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• KCK's Bayik: To stand up for Rojava alone is not a solution 

  People around the world show solidarity with Rojava, but that is not enough. Something must also be done for Northern Kurdistan, because this is where the destruction campaign of the Turkish state has its starting point, says Cemil Bayik of the KCK.
• KCK's Bayik: Third World War taking place in the Middle East 

  "Both the USA and Russia have sacrificed the Kurds to their own interests and cleared the way for Turkey. Turkey is being used by them against the Kurds," explained Cemil Bayik of the KCK in a TV analysis.
• Turkey's "30 kilometers obsession" 

  The wave of genocidal policies initiated by the Ottoman Empire against the Assyrians and Chaldeans and the ancient peoples of Mesopotamia on the eve of the First World War continues today in Rojava.
• Sinn Féin National Congress under way in Derry 

  The Sinn Féin Ard Fheis (national congress) in under way in Derry. Some thousand people, between delegates and guests, filled the Millenium Forum in the city.
• Internationalist Commune of Rojava remembers Seyit Rıza 

  This 15th November 2019 mark the 82nd anniversary of the execution of Seyit Riza by the Turkish state. The internationalist commune of Rojava published this article to remember him and his fight against the oppressors.
• Sassoli: Killings of civilians and prisoners are war crimes 

  Professor Marco Sassoli, an expert in international humanitarian law, said that Turkey in Northern and Eastern Syria is acting in violation of international law.
• Del Ponte: UN failed, West betrayed the Kurds 

  Del Ponte said that the role of the UN in the war in Syria had actually to do only with humanitarian aid. The UN has done nothing to bring peace to Syria, she said.
• Assyrian-Syriac fighters: We will defend our people and land 

  Fighters of the Syriac Military Council and Khabour Guards declare that they will defend the Til Temir region and its people against the Turkish invasion.
• Turkish MIT works on resettlement from Central Asia to Rojava 

  The Turkish secret service MIT and the Migration Service are working together to colonize a five-kilometer-wide strip between the occupied Serêkaniyê and Girê Spî with the families of the SNA militiamen.
• We must reach national unity: We can't lose another century 

  Former HDP Şırnak deputy Ferhat Encü and HDP Van deputy Murat Sarısaç talked about the need of national unity.
• Teachers in Dirbesiyê: Education is one of the victims of war 

  Teachers in Dirbesiyê said that students are among the victims of the Turkish occupation attacks against Rojava and that the occupation was an obstacle to education.
• Hundreds of thousands displaced because of Turkish invasion 

  Hundreds of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes because of the Turkish state invasion of North East Syria. Over 159,721 people emigrated to Hesekê and Raqqa provinces alone.
• PYD's Hesen: We're always ready to negotiate with Damascus-Part 2 

  PYD co-chair Shaoz Hesen, talks about the current state of things in Syria.
• Global call to defend the Rojava Revolution 

  “We salute all the actions and demonstrations happening in solidarity with Rojava and send our warmest greeting to those who are supporting the campaigns of #RiseUp4Rojava and #WomenDefendRojava."
• Interview with PYD co-chair Hesen - PART ONE 

  PYD co-chair, Shaoz Hesen, talks about the current state of things in Syria. 
• Paramilitaries threats against UUP ahead of Westminster elections 

  Loyalist paramilitaries issued threats against the Ulster Unionist Party (UUP) trying to force it to withdraw from the Westminster election in north Belfast against Nigel Dodds, deputy leader of the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP).
• The Importance of What Is Happening to the Kurds 

  We publish an article by Hungarian philosopher Gâspâr Miklôs Tamâs who calls for support for the Kurdish cause, saying that especially Turks should support their Kurdish brothers and sisters, as neither oppression nor freedom have a race or an ethnicity.
• Internationalist Commune pays tribute to Andok Cotkar 

  On 16 October 2019 Andok Cotkar, Konstantin, from Kiel in Northern Germany fell in an air raid in Serekaniyê, Northern Syria in the course of the war of aggression of NATO member Turkey.
• New photos of Irish hunger striker Bobby Sands discovered 

  Bobby Sands died after 66 days on hunger strike on 5 May 1981 in Long Kesh.
• Bayık: Kurds should not leave their land in the face of invasion 

  KCK Executive Council Co-chairman Cemil Bayık said, indicating that the Turkish state wants to commit a genocide against Kurdish people: "The peoples of North East Syria should resist these attacks and should not leave their land”.
• Images from the village of Coxa in Serêkaniyê 

  The damage caused by the attacks of the Turkish state and mercenaries in the village of Coxa reflected by our cameras.
• KCK on N. Syria: Impositions cannot be accepted, must be rejected 

  The U.S., Russia and all the political powers that are a party to Kurdish genocide will be tried by humanity and history as ‘genocider’, said the KCK.
• Serêkaniyê people: We will go back home - there is no alternative 

  Around 200,000 people have been displaced from their homes since the beginning of the invasion of Northern and Eastern Syria. ANF correspondent Ersin Çaksu has spoken with some of them. Many have found shelter in schools, empty courtyards and mosques."
• Kurdish children in Sweden to boycott school today 

  Kurdish children living in Sweden will carry out a boycott today to condemn the Turkish state invasion of Rojava and the massacres of civilians including children.
• Thousands took to the streets all over Europe 

  Kurds and their friends protested the occupation carried out by Turkey against Northern and Eastern Syria in many cities across Europe.