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• The importance of city partnership between Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg and Derik  

  In 2019, a city partnership between Berlin Friedrichshain-Kreuzberg and Derik was established. RIC spoke to Berivan Hussain and Ciwan Hassan, the co-chairs of the people’s municipality of Derik, about the partnership.
• Sabri Ok: The Turkish state is drowning as a result of the war against Kurds 

  Sabri Ok said that "the Turkish state is drowning as a result of this war. Its economy has collapsed. Erdoğan has reached the ending point."
• Earthquake survivor Şahin: I have a right to live like a human being 

  Fehime Şahin still lives in a tent a year after the severe earthquake with its epicentre in North Kurdistan. She has little food, is seriously ill and has to survive on very little money.
• Sabri Ok: Cologne march is very important and will affect our future 

  Sabri Ok said today's march in Cologne to demand freedom for Kurdish people's leader Öcalan is very important.
• Raúl Zibechi: Abdullah Öcalan, a quarter of a century in prison 

  Zibechi wrote that "Öcalan and the perseverance of the Kurdish people helped to spread the philosophy of a movement that was little known 25 years ago and that today, with zapatismo, represents the greatest hope for the peoples of the world"
• Kalkan: Let's increase the campaign for Öcalan's freedom and the solution of the Kurdish question 

  Kalkan said that "success and victory will be for those who resist the conspiracy and the Imrali system for freedom."
• Kalkan: The Imrali system is a genocide system 

  Duran Kalkan said, in an extensive analysis, that "the international conspiracy and the Imrali system of torture, isolation and genocide have been exposed in every detail."
• The International Conspiracy in Abdullah Öcalan's words 

  Abdullah Öcalan writes widely in 'The PKK and the Kurdish Question in the 21st Century' about his decision to come to Europe and about the international conspiracy which led to his abduction in Kenya on 15 February 1999.
• International Initiative: Öcalan’s Freedom Is Your Freedom 

  Öcalan’s Freedom Is Your Freedom
• Sabri Ok: Öcalan's new paradigm was the best answer to the international conspiracy 

  Sabri Ok said that "the International Conspiracy is continuing today."
• Karasu: The paradigm of Rêber Apo is an example for Turkey, an example for the world 

  Mustafa Karasu said that "the paradigm of Abdullah Öcalan is an example for Turkey, an example for the world."
• Karasu: The freedom of Leader Öcalan is the freedom of the Kurdish people 

  Mustafa Karasu said that Abdullah Öcalan took the greatest revenge in history on those who carried out the International Conspiracy by introducing a paradigm that eliminated their reason for existence.
• Avesta: We are closer than ever to achieve Öcalan's freedom 

  Sozdar Avesta said that the campaigns to free Öcalan are reaching their goal.
• Sozdar Avesta calls for broad participation in 17 February's march for Öcalan in Cologne 

  Sozdar Avesta, member of the KCK Presidential Council, called for broad participation in the demonstration that will demand freedom for Abdullah Öcalan on 17 February in Cologne.
• Lawyer Bilmez: We need to increase international solidarity to break this severe isolation  

  At the conference taking place in Bilbao, Öcalan's lawyer, Ibrahim Bilmez, said that international solidarity needs increased in order to break this severe isolation and thus pave the way for the solution of the Kurdish question through democratic means.
• The future promised by YPJ women against ISIS 

  While the YPJ's determined stance, claim and efforts for social transformation show that a future respecting human dignity is possible, ISIS' cruelty and human exploitation reveal the darkest darkness.
• One year after the earthquake, wounds have not healed, promises have not been kept 

  Although a year has passed since the earthquakes centred in Bazarcix and Elbistan, which hit 11 provinces of Bakurê Kurdistan and Turkey, wounds have not healed and promises have not been kept.
• The Turkish nation state’s culture of lies 

  The Turkish nation and state have been constructed with lies, from religion to philosophy and art, from mythology to science, and the traditional social mentality and its history have been imposed.
• Ehmed: The rulers see organized and free women as dangerous 

  Zelal Zagros fought for women's liberation. She was murdered by the Turkish state on 18 January. "The rulers see organized and free women as dangerous," said Rûken Ehmed.
• The misery of the Barzanis and the KDP 

  The Barzanis and the KDP impose surrender and collaborationism the people of the region, who, however, resist against Turkey’s occupation operation, and the most concrete symbol of this is the guerrilla Helmet from Dêreluk, who fought heroically and fell
• Lawyer Kroker: Federal Prosecutor's Office may open an Afrin investigation 

  Patrick Kroker, one of the lawyers who applied to the Federal Prosecutor's Office in Germany regarding the crimes of the Turkish state in Afrin, said that an investigation could be opened.
• Erdoğan trying to build a world coalition against the Kurds 

  Turkey is using the contradictions and crisis in the Middle East to eliminate the Kurds. On the one hand, Erdoğan welcomes the Iranian president in Ankara and signs economic and other agreements. On the other hand, he signs Sweden's accession to NATO.
• Dr. Ebîr Hessaf: Turkey tries to change the demography of Northern and Eastern Syria 

  Dr. Ebîr Hessaf from the Women's Council of Northern and Eastern Syria spoke about the Turkish state's attempts to change the demography of the region and called for a joint fight against the displacement and settlement policies.
• The controversial US presence in the Middle East and possible scenarios for Rojava 

  The withdrawal of the US from Iraq and Syria would not only lead to serious problems in the fight against ISIS, but would also mean that the psychological superiority in the Middle East would be lost to Iran.
• Ramon Mantovani tells of Öcalan's days in Rome - Part Two 

  "If there is a real leader in the world today who is equal to Nelson Mandela, it is President Abdullah Öcalan. His freedom could put an end to the war."