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• Clashes between HPG and Turkish army in Hakkari and Bingöl 

  The HPG Press Office released a statement on guerrilla actions against the Turkish army. Several Turkish soldiers were reportedly killed.
• 28 Turkish soldiers killed in North Kurdistan 

  Clashes between People’s Defence Forces (HPG) guerrillas and Turkish army left 28 Turkish soldiers killed, according to the statement of HPG Press and Communication Centre.
• Slain Kurdish villager denied religious service by the state 

  Turkish officials blocked religious service for a Kurdish civilian who was killed in a drone strike in Hakkari, yesterday.
• Eye witnesses: Villagers were shot by a drone 

  A Turkish drone attacked four Kurdish villagers, killing one and wounding three others witnesses say.
• Turkish drone attack killed 1 civilian, wounded 3 others 

  A Turkish drone attack killed 1 civilian and wounded 3 others in Hakkari.
• Kak Fuad lives in the hearts of Kurdish people 

  38 years passed since the martyrdom of Fuad Mistefa Sultani, a revolutionary from East Kurdistan who resisted against Shah regime and the mullahs after the Islamic Revolution.
• The August 31 betrayal: Occupation of Hewlêr with Saddam's tanks 

  21 years have passed since the Masooud Barzani, who says that he will create a Kurdish state, invaded the city of Hewlêr with support from Iraqi dictator Saddam Huseyin.
• Fierce clashes between HPG and Turkish army in Hakkari 

  People’s Defence Units (HPG) guerrillas targeted various military positions in Hakkari.
• GerillaTV released footage of action against Turkish army 

  GerillaTV released a footage of guerrilla action against Turkish army in Sirnak on August 16.
• Turkish officials do nothing to stop forest fire in Hakkari 

  Forest fire in rural Semdinli, a district of Hakkari province continues for the second day.
• "Turkish troops in Southern Kurdistan pose a threat to the Kurds" 

  KJK’s Pîroz Nûda drew attention to the bases of the Turkish military in Southern Kurdistan and said: "The presence of Turkish soldiers in South Kurdistan poses a great threat to the Kurds."
• Amed's poor children 

  The problem of children working/made to work in the streets, which has increased dramatically due to the forced migration in Amed, has become more evident than ever after the demolition of the historic district Sur and the destruction of houses.
• Satellite images show extent of destruction in Kurdish cities 

  The satellite images show the extent of Turkish army’s destruction of Kurdish cities during popular resistance in 2015-16 in Nusaybin, Sur and Sirnak.
• Fire in Turkish military operation zone in Şemdinli 

  Fire broke out in the area of the Turkish military operation in Şapatan village of Şemdinli.
• YPS: One street custodian punished in Amed 

  YPS Press Center announced that a street custodian named Ramazan Muğla who works in Amed’s Yenişehir district was detained, tried and punished.
• Iranian regime also resorts to trustees 

  The Iranian state has adapted the Turkish state’s practice of appointing trustees to municipalities in Kurdish cities. In Rojhilat, some elected members of city councils were removed from duty and replaced with people loyal to the Itlaat like trustees.
• A German guerrilla in the PKK ranks, mountains of Kurdistan 

  German guerrilla Şiyar called on all the youth around the globe to take now a stance and join the revolution as they cannot find any alternative to the system in which they can no longer live.
• Hasankeyf facing ongoing demolition like Palmyra 

  A huge rock mass has been torn down by dynamite in Hasankeyf Fortress.
• Detonation of Hasankeyf's largest rock to cause great destruction 

  In Batman’s Hasankeyf district the ongoing demolition with dynamites and construction equipment for the construction of the infamous Ilisu Hydroelectric Dam paves the way for huge damage and destruction on the history of the ancient town.
• People of Shengal are rebuilding their city 

  As part of reconstruction efforts, the people of Shengal have started to clean up their city of the wreckages left behind by the gangs and are concreting the streets that were damaged by ISIS.
• TOKİ starts building houses in Hasankeyf amid ongoing destruction 

  With the construction of Ilısu Hydroelectric Dam, the destruction caused to Hasankeyf and its 12 thousand years old memory of life is continuing. Turkish public housing authority has already launched casting concrete for the construction of 710 buildings.
• East Kurdistan youth protest Öcalan’s isolation on Mount Demawend 

  Young people from East Kurdistan (Rojhilat) protested the isolation of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan on Mount Demawend in Tehran.
• Pillaged areas opened for profiteering in Nusaybin 

  With the demolition launched after the state attacks, 6 neighborhoods have been torn to the ground in Nusaybin. The ministry gifted the people’s homes to contractors, and they are planning on building a shopping mall in the demolished area.
• Turkish airstrike starts a fire in Zap 

  The fire started by the Turkish army’s bombardment on Zap continues for two days.
• Shengal's resistance will be crowned with democratic autonomy 

  The basic duty of all Êzidîs, lovers of freedom and those who have been oppressed and tyrannised for years is to stand up for this this democratic autonomy project and implement it.