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• Turkish soldiers flee their emplacements upon raid by guerrillas 

  Footage by ANF shows the raid conducted by HPG and YJA Star guerrillas on Turkish troops in Oremar region at the border of Hakkari's Yüksekova district last week.
• Captured ISIS member: Turkey planned the recent attacks on Rojava 

  ISIS gangs had attacked the towns of Girê Spi and Siluk on February 27, and the clashes in 25 different locations had lasted 2 days. Hundreds of ISIS gangs were killed and tens of gangs were captured during the attacks.
• Moslem: We focus on federalism based on folks - PART II 

  "Turkey has already forgotten about the history and geography. This is why it is losing today. We hope it will correct this mistake of its", said PYD co-chair Saleh Moslem.
• Moslem: We have evidences of Turkey's involvement in Girê Spî attack - PART I 

  PYD co-chair Saleh Moslem said they had documents proving Turkey's involvement in ISIS' attack on Girê Spî, and stressed that Turkey is making a mistake that it must correct in the face of its repeated failure.
• Cemil Bayık: Kurds are not property of the Turkish state 

  KCK Executive Council Co-President Cemil Bayık noted that Kurdish people would not acknowledge the government and the state as long as the state does not acknowledge Kurdish people’s self-administration and Turkey does not democratize.
• Ehmed: Three federal regions will be formed in Syria - PART II 

  Syrian Democratic Council (MSD) Co-President İlham Ehmed said it is now being discussed about a federal system in Syria in which Kurds in Federal Northern Syria will sustain an autonomous organisation in the system they have been building.
• Ehmed: Nobody can question where the SDF will advance – PART I 

  Syrian Democratic Council (MSD) Co-President İlham Ehmed stressed that Turkey does not want the formation of a political will and the solution of the problems in Rojava.
• Turkish army defectors in the PKK: Fight for freedom, not slavery 

  Two young former soldiers who joined the PKK called upon everyone to not serve in the Turkish military and join the guerrillas’ freedom struggle against brutality.
• SDF Commander: Shaddadi operation brings closer the end of ISIS 

  SDF Commander Simko Çele stated that the Shaddadi operation would cripple ISIS and bring its end closer.
• 15 February 1999: The capture of Abdullah Öcalan 

  On 15 February 1999, Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan was captured in Kenya by Turkish special agents acting in connection with CIA and Mossad, while en route from the Greek embassy to Nairobi airport.
• International delegation to arrive in Turkey for a visit to Öcalan 

  An international delegation led by Essa Moosa has planned a three-day visit to Turkey on February 14th to contribute efforts for the ending of the isolation on the Kurdish leader and the ongoing war in North Kurdistan.
• PYD co-chair Moslem: We won't recognise a Geneva-3 excluding Kurds 

  PYD co-chair Saleh Moslem stressed that it was not only Turkey but also some other forces that didn't want the participation of Kurds in the Geneva-3 meeting to avoid their attainment of political status.
• Karayılan: Erdoğan will be called to account for this atrocity 

  PKK Executive Committee Member Murat Karayılan saluted the popular resistance in Cizre and Sur, and vowed that they will call perpetrators of the massacre against Kurdish women, children and youths to account.
• HDP invites Chomsky to Kurdistan 

  HDP Şırnak MP Faysal Sarıyıldız has invited American philosopher Professor Noam Chomsky who rejected Erdoğan's invitation to Turkey, has invited Chomsky to Kurdistan to see the situation at scene.
• Chomsky: Courageous stand of Kurds should gain the deserved support 

  Noam Chomsky pointed out that Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan is renewing some of the most harsh and brutal policies that the Turkish state has carried out against Kurdish rights.
• QSD combatants: We'll continue fighting until whole Syria is liberated 

  Combatants of the YPG led Syrian Democratic Forces participating in the Tishrin operation stressed that their fight against ISIS and allied groups will continue until the whole Syrian territory is cleared.
• Mandate of state terror in the Kurdish region signed by Davutoğlu 

  It came out that the AKP government has initiated the state terror in the Kurdish region on the basis a mandate which was signed by Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu and sent to offices of all governors in August.
• Demirtaş: We want to play a role to overcome the Turkey-Russia crisis 

  HDP co-chair Selahattin Demirtaş said their meeting with Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov was positive, and also witnessed a discussion of Kurdish people's demand to exist with self-rule status.
• Karayılan: Kurdish people's struggle has entered a new phase 

  PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party) Executive Council Committee Member Murat Karayılan stressed that the Turkish state wants to seize the will of Kurdish people, and vowed to continue the resistance in response to the attacks.
• Judge Moosa: Öcalan is the undisputed leader of majority of Kurds 

  Judge Essa Moosa said the resolution of the conflict in Turkey, Iraq and Syria through dialogue and negotiations may offer the Kurdish people an opportunity to assert their right to self-determination not only in those countries but also in Iran.
• Nobel laureate, former President of East Timor: Öcalan must be free 

  Former President of East Timor, José Ramos Horta, stated that one first step towards a process of genuine dialogue in Turkey is for all sides to stop military campaigns, Ankara to release of Abdullah Öcalan and other prisoners.
• Moslem: Turkey's policy focused on maintaining ties with ISIS 

  PYD co-chair Saleh Moslem underlined that; “Those who consider any act rightful when it is a matter of their own sovereignty, are freely violating the sovereignty of others. It is not clear why Turkey has sent troops to Mosul."
• TEV-DEM Executive: Turkey sustains its relations with the Baath regime 

  TEV-DEM Executive Council member Bedran Çiyakurd said the defeat of ISIS gangs has frustrated the plans of the Turkish state which mobilized gang groups in Azaz, Efrîn and Aleppo in order to gain a place in the Syrian politics.
• Biehl: AKP abjured the peace process with Kurds to regain a majority 

  "The Turkish state has spent most of the past few decades trying to stamp out Kurdish people's desires for basic cultural and linguistic and political and human rights", said independent author Janet Biehl.
• '400 Turkish soldiers situated around Azaz, Jarablus and Aleppo' 

  "In Jarablus area and especially near Turkey border, ISIS and other groups are provided with all kinds of aid including military equipment, transfer of militants and logistic support", says Sami Ali, Expert on Arabs and the Middle East,