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• Call to join 3rd Global Day of Action to defend Hasankeyf 

  On June 7 and 8 actions are planned in dozens of cities in Turkey and across Mesopotamia.
• Julie Ward MEP expresses concern to Erdoğan for Ilisu dam 

  Julie Ward MEP has written a letter to President Erdoğan a few days before the Turkish government will start filling the Ilisu Dam reservoir.
• Turkish state allied gangs set fire to cultivated lands in Afrin 

  The invading Turkish state and their allied gang groups have set fire to thousands of trees and hectares of cultivated land in Afrin.
• Call for global action for ancient Hasankeyf on 7 and 8 June 

  The Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive and Mesopotamia Ecology Movement called on social movements, NGO's, activists to join the 3rd Global Day of Action for the defense of the 12,000 year old town Hasankeyf and the Tigris River on 7 and 8 June.
• Turkey deliberately burned 11,000 hectares of lands in Afrin 

  Forests are intentionally set on fire in Turkish state-occupied Afrin. It has been reported that at least 11,000 hectares have been burned to date.
• Open letter on the ecological revolution in Rojava 

  “We also call for support for the ecological revolution in Rojava. We are referring mainly to the internationalist community of Rojava with its campaign Make Rojava Green Again.”
• Call for 3rd Global Hasankeyf Action Day on June 7-8 

  The Initiative to Keep Hasankeyf Alive and Mesopotamia Ecology Movement issued a call for 3rd Global Hasankeyf Action Day on June 7-8, 2019.
• Turkish forces and jihadists burn fields and trees in Sherawa 

  The Turkish army and jihadist allies continue their barbaric acts in the occupied Afrin Canton.
• Guerrilla is one with nature 

  Mountaineering backpacks have fluorescent parts, they want to be found when they are lost. But when it comes to the guerrilla, it’s a different story. The backpacks. weapons, clips and flasks take on the colors appropriate for guerrilla life.
• Trees and beaches killed for Erdogan’s mansion in Bitlis 

  Trees, beaches and the natural environment are being killed for the “Presidential Mansion” being built on orders from Turkish President Erdogan.
• Invading Turkish state destroys 300 years of history 

  The invading Turkish state has destroyed 300 years of history as they built a wall to separate Afrin from the rest of Kurdistan.
• Make Rojava Green Again: A meeting in Manhattan 

  The Internationalist Commune of Rojava has produced both a vision and a manual for what a free, ecological society can look like.
• Spring in Amed through ANF lenses 

  With the arrival of spring, there are more than 250 bird species in the Hewsel Gardens, where colourful and beautiful floral scents conquest the air.
• Final declaration of the 1st Mesopotamia Water Forum in Sulaimani 

  The Mesopotamian Water Forum is an alternative civil society forum for water, an open space to give voice to those who are marginalized and excluded from the discussion about water management in the Mesopotamian region.
• Make Rojava Green Again Meeting in Geneva 

  A networking meeting of the "Make Rojava Green Again" campaign took place this weekend in Geneva. The ecologically focused activists also showed solidarity with the hunger strikes in Turkish prisons.
• 7000 trees for Raqqa 

  As part of the tree planting campaign launched in the northern Syrian city of Raqqa in mid-March, the Civil Council has planted 7,000 trees in the former capital of the self-proclaimed ISIS caliphate.
• German State confiscates “Make Rojava Green Again” books 

  “We condemn this decision and demand the return of the books as well as the lifting of the ban of the Mezopotamya publishing house.”
• Olives planted to condemn Turkish destruction of Afrin nature 

  The campaign lasted 7 days and was promoted by intellectuals and artists who planted olive tree saplings in Jazira and Euphrates regions. 
• Turkish-backed mercenaries destroy the nature of Afrin 

  Afrin remains under the occupation of the Turkish army and allied jihadist mercenaries for one year now.
• Afrin’s olives on Switzerland’s agenda 

  Swiss MP Bernhard Guhl took the Turkish state looting Afrin’s olives to be sold to Spain to the Swiss parliament’s agenda. Guhl stressed that the Turkish state continues to violate international law in front of the whole world to see.
• KODAR’s Ecology Committee warns the IRGC and wood mafia 

  Over the past two months, there have been numerous reports on social media of massive destruction of the Zagros Forests and the plundering of wood in Rojhilat. KODAR’s Ecology Committee warns the perpetrators that they will be held accountable.
• Disaster Flood in the Tigris – Made by a Turkish Dam 

  The Mesopotamia Ecology Movement (MEM) critized that the current state policies of the Turkish state aim to dominate fully nature with engineering and narrow economic approaches.
• Images of autumn in the mountains of Kurdistan 

  Autumn continues in the mountains of Kurdistan despite the onset of winter.
• Italian edition of Make Rojava Green Again now out 

  With the language bridging utopia and the concrete, the poetic and the everyday, the Internationalist Commune has produced a vision which is also a book about how an ecological and free society may look like.
• The dangers of the Tigris Dam 

  The water level in the Tigris River continues to rise in parallel with the flow of water after a hatch in the Tigris Dam in Amil's Eğil district was closed.