide of 1915.