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• Sozdar Avesta: Returning to Shengal is the best answer 

  "The massacre committed by ISIS in Shengal on 3 August 2014 was planned by Erdogan and his collaborators. What happened in Shengal was the tragedy of the 21st century," says Sozdar Avesta of the KCK Presidential Council.
• Turkish 'coalition' helps ISIS members to escape 

  Some 68,000 people currently live in Hol Camp, including 30,000 ISIS jihadists with their families.
• Foza Yûsif: The Rojava Revolution is a milestone for women 

  On the occasion of the 8th anniversary of the 19 July Rojava Revolution, PYD Co-Presidency Council member Foza Yûsif talked to ANF.
• MIT conducts trade over ISIS women 

  According to a source from the security forces in the autonomous region of northeast Syria, the Turkish secret service MIT abducts ISIS women from internment camps to sell them to their families.
• Yûsif: The Rojava Revolution marks the Middle East renaissance  

  "ISIS, this enemy of humanity was defeated by the common struggle of all humanity. The revolution has greatly influenced humanity in terms of ideas, politics and culture."
• Call for participation in Rojava Revolution Days of Action 

  Women Defend Rojava, Internationalist Commune, Make Rojava Green Again and RiseUp4Rojava issued a statement inviting everyone to celebrate the Rojava Revolution on 18 and 19 July.
• AKP builds mosques in front of ruins of Armenian churches  

  The AKP government's hate policy towards different beliefs and cultures continues to show itself.
• The prison resistance of 14 July 1982, a source of inspiration 

  On 14 July 1982, Mehmet Hayri Durmuş, Kemal Pir, Akif Yılmaz and Ali Çiçek went on death fast. It would be a historic and inspiring resistance and its legacy is still very much alive today.
• Historic, seismic, left: The vote in the Basque Country & Galicia 

  Historic and seismic. Two adjectives that well describe what happened in the elections in the Basque Country and Galicia. But there is a third adjective which must be added as it properly qualifies the other two: left.
• The Sociology of Freedom by Abdullah Öcalan available in English 

  The Sociology of Freedom is a truly monumental work that gives profuse evidence of Abdullah Öcalan’s position as one of the most influential thinkers of our day.
• Palo talks about Palme murder and its consequences for Kurds 

  Zülküf Palo, one of the HPG commanders who had been detained in Sweden for a long time, talked to ANF about the murder, 34 years ago, of former Swedish Prime Minister Olof Palme.
• Guerrilla Amara Roj, one of those who left their mark in Heftanîn 

  The cultural assimilation and physical genocide imposed on the Kurds for centuries continues through the employment of all imaginable techniques.
• Orhan Family: We won't give up the struggle for justice and truth 

  When Adnan Orhan was just 11 years old, his father, uncle and cousin were taken into custody and murdered. He knows that the perpetrator is the State, and that all governments cover this up. "We won't give up the struggle for truth and justice."
• "Turkey brings Syrian mercenaries from Libya to South Kurdistan" 

  Mercenaries from Syria are streaming into Libya in two ways: one is sent through Turkey, the other through Russia. 2,000 of them have been withdrawn to Ankara for a mission in Southern Kurdistan. They are paid with EU money.
• Memories of guerrilla Şîyar Gabar 

  German guerrilla fighter Jakob Riemer (Şîyar Gabar) lost his life two years ago in a Turkish airstrike on Çarçella in northern Kurdistan. Hêlîn Şîyar remembers him.
• 'Our presence scares the enemy', says guerrilla Tolhildan 

  YJA Star guerrilla Canfeda Tolhildan, located in Cenga Heftanîn, said that the invading Turkish army showed the attack organized on 16 June as targeting an area where guerrillas are, but in reality it targeted all the territories of South Kurdistan.
• In memory of internationalist Kevin Jochim 

  Internationalist Kevin Jochim died in Northern Syria in the fight against the ISIS five years ago. The Internationalist Commune of Rojava remembers him.
• Kongra Star publishes dossier on 3 women murdered in Kobanê 

  The dossier speaks about the role of Zehra Berkel, Hebûn Mele and Emîna Weysî, who were murdered in a targeted drone attack carried out by the Turkish state on 23 June in the village of Helincê, Kobanê.
• YJA Star guerrillas: Resistance will win! 

  YJA Star guerrillas Arin Hilvan and Ruken Serhat take part in the Heftanîn Revolutionary Operation.
• An HPG guerrilla in the Heftanîn Operation, Çekdar Amed 

  Çekdar Amed is one of the HPG guerrillas who resisted with great determination and believed in victory in Heftanîn.
• Lawyer Baran: Law is not working in Imralı  

  The aggravated isolation imposed Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan continues.
• Is the PKK the reason or the result? 

  It is not the existence of the PKK that is the reason why the Turkish state attacks Kurds, but the fact that the Turkish state attacks Kurds is the reason for the existence of the PKK, comments journalist Meral Çiçek from Sulaymaniyah.
• Revolutionary perspective on Corona and the ecological crisis 

  Different groups of the campaign "Make Rojava Green Again" in Northern Syria and six European countries express themselves in videos about a revolutionary perspective on Corona and the ecological crisis.
• Attack on Heftanin: A regional and international plan 

  Turkey has been attacking Southern Kurdistan for many years. Since 15 June, the occupation attacks have reached a new level. The invasion plan and its international actors are becoming clearer with every day.
• Ireland's new government: A shameful marriage of convenience 

  Fianna Fáil leader Micheál Martin is the new 26 County Taoiseach with 93 votes in favour, 63 against and three abstentions.