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• "Mehmet lives in the collective memory of every Kurdish family" 

  In an interview with ANF, documentary maker Nikola Ivanovski talks about his motivations to make a film about the last few months in the life of Mehmet Aksoy, who died as a member of the YPG Press Center in an ISIS attack in Raqqa.
• Herêm Mehmoud: 65 days of hunger strike in South Kurdistan 

  Herêm Mehmoud has been on hunger strike for 65 days in the town of Kelar in Germiyan. He says to be ready to pay the price for the free lives of the Kurdish people.
• After the victory of the Socialist Party in Spain 

  Right parties saw their expectations to govern frustrated.
• Remembering Taksim Workers' Day massacre 42 years ago 

  The figures regarding the casualties is still a debated issue, although the accredited numbers are of 37 persons killed and over 200 persons being injured.
• A political prisoner’s letter to humanity: “Where is your voice?” 

  Murat Türk, a former guerrilla fighter from Kurdistan, was arrested in 1995 and sentenced to life in prison by a Turkish court. For two months, he has been on hunger strike to protest the prison isolation of the Kurdish representative Abdullah Öcalan.
• Messages of solidarity to Yusuf Iba pour in from around the world 

  Kurdish activist Yusuf Iba went on hunger strike 107 days ago in Toronto demanding the end of isolation against Abdullah Öcalan.
• Prostitution through Turkey in Afrin 

  The invading Turkish state has accelerated the implementation of prostitution and drugs in Afrin as well as turning citizens into spies in recent months.
• Today marks the 104th anniversary of the Armenian Genocide 

  Armenians annually commemorate the Genocide on April 24 at the site of memorials raised by the survivors in all their communities around the world.
• From Amed to Strasbourg... 

  Pelda Arşimet and Ekrem Yapıcı came to France 6 months ago, and will soon hear of a hunger strike in Strasbourg against the isolation of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Hunger striker's mother: I could hardly recognise my son 

  Bayram Demirhan's mother said: "Although he says 'my situation is good' his weight and voice tells us the severity of his situation.”
• Epileptic prisoner on hunger strike since 1 March 

  Selami Keles, a epileptic prisoner in Düzce T Type Closed Prison, has been on hunger strike since 1 March. 
• The tale of a Kurdish refugee family fighting for reunification 

  Two Kurdish brothers reached Ireland and applied for reunification to be joined by their parents and siblings. Their sister though is denied permission to come.
• Gejwer Aydın: Mothers will do whatever for their children fasting 

  One of the prisoners on hunger strike against the isolation regime implemented in Imralı is Mizar Aydın. He is in Tekirdağ F Type Closed Prison and has been on hunger strike for 49 days.
• “ISIS prisoners will either be returned home or tried here” 

  Dr. Abdulkarim Omar, Foreign Affairs Bureau Director of North and East Syria's Autonomous Region, identifies two ways of trying the arrested ISIS members, either locally or in their countries of origin.
• Sinn Féin: The murder of Lyra McKee is an attack on peace process 

  A journalist has been killed amid heavy rioting in the Creggan area of Derry on Thursday night as Crown Force police raided the nationalist area of the city ahead of republican Easter commemorative events.
• Öcalan's lawyer Bilmez: Ending isolation will open way to peace 

  "The sole demand of the hunger strikers is that the Turkish state complies with its own laws and puts an end to the isolation."
• Raise Your Voice for Leyla: Not numbers but women and men fasting 

  The 33-page report by the Raise Your Voice for Leyla Initiative gives a face to those on hunger strike reminding everyone that they are not number but women and men. 
• Bab-centered ISIS organization by the Turkish state 

  The Turkish state is restructuring and reorganizing ISIS under different uniforms and labels, centered around Bab, in Afrin and occupied areas of Shehba as well as in Turkey.
• MIT working to organize ISIS again 

  The Turkish state is working to organize ISIS again in Syria and in Turkey, as well as using ISIS as paramilitary forces,combining the gangs with state forces.
• Foza Yusif: ISIS is not only our problem 

  Kurdish politician Foza Yusif sees the danger of the Islamic terrorist organization ISIS not yet banished. In order to convict the ISIS members who are being held in northern Syria, an international tribunal needs to be set up in the region, she says.
• Turkey: Mass Prosecution of Lawyers 

  Misuse of Terrorism Charge Undermines Fair Trial Rights in Turkey, says Human Rights Watch
• Someone Else's War - when your child joins the war against Isis” 

  Short film commissioned by The Guardian newspaper tells the story of three English volunteers in the International Freedom Battalion fighting ISIS in Syria.
• Six years of YPJ: growing and changing society 

  Six years ago the Women's Defense Units were founded. YPJ spokeswoman Nesrin Abdullah takes a look back to the early days when Kurdish women in Rojava took up arms.
• KCK: AKP-MHP fascism was defeated on March 31 

  KCK: It wasn’t just an election won on March 31, it was AKP-MHP fascism that was defeated. The process after this should be to ensure the removal of this government through anti-war, democratic policies.
• Well-known intellectuals: The isolation of Öcalan must end 

  Well-known names including Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek have called for an end to the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan.