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• HPG/YJA Star guerrillas in Shengal: We will liberate our Leader in 2017 

  HPG/YJA Star guerrillas said "We will liberate Leader Öcalan in 2017 and break the chain on our people and humanity. We will ensure the democratic future of peoples through the freedom of our Leader."
• YPJ General Commander: The Syrian revolution has found its path 

  YPJ General Commander Nesrin Abdullah stated that the Raqqa operation has put the Syrian revolution on its course and added that Turkey has seeped into the Syrian lands and the people like a cancer.
• Turkmen resident from Aleppo: Kurds helped us come back to life 

  Aleppan Turkmen resident Selva pointed out that the Turkmens had to leave their lands due to the attacks of the Turkish state and gangs, and called on the Turkmens for the building of a democratic Syria.
• YPG Commander: Only Kurds put forth a project for a solution in Syria 

  YPG Commander: There are plans made over people’s blood, immoral political scenarios are prepared, but despite all that, MSD and SDF will determine the future of Syria with their political, military and diplomatic efforts.
• Internationalist activists of the Long March call for a united struggle 

  Activists in the “Freedom for Öcalan, Status for Kurdistan” march that started on February 1 and is expected to arrive in Strasbourg tomorrow call on the CPT and the European institutions to fulfill their duties.
• YJŞ commander: YJŞ and YBŞ are the self-defense forces of Êzîdxan 

  YJŞ commander Viyan Hebabî said: Êzidî women are gaining ideological and military consciousness as they join their self-defense force YJŞ and fight.
• Internationalist activists: Time to show solidarity with Kurds, not to talk 

  Internationalist activists attending the Luxembourg-Strasbourg Long March say, “Now it’s time to listen to the Kurds, to understand and to support them, rather than talk. Europe has talked enough. Now it’s time to show solidarity with the Kurds.”
• Geneva Canton MP: If Kurds are supported, Erdoğan can be stopped 

  Geneva Canton MP Batou called for increasing international solidarity with the Kurdish people and said: “If the Kurdish people’s struggle for freedom and democracy is supported, the Erdoğan regime with its fragile structure can be stopped.”
• HPG/YJA Star guerrillas: 2017 will be the year of our Leader’s freedom 

  HPG and YJA Star guerrillas stated that imperialist powers failed to accomplish their goals with the February 15 Conspiracy, and said “2017 will be the end of the fascist AKP state and the year of our Leader’s freedom.”
• Turkey's unrestrained enmity towards Kurds 

  The Turkish army and its affiliate gang groups are beginning to accept defeat in al Bab. However, they began to implement a new plan targeting Efrîn and Shehba because of their enmity towards Kurds as soon as the Bab defeat became visible.
• Rojava and disinformation 

  Disinformation is omnipresent. The propaganda war is in full swing in parallel with that in the field. This war of propaganda is in full activity against the Rojava and its armed forces.
• Commanders in the Raqqa operation: We will triumph 

  Wrath of Euphrates Operation Room Commanders: We will triumph in the third phase just like we did in the previous ones. We now aim to cut off all the roads leading to Raqqa.
• SDF fighters: We'll turn towards wherever there is tyranny and darkness 

  As the Operation Wrath of Euphrates continues, SDF forces announced from the Laqta village, which was taken in the first operation, that they are launching the third stage of the operation to liberate Raqqa from ISIS.
• Karayılan: There must be unity against the wave of fascism 

  Murat Karayılan: All those against fascism in Turkey have to be united against the wave of fascism. If this wave can be stopped, we can reach a bright and peaceful Turkey. If this wave wins, darkness will prevail for long years to come.
• Karayılan: The political stance of Kurdish people has defeated the AKP 

  PKK's Murat Karayılan said: “The Turkish state is the enemy of this people. It is a foreign and colonialist state. They came and forcibly took these lands, and now when the people demand their rights, they attack with all their military force.”
• Internationalist activists to march for Öcalan: Kurds are not alone 

  70 people from 13 countries will march from Luxembourg to Strasbourg from 1 to 11 February to demand freedom for Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Karayılan: AKP-MHP concept based on animosity against Kurds 

  PKK Executive Council Member Murat Karayılan stated that the AKP have defined a purpose for themselves to ensure the Kurdish people aren’t a part of the redesign of the region and that they can defeat the Kurds absolutely.
• Kobanê Resistance: Victory of Ideology 

  At its core, Kobanê Resistance is the victory of ideology and political mentality. Fighters of Kobanê Resistance defeated ISIS with the strength of their ideology and political cause.The ideology and mentality of ISIS was defeated in Kobanê.
• Two YPG fighters of Kobanê resistance: Öcalan Amara and Kandil Yılmaz 

  YPG fighters Öcalan Amara and Kandil Yılmaz that participated in Kobanê resistance recounted their experience for ANF.
• MLKP fighter: Kobanê is the fortress of global resistance and struggle 

  MLKP fighter Cudi Fırat stated that the historic resistance made Kobanê the fortress of global resistance and struggle where human dignity and values are defended.
• People of Raqqa greet freedom fighters with joy 

  People of Raqqa expressed their joy at the decline of ISIS occupation and said they hope that the city of Raqqa will soon be liberated.
• Priest in Serêkaniyê: Peoples' unity is what bounds us to these lands 

  Armenian priest Firez Keşişan, whose ancestors moved to Serêkaniyê during the Armenian genocide of 1928, told ANF about the life in Rojava lands and their loyalty to this territory.
• “We determined our own principles for the solution to the crisis in Syria” 

  Northern Syria Democratic Federation Co-chair Hediye Yusuf: We declared the federation project for the solution to the Syrian crisis, it is a part of the solution. We made this decision together with all the peoples of the Emancipated Northern Syria.
• Wrath of Euphrates Spokesperson: We are avenging all the women 

  Wrath of Euphrates Action Room Spokesperson Cîhan Şêx Ehmed said Raqqa, declared the capital of the caliphate by the ISIS gangs, will be liberated in the leadership and command of women.
• Was Ömer Güney’s death planned? 

  The hitman for the scheme that murdered three revolutionary Kurdish women Ömer Güney died mere weeks before the trial started. But there were no indications that his health was deteriorating up to that day.