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• Van Mayor called on the UN to follow trustees appointment process 

  Mayor Ertan was prevented from traveling to Geneva and attending the conference in person.
• SDF Commander General: We will not accept Erdoğan’s threats 

  SDF Commander General Mazlum Abdi Kobanê stressed that they will take no steps outside of the agreement made.
• Kobanê and Rojava universities are growing 

  There are a total of 22 departments in Rojava and Kobanê universities. In addition there is a strong interest in both universities from Arab population from Raqqa, Tabqa, Manbij and Dêir ez-Zor.
• Portuguese ISIS member under SDF arrest for 6 months 

  Nero Saraiva from Portugal is one of the first European fighters to arrive in Syria and join the terrorist organization in 2012.
• HPG calls out to families of Turkish soldiers under their arrest 

  HPG Commander Mahir Deniz stated that the AKP-MHP government did nothing to reunite the Turkish soldiers under HPG custody with their families. Deniz said the government furthermore ignored this issue and avoided discussing it.
• Leyla Güven: Chaos is being organized again 

  Kurdish politician Leyla Güven said that visits to Abdullah Öcalan are no longer regularly approved and a chaos is organized: "If it continues like this, a coup mechanism mentioned by Öcalan could be set in motion again."
• Trees planted in Switzerland in memory of Rojava martyrs 

  Forest dedicated to the martyrs of the Rojava Revolution.
• New Academic Year begins in Northern and Eastern Syria 

  The preparations of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria for the 2019-2020 academic year have been completed and today hundreds of thousands of students and tens of thousands of teachers will be going to their classes across the region.
• 50,000 NO in Bilbao to criminalisation of defense of prisoners 

  Some 50,000 people took to the streets in Bilbao against the macro trial that will start on Monday in Madrid against 47 Basque citizens for their defense of the rights of prisoners.
• PKK’s Karayılan: Nobody is abducted to join the guerrilla 

  Murat Karayılan of the PKK commented on the staged protests in front of the HDP headquarters in Amed, stressing that; "We are an ideological movement based on voluntary participation. We do not hold anyone against his will."
• 46 MEPs to Erdoğan: Election results must be respected  

  The Members of the European Parliament expressed concern at the new announcement by Erdogan of "further orders to remove elected officials.
• Sing, play, paint or do something for Hasankeyf! 

  Today is Global Action Day for Hasankeyf. Organisers invited people to "sing, play, paint or do something for Hasankeyf".
• PKK’s Karayılan: Cizre massacre ordered by Erdoğan 

  Murat Karayılan of the PKK has commented on Ahmet Davutoğlu's knowledge of the bloody series of attacks between June 7 and November 1, 2015 in Turkey and North Kurdistan.
• Argentine justice reopens the case of Santiago Maldonado 

  The Federal Chamber of Comodoro Rivadavia ordered the reopening of the case on the disappearance and death of Santiago Maldonado, following the police intervention against a protest in the territory of the Mapuche Cushamen community, in August 2017.
• Wallerstein: The chaos will not go on forever 

  In his message to the Hamburg Conference where Öcalan’s ideas were discussed in 2012, Wallerstein summarized the current world order and proposed the ways out.
• A Sage of Our Times – Immanuel Wallerstein 

  Wallerstein stood firmly on the side of the oppressed people around the world. He was widely read in Kurdistan, and many of the concepts he developed over time have proved very influential on the thinking of freedom-loving people in the Middle East.
• Tragedy of refugees in Van continues 

  The influx of refugees to Van continues. Hundreds of refugees have been struggling to survive for months at Van Intercity Bus Station.
• Michael Panser: Good luck to you all! 

  Guerrilla fighter Michael Panser tells of his ideas of a contemporary revolution and his experiences in the free mountains of Kurdistan in a video recorded in autumn 2018.
• HDP mayors write to European mayors about trustees 

  The dismissed mayors said: "We acknowledge this decision as a government coup -- the last one in a chain of attacks of the Erdogan regime in recent years against pluralist democracy, against the Kurdish democratic will in particular."
• HDP's Gülüm: In a country without rule of law, resisting is a right 

  HDP Deputy Züleyha Gülüm stated that it is not possible to discuss the AKP political coup on a legal basis and stressed that when there is no law in a country, it is right to resist.
• Leyla Güven called for unity of Kurds at Van meeting 

  Thousands of people attended the 1 September World Peace rally in Van where the Confederation of Public Workers' Trade Unions (KESK) Co-Chair Mehmet Bozgeyik and Democratic Society Congress (DTK) Co-Chair Leyla Güven addressed the crowd.
• Julie Ward MEP sends solidarity message to Amed Peace rally 

  British European deputy Julie Ward has sent a video message to the rally in Amed ahead of today's rally for World Peace Day.
• KCK's Hozat: War is the most terrible invention of the male mind 

  KCK Executive Council Co-Chair Bêsê Hozat: The AKP is the mentality against democracy and freedom at its best.
• UK actress Maxine Peake sends message to World Peace Day in Amed 

  UK actress Maxine Peake sent video message to World Peace Day Rally in Amed.
• MEP Ward: Action needed to save Hasankeyf - Part 2 

  "There is not enough awareness at European level of the tragic situation in Hasankeyf. There has, however, been an increased awareness of the loss of significant cultural heritage due to ISIS' destruction of iconic monuments such as those at Palmyra."