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• PYD’s Muslim evaluates 2018 for North and East Syria 

  Salih Muslim, Head of Foreign Relations for the PYD evaluated the diplomatic efforts of 2018 in North and East Syria and said, the New Year’s diplomacy will be conducted based on resolving Syrian crisis and the liberation of Afrin.
• Intense traffic in Arima against occupation 

  Following the intense diplomatic traffic that started in the Moscow-Damascus and Northern Syria line after the Turkish threats of occupation, Syria and Russia sent forces to Arima town in al-Bab and started to act together with the self-defense forces.
• PKK guerrilla from Germany: I saw that another life is possible 

  Besê Olrika is a 23-year-old German woman. As a leftist activist she got to know the PKK. She went to Rojava and then into the Kurdistan mountains. Now she is a guerrilla fighter for the YJA star.
• PKK’s Karayilan: Trump’s decision didn’t surprise us 

  PKK Executive Committee Member Murat Karayilan said US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from Syria wasn’t a surprise for them.
• Stories of Roboski victims 

  The pain is still fresh in Roboskî and the smiles are still partial. The walls with photographs of the deceased are decorated as if to complete the lives that are lacking.
• Roboski massacre, seven years ago 

  On 28 December 2011, 34 people, including nineteen under 18, died as a result of Turkish warplanes bombardment. Families are still demanding justice and the truth.
• TEV-DEM’s Koçer talks about possible scenarios for Syria 

  Koçer: “America's strategy in Syria is entering a new phase. They are closing the DAESH strategy. They are trying to develop a new war strategy in Syria.”
• “Peoples’ Joint Democratic Front is the way out of the crisis" 

  ‘Peoples’ Joint Democratic Front’ is a major strategy for the transition from the current crisis, said KODAR Co-chair Fuad Beritan.
• Syriac Officials: Our people have alternatives 

  Syriac officials in the Northern and Eastern Syrian administration and military forces spoke about Turkey's threats and the US decision to withdraw from Syria, stating that peoples are not without alternatives and they have new projects in progress.
• Footprint of US Secretary of Defense in arms trade with Turkey 

  According to reports related to the sale of weapons by the United States, most of the airplanes and helicopters used by the Turkish Air Force are American.
• KCK: US withdrawal from Syria will not weaken the struggle 

  Referring to the withdrawal decision of the US from Syria as a "rescue operation for the fascist AKP/MHP government" KCK said: "The new balance of power will lead the Turkish invasion to a defeat."
• Call from Swiss medic in Rojava 

  A Swiss medic working in the military hospital in Heseke called for civil disobedience actions against European weapons manufacturers so they stop providing weapons to the Turkish state.
• Karayılan: Erdoğan considers the killing of the Kurds a success 

  PKK’s Karayılan: “The genocidal attacks against Maxmur and Shengal was not carried out by Turkey alone. If support is not given, it is difficult to attack the areas with 20 jets without having received the green light for it.”
• Muslim: We didn’t call them, we’re not sending them away 

  Salih Muslim stated that the US decision to withdraw from Syria is sudden in regards to the conditions they announced earlier and added: “We didn’t call them, and we’re not sending them away. They weren’t here to protect us in any case.”
• KCK's Karasu: Turkey can’t take us out, or defeat us 

  "Our goals cause a panic in Ankara, because we fight for the democratization of the Middle East, for women’s rights, for minorities, and against nationalism", said KCK executive Mustafa Karasu.
• "Turkey’s ‘Union and Progress’ mentality poses a serious threat" 

  PYD Foreign Relations Officer Salih Muslim pointed out that the Turkish state has updated the Union and Progress mentality and now poses a serious threat against both Kurds and the Middle East. 
• Bombing a refugee camp with jets 

  Following the invasion threats against Northern and Eastern Syria, the Makhmur Refugee Camp and Shengal were attacked with fighter jets.
• Did Hakan Fidan have Idlib on the agenda in the US visit? 

  Erdogan’s threats of invasion yesterday are not to be ignored. The declaration of mobilization by the Northern and Eastern Syrian Autonomous Administration shows the extent and reach of the threat.
• Bayık: Truth is the opposite of what Erdogan says 

  “They can lie as much as they want, they can show things upside down as much as they want but they can no longer deceive anyone, they cannot cover the reality of fascism. For this reason, Erdoğan's discourses are of no value.”
• Bayık: PKK is a people, not a movement, it is the soul of Kurds 

  KCK Executive Council Co-Chair Cemil Bayık analysed the latest situation in the Middle East and Kurdistan and said: “The PKK is not a movement, it is a people”.
• Bayık: PUK must not accept foreign forces’ blackmail 

  Speaking on the closure of Tevgera Azadî offices, Cemil Bayık said the PUK must rectify its action.
• Five months under Turkish torture 

  M.S. and son C.S. were unable to leave their village after the Turkish state invaded Afrin, and were subjected to torture for five months. The family spoke about their experience and what they witnessed.
• “Project for new party” from PKK deserter to MIT 

  Aydin Gunel, one of the MIT administrators who was arrested by the HPG, said PKK deserter Nizamettin Tas met with the heads of the MIT Operations Bureau and the MIT Coordination Bureau and offered them “an alternative party to the PKK”.
• The PKK foundation in Sakine Cansız's words 

  On the day in which the PKK was formed, 39 years ago, ANF reprints excerpts of an interview in which Sakine Cansız, who co-founded the party, remembers the atmosphere of those years, the feelings, the hope and the first congress.
• Arabisation policy in Kirkuk exposed 

  “The political parties should recognise the Kurds in this region. If not, the people here will be deprived of the right to see themselves as belonging to this region”.