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• Bayık: Our main duty is to ensure Leader Öcalan's physical freedom 

  KCK Executive Council Co-chair Cemil Bayık said: "We need to put an end to the conspiracy, ensuring Leader Öcalan's physical freedom. This is our main duty.
• Sabri Ok: No solution to the Kurdish question without the freedom of Öcalan 

  KCK Executive Council member Sabri Ok said that "no solution to the Kurdish question without the freedom of Öcalan."
• Sabri Ok: The fight against isolation must be increased 

  KCK Executive Council member Sabri Ok said that the 9 October conspiracy against Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan still hangs over the Kurds like the sword of Damocles, and that the fight against isolation should be increased.
• Initiative in Austria calls for international protection for Kurds 

  Political asylum is a human right and Turkey is not a safe country. An initiative in Austria supported by political and cultural figures is calling for international protection for Kurds.
• Seyit Evran will always be among us and guide us 

  Seyit Evran left his mark as a revolutionary, intellectual journalist. He lived life to the fullest. He walked over mountains, rivers, mined borders and crossed brutal armies. He will always be among us and guide us.
• Terrorists in Rojava, heroes in Ukraine 

  British volunteers Dan Burke and Sam Newey died in Ukraine and were duly commended for their selfless efforts against Russia. Previously, they were legally prosecuted in England for their links to Rojava.
• Sorxwîn Kobane: ISIS is a danger to humanity itself 

  Sorxwîn Kobane of the leadership of the Federation of the Wounded of War in Northern and Eastern Syria spoke about ISIS, highlighting the security risk that the tens of thousands of ISIS prisoners and families living in camps pose.
• SGDF: Prison won't break young people 

  After their release, the co-chairs of the socialist youth association SGDF in Turkey, Okan Danacı and Yaren Tuncer, spoke about their experiences in prison and said that their fight would increased.
• Seyit Evran, a journalist, a comrade, a friend 

  Seyit Evran not only showed the way, but he also walked it. Heval Seyit was a companion in a never-ending battle, a battle that brought new developments every day and grew ever wider.
• Besê Erzincan: The enemy will not make young people step back 

  More and more young people in Kurdistan want to emigrate to Europe. Besê Erzincan (KJK) analyzed the attacks of capitalist modernity on youth and especially young women.
• Paths to a stateless world democracy discussed at the "New World Embassy: Kurdistan” in Lausanne 

  The Théâtre de Vidy in Lausanne is hosting the "New World Embassy: Kurdistan" this weekend. The alternative embassy offers space for exchange on forms of democracy without a state.
• Karasu: Effects of 12 September 1980 military coup still very big 

  Mustafa Karasu spoke about the lasting effects of the 1980 military coup and the dropping of the case on the Madimak massacre.
• Kurdistan is establishing its own 'embassy' in Lausanne 

  An artistic and political project titled "New World Embassy: Kurdistan" will open today in Lausanne.
• Karasu: The behaviour of the KDP amounts to betrayal 

  Mustafa Karasu spoke about the latest developments in Kurdistan, the betrayal by the KDP and the criticism of CHP MP Tanrıkulu's statements.
• Karasu: The history of humanity is the struggle of women  

  Mustafa Karasu spoke about the first year anniversary of the 'Jin, Jiyan, Azadî' uprisings in East Kurdistan and Iran and said that the most valuable struggle in the world and in the history of humanity is the struggle of women.
• TEV-ÇAND Europe condemns smear campaign against director Yılmaz Güney 

  TEV-ÇAND Europe reiterated in a statement that film director Yılmaz Güney is an important revolutionary personality for Kurdish art and condemned the smear campaign against him.
• Muslim: There is no rebellion against the Autonomous Administration - PART TWO 

  PYD co-chair Salih Muslim said that "there is no rebellion against the Autonomous Administration".
• Muslim warns against a reorganization of ISIS - PART ONE 

  After the completion of the “Security Reinforcement” operation in Deir ez-Zor, PYD co-chair Salih Muslim warned against a reorganization of ISIS and rejected reports of an Arab-Kurdish conflict.
• The truth of the Treaty of Lausanne and its historical impact 

  Abdullah Öcalan: "Either great loneliness or surrender to another reality; this was the great dilemma I called the Kurdish trap. It’s almost like death, like if one would appreciate death."
• PJAK: Handing over our weapons is out of the question 

  The deadline set by Iran for Iraq to disarm Kurdish groups expires next week. According to its co-chair, the PJAK will vehemently defend itself against this. “Handing over our weapons is out of the question,” said Siamand Moini.
• 12 September 1980, a never ending military coup 

  Today marks the 43rd anniversary of the most violent of the military coups suffered by Turkey in the XX and XXI centuries.
• Denial and silence continue one year after the Turkish army burned the bodies of its own soldiers 

  Although exactly one year has passed since the Turkish army burned its soldiers, the destruction, the denial and the silence continue. The traces of this atrocity are still as vivid as on the first day.
• Atabay: We need to fight self-assimilation to increase rate of those speaking in Kurdish 

  Education Sen Wan Branch Co-chair Murat Atabay said that while 90 percent of Kurds spoke Kurdish at home and on the street in the 1920s, today that rate has dropped to 7 percent.
• Öcalan's lawyers prepare to respond to Turkey's answer to UN  

  Asrın Law Office's application to the UN Human Rights Committee about the situation of Abdullah Öcalan and the 3 other prisoners in Imralı is pending. Lawyers are preparing to submit their response to Turkey's answer to the UN.
• Kalkan: Today's festival in Europe is very important, cultural events should be organized every day 

  Kalkan said that the Kurdish Culture Festival that will take place today in Germany is very important and added that in Europe "there should be cultural activities every day."