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• Turkish state prepares for annexation of occupied territories 

  As with the annexation of Hatay, Turkey is preparing to annex the territories it has occupied in northern Syria. To this end, Turkish officials are appointed as councillors and subordinate administrative bodies in invaded areas.
• Turkey uses Turkmen ISIS members 

  The Turkish state has brought Turkmen ISIS members and their families from refugee camps in Azaz and Idlib to Turkey and released them.
• Young man from Dirbêsiyê: Turkey has removed my kidney 

  Syrian Basil Mihemed Nezir, who was shot by Turkish soldiers at the border and taken to Kızıltepe State Hospital for treatment, stated that his kidney was stolen while he was in hospital and called on international human rights organizations to investigat
• The world's longest curfew: Sur 

  Indeed the curfew of Sur never ended. Four years on, it is still ongoing. So is the resistance: the heroic defense of Amed's district is being perpetuated by the names given to the children born in the last 4 years: Çiyager, Roza, Rozerin, Reber, Delil.
• Turkish ISIS member: Turkey’s soldiers helped us cross the border 

  An ISIS member from Turkey arrested in Northern Syria reports in detail in an ANF interview how Turkish policemen and soldiers helped him to cross the border into the "Islamic state".
• A lifetime of struggle: Tahir Elçi 

  On 28 November 2015, Tahir Elçi, the lawyer and Amed Bar Association President, who spent his life defending people from the violence and abuse of the Turkish state repression machine, was murdered in Amed.
• PKK: We will fight stronger and win bigger in our new year 

  PKK called upon the peoples of Turkey, Iran, Iraq, Syria and the entire Middle East, the oppressed humanity and all revolutionary-democratic forces to develop a common democratic struggle against fascism and the system of capitalist modernity.
• Çiyager's poem, the art of Rûbar Şervan! 

  You can understand better why Rûbar became an actor if I answer the question ‘which kind of actors we were looking for’. I was looking for amateur actors because we wanted to capture authentic emotions.
• “We are the mountains of the Kurds” 

  Here are some voices from the “mountains” for those who have set in motion a movement of mountains that awakens hope for all the undeceived of this world.
• KCK's Bayik: To stand up for Rojava alone is not a solution 

  People around the world show solidarity with Rojava, but that is not enough. Something must also be done for Northern Kurdistan, because this is where the destruction campaign of the Turkish state has its starting point, says Cemil Bayik of the KCK.
• KCK's Bayik: Third World War taking place in the Middle East 

  "Both the USA and Russia have sacrificed the Kurds to their own interests and cleared the way for Turkey. Turkey is being used by them against the Kurds," explained Cemil Bayik of the KCK in a TV analysis.
• Turkey's "30 kilometers obsession" 

  The wave of genocidal policies initiated by the Ottoman Empire against the Assyrians and Chaldeans and the ancient peoples of Mesopotamia on the eve of the First World War continues today in Rojava.
• Internationalist Commune of Rojava remembers Seyit Rıza 

  This 15th November 2019 mark the 82nd anniversary of the execution of Seyit Riza by the Turkish state. The internationalist commune of Rojava published this article to remember him and his fight against the oppressors.
• Sassoli: Killings of civilians and prisoners are war crimes 

  Professor Marco Sassoli, an expert in international humanitarian law, said that Turkey in Northern and Eastern Syria is acting in violation of international law.
• Del Ponte: UN failed, West betrayed the Kurds 

  Del Ponte said that the role of the UN in the war in Syria had actually to do only with humanitarian aid. The UN has done nothing to bring peace to Syria, she said.
• Assyrian-Syriac fighters: We will defend our people and land 

  Fighters of the Syriac Military Council and Khabour Guards declare that they will defend the Til Temir region and its people against the Turkish invasion.
• Turkish MIT works on resettlement from Central Asia to Rojava 

  The Turkish secret service MIT and the Migration Service are working together to colonize a five-kilometer-wide strip between the occupied Serêkaniyê and Girê Spî with the families of the SNA militiamen.
• We must reach national unity: We can't lose another century 

  Former HDP Şırnak deputy Ferhat Encü and HDP Van deputy Murat Sarısaç talked about the need of national unity.
• Teachers in Dirbesiyê: Education is one of the victims of war 

  Teachers in Dirbesiyê said that students are among the victims of the Turkish occupation attacks against Rojava and that the occupation was an obstacle to education.
• Hundreds of thousands displaced because of Turkish invasion 

  Hundreds of thousands of people were forced to leave their homes because of the Turkish state invasion of North East Syria. Over 159,721 people emigrated to Hesekê and Raqqa provinces alone.
• PYD's Hesen: We're always ready to negotiate with Damascus-Part 2 

  PYD co-chair Shaoz Hesen, talks about the current state of things in Syria.
• Global call to defend the Rojava Revolution 

  “We salute all the actions and demonstrations happening in solidarity with Rojava and send our warmest greeting to those who are supporting the campaigns of #RiseUp4Rojava and #WomenDefendRojava."
• Interview with PYD co-chair Hesen - PART ONE 

  PYD co-chair, Shaoz Hesen, talks about the current state of things in Syria. 
• The Importance of What Is Happening to the Kurds 

  We publish an article by Hungarian philosopher Gâspâr Miklôs Tamâs who calls for support for the Kurdish cause, saying that especially Turks should support their Kurdish brothers and sisters, as neither oppression nor freedom have a race or an ethnicity.
• Internationalist Commune pays tribute to Andok Cotkar 

  On 16 October 2019 Andok Cotkar, Konstantin, from Kiel in Northern Germany fell in an air raid in Serekaniyê, Northern Syria in the course of the war of aggression of NATO member Turkey.