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• "Zer" awarded three film prizes in Antakya 

  Kurdish director Kazım Oz’s new film "Zer" has been awarded three prizes at the Antakya Film Festival.
• Short film about Taybet Inan wins prize 

  A short film about Taybet Inan, who was killed by Turkish soldiers during the curfew in the northern Kurdish town of Silopî, has been awarded another prize.
• Kurdish Film Festival London to be held in memory of Mehmet Aksoy 

  10th Kurdish Film Festival London will be held in memory of Mehmet Aksoy, a documentarist who was killed in an ISIS attack during Raqqa offensive.
• Costa Rican director Miranda prepares for a Rojava feature 

  Costa Rican director Luis Miranda protested the isolation imposed upon Öcalan and said, “I want to tell Europeans about his ideas and the Rojava Revolution through a feature film.”
• Zehra Doğan’s art exhibited in Geneva 

  Arrested journalist and artist Zehra Doğan’s paintings are being exhibited in Geneva.
• Nazeri and Kamkars hold benefit concert for earthquake victims 

  Shahram Nazeri and Kamkars held a benefit concert for the earthquake victims in Kermanshah.
• Rastak band to donate concert proceeds to earthquake victims 

  Iranian folk band Rastak will donate a part of the proceeds from concerts in Istanbul and Diyarbakir to the earthquake victims in Kermanshah.
• Jailed Kurdish journalist's paintings to be exhibited in Geneva 

  Imprisoned journalist and artist Zehra Doğan’s paintings will be exhibited in Geneva, Switzerland by the Amnesty International.
• Artuqid era tombs discovered in Hasankeyf 

  Historic tombs have been discovered in digs in the ancient city of Hasankeyf.
• Destruction accelerates in Hasankeyf and the Tigris Basin 

  Environmental and heritage destruction have accelerated in Turkey’s historic city of Hasankeyf as crews work day and night, seven days a week to collapse vulnerable portions of the cliffs ringing the town and fill in some 200 caves.
• Turkey restores only Ottoman and Seljukian buildings in Van 

  Turkish state restores only mosques from Ottoman and Seljukian era while leaving Kurdish historical buildings and Armenian churches to their fate. 
• Turkification operation on Kurdish daycare in Van 

  The Perperok Daycare, opened by DBP’s Van Metropolitan Municipality in 2015 with a curriculum completely in Kurdish, has undergone Turkification including in its name by the appointed trustee.
• Literature Festival in London dedicated to Mehmet Aksoy 

  This year’s Huseyin Celebi Literature Festival will be held in memory of British-Kurdish filmmaker Mehmet Aksoy, who was killed by ISIS in Raqqa.
• Short film about Mother Taybet awarded a prize 

  The short film "Seven days and seven nights” dedicated to mother Taybet was awarded a prize. Mother Taybet was shot dead by Turkish police carrying out an operation in Silopi. Her lifeless body was left out on the streets for an entire week.
• Guerrillas perform Sophocles’ ‘Antigone’ amid Turkish air strikes 

  An adaptation of Sophocles’ “Antigone” was performed by a guerrilla theatre group in the mountains amid Turkish air strikes.
• Award for HDP’s Demirtaş at Slemani International Film Festival 

  Imprisoned HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş has been granted the 'Ahmet Kaya Award' in the 2nd Slemani International Film Festival.
• Petition against relocation of monuments in Hasankeyf 

  Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive launched a petition campaign against relocation of monuments in Hasankeyf.
• Kurdistan Culture Week kicks off in Brussels 

  Speaking at the Kurdistan Culture Week in Brussels, President of the Flemish Parliament Jan Peumans said: "We support the freedom struggle of the Kurds in the Middle East."
• Iran closes airspace to Southern Kurdistan 

  Iran has closed its airspace to all flights to and from the Southern Kurdistan Regional Government.
• Kurdish Culture Festival kicks off in Cologne  

  The 25th International Kurdish Culture Festival has kicked off in German city Cologne with the participation of tens of thousands.
• AKP’s “genocide file” submitted to UNESCO 

  A file on the genocidal attacks in Kurdistan has been submitted to UNESCO officials in the meetings in Bern, Switzerland.
• Cologne ready for the 25th Kurdish Culture Festival 

  The 25th International Kurdish Culture Festival will kick off in Cologne on Saturday with the motto "Freedom for Öcalan, Status for Kurdistan, Freedom to the Middle East".
• The colorful Merîvan Street Theater Festival continues 

  The 12th edition of the Merîvan Street Theater Festival has left four days behind.
• Kolbers not forgotten in the Merîvan Street Theatre Festival 

  The International Street Theatre Festival held in Merîvan for the 12th time is in its third day. The festival started with a play thematising the lives of the kolbers (border porters) who are facing increasing deadly attacks by the Iranian regime.
• The ‘cursed’ stone of Kelashin 

  For centuries, the secret of the 2 meter tall inscribed stone in the Kelashin Passage, one of the most precipitous areas of the Zagros Mountains, was unknown.