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• Turkish state cuts water supply to Hesekê once again 

  The Turkish state has once again cut the water supply to the northern Syrian city of Hesekê. The interruption coincides with a phase of extended Turkish attacks on northern and eastern Syria.
• Erdal Eren, forever 17 years old 

  On 13 December, 40 years ago, Erdal Eren was murdered by the Turkish junta. In order to carry out the death sentence against the student, the age of the then 17-year-old had been raised by a court decision.
• Internationalist Commune of Rojava commemorates Michael Panser 

  On 14 December 2018, Michael Panser fell a martyr as a guerrilla fighter of the Kurdish freedom movement as the result of an air raid by Turkey on the Medya defense areas. The Internationalist Commune Rojava commemorates him with a letter and video.
• Turkish government targets Dersim 

  Dersim, with its resistant Alevi-Kurdish population, is permanently targeted by the Turkish state's special war policy. The people in Dersim are to be assimilated through religious orders, associations and pro-government institutions.
• Murat Karayilan: The PKK will ensure accountability 

  Murat Karayilan talked about the violence against Kurdish women by Turkish military and other methods of warfare: "Accountability will be sought for all of this. That is why the PKK stepped onto the stage of world history."
• The wounds of the Cizre massacre are still open 

  At least 288 people lost their life during the curfew in the northern Kurdish city of Cizre in 2015 and 2016. The bodies of 14 people are still missing.
• Protests in South Kurdistan only for salaries? 

  What began a week ago in Sulaymaniyah as a protest by teachers has now developed into a general protest movement in several south Kurdish cities.
• Memorial for Sarah Handelmann in Tübingen 

  Internationalist guerrilla fighter Sarah Handelmann (Sara Dorşîn) would have turned 35 on 25 November. Women Defend Rojava Tübingen used her birthday as an occasion to build a memorial.
• RiseUp4Rojava evaluates the current political-military situation 

  The international campaign RiseUp4Rojava has published an evaluation of the current political and military situation in North-East Syria.
• Turkey ready to send mercenaries from North East Syria to Kashmir 

  After the Turkish-Azerbaijani invasion of the self-governing Armenian region of Nagorno-Karabakh, Turkey is now preparing its jihadist mercenary army to use them against India in the Kashmir region.
• Foza Yûsif: ENKS imposes unacceptable demands 

  PYD Co-Presidency Council member Foza Yûsif said that there is a deadlock in the talks on unity in Rojava, and added that the ENKS "violated the red lines" and "imposed unacceptable demands" by standing with the murderers of the Kurds.
• "All I want is to be able to live a normal life" 

  Ömer Bengi was deported from Romania to Turkey. He was arrested after arriving at Istanbul Airport and released after being questioned.
• Tahir Elçi, a life dedicated to struggle for justice 

  On 28 November 2015, Tahir Elçi, a lawyer and President of Diyarbakır Bar Association, who spent his life defending people from the violence and abuse of the Turkish state repression machine, was murdered in Amed.
• Karayilan: Kurds are the most dynamic force in the Middle East 

  PKK Executive Council member Murat Karayilan said that "today the Kurds are among the most dynamic and decisive forces in the Middle East".
• Activists in Europe celebrate the 42nd anniversary of the PKK 

  The establishment of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (Partiya Karkerên Kurdistanê, PKK), 42 years ago, was celebrated in dozens of places in Europe.
• 42nd anniversary message from the PKK 

  “The 43rd year of the PKK will be a year of great struggle and achievement during which AKP-MHP fascism will be destroyed, Imrali torture and isolation system will be removed, and the occupation of the Turkish Republic will be stopped," said the PKK.
• Turkey hired the KDP to complete the 'Collapse Plan' 

  The essence of the Collapse Plan, a plan of the Turkish state and the United States to eliminate the PKK, incorporates the complete annihilation of the Kurdistan Freedom Movement by attacking it with a genocidal method inspired by the Sri Lanka Model.
• Barzani and the KDP are the spearheads of the counter-revolution 

  A look at the history of the KDP shows that this party has dedicated itself from the beginning to fighting other Kurdish organizations. Even today, Kurds are once again targeted by the KDP.
• Kurdish man Ahmad Soufi dies in Rojhilat aged 138 

  Ahmad Soufi was born in East Kurdistan in 1882 and died in Seqiz at the age of 138, possibly the oldest person in the world.
• Sixteen years ago the murder of 12-year-old Uğur Kaymaz 

  Uğur Kaymaz was 12 when he was hit by thirteen bullets in front of his family's home in Kiziltepe. A Kalashnikov was ‘found’ next to his body and state forces claimed that the murder of Uğur and his father prevented a terrorist attack.
• Why does the US want restructuring of South Kurdistan Peshmerga? 

  The restructuring plans for the Peshmerga are not independent of the regional plans of the USA and serve the goal of breaking the regional influence of Iran.
• Karayilan: Turkey relies on psychological warfare 

  "The guerrilla has neither gone to Armenia nor is it on the verge of disbanding," said Murat Karayilan (PKK). Today war is waged through intelligence services, the Turkish state focuses on psychological warfare, he added.
• Fratricide in South Kurdistan? 

  It would be wrong to call the current developments in Kurdistan and the acute danger we find ourselves in a ‘fratricide’. Because this time it's not siblings who kill each other.
• What does Barzani's statement mean for South Kurdistan? 

  First came the occupation of the strategically important region of Zînê Wêrte by military forces of the KDP, then further troop deployments in the South Kurdish regions of Heftanîn, Xinêre, Goşîne and Helgûrt. Now came the encirclement of the Gare region.
• Lawyer Uysal: Öcalan is a litmus test for the Turkish judiciary 

  Newroz Uysal, lawyer for Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan, speaks about the isolation of her client and the legal, human rights and universal dimensions of Imrali.