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• Persistent operations by YPG/YPJ continue in Hesekê 

  YPG Press Office has reported in a written statement that persistent military operations conducted by combined forces of theYPG and the YPJ continue to confront the ISIS gangs attempting occupation efforts near the city of Hasakah, Rojava.
• KCK: Let's enhance the struggle with the spirit of July 14 

  KCK Executive Council Co-Presidency called on peoples to resist like those who took part in the July 14 Resistance in order to create a democratic union against ISIS fascism, which has been haunting the people of the region.
• Mass farewell to YPG/YPJ fighters in Cizre 

  Thousands bid farewell to YPG fighters Hüseyin Gökalp, Mahsum Seçen and YPJ fighter Fatma Dalmış in a mass funeral in Cizre district of Şırnak today afternoon.
• Karayılan: July 14 is the spirit of victory 

  Revolutionaries who lost their lives during the July 14 Hunger Strike Resistance were commemorated in the ceremony held in Medya Defense Zones.
• Amnesty International: Saman Naseem is alive 

  Saman Naseem, 21, whose fate and whereabouts had been unknown since he was due to be executed in February was able to call his relatives from prison over the weekend.
• Bodies of 11 YPG/YPJ and HPG fighters sent to their hometowns 

  Bodies of 11 YPG/YPJ fighters who lost their lives in the fight against ISIS in Rojava and of HPG fighter Sadi Özek who was martyred in Shengal in 2014 have been taken from Silopi and sent to their hometowns for funeral.
• 'It is the spirit of July 14 resisting in Rojava and Shengal today' 

  KJK Coordination member Esma Semsur said that July 14 was a contemporary resistance defending its will in political arenas and gaining to success.
• They are the children of Kurdistan 

  Kobanê Institution of Martyrs' Families executive İbrahim Muslim told that they waited for support for over 600 children that lost their parents at the 25 June massacre committed by ISIS gangs against civilians.
• ‘July 14: Victory of bare courage and will’ 

  Leading PKK cadres M. Hayri Durmuş, Kemal Pir, Ali Çiçek and Akif Yılmaz had carried out the historic July 14 hunger strike and defeated the fascist military interveners’ plans to intimidate Kurdish people and the Kurdish Freedom Movement.
• YPG announces death of German fighter Kevin Jochim 

  YPG Press Office announced the death of German fighter Kevin Jochim (Dilsoz Bahar) in a clash in Silûk town of Girê Spî, Rojava (West) Kurdistan, on 6 July, 2015.
• Bombardment, deployment and aerial activity by the Turkish army 

  People’s Defence Forces (HPG) Press office has reported in a written statement that the bombardment, military deployment and reconnaissance of the Turkish army continue increasingly.
• 14 detained for attempting to hinder military operation in Ağrı 

  14 people were detained as a result of an intervention against villagers who made an effort to hinder the Turkish soldiers participating a military operation in Ağrı.
• KDP allows the passage of bodies after people’s protest 

  KDP allowed the passage of 11 YPG/YPJ fighters’ bodies after people’s protest. The bodies were kept at the border for 2 hours.
• Military operations by YPG/YPJ target ISIS-occupied southern Hesekê 

  YPG Press Office said in a written statement that attacks by the ISIS gangs continue to target the city of Hesekê, Rojava, Syria.
• KDP prevents the funeral of YPG/YPJ fighters 

  KDP prevented the passage of 11 YPG/YPJ martyrs’ bodies into South Kurdistan through Sêmalka Border Gate. Civilians protested the KDP stance.
• HDP MP: Soldiers rained bullets on villagers during military deployment 

  HDP Ardahan deputy Taşkın Aktaş strongly reacted against the attribution of Turkish soldiers’ attack on a civil minibus of local people in Gundik (Koyunlu) village of Ardahan’s Göle district to the PKK.
• Who were the armed civilians in the attack site? 

  Harika Morkoç, the daughter of Kamber Morkoç who was killed as he was going to a picnic near the Gundik (Koyunlu) village of Göle, was with her father as he was shot and emphasized the state role in the attack.
• Clash between HPG and Turkish army in Ardahan 

  People's Defense Central Headquarters Command said that yesterday's armed attack by Turkish soldiers against civilians had been planned and organized by the Turkish military.
• Man wounded in armed attack by soldiers taken under surgery 

  Sabri Morkoç who was wounded in yesterday's armed attack by Turkish soldiers, which targeted a civil minibus travelling in Gundik (Koyunlu) village in Göle district of Ardahan, has been taken under surgery.
• HPG reports remarkable increase in Turkish military activity 

  HPG Press Office has drawn attention to the remarkable increase in the operational tendency of the Turkish army against the guerrilla areas, as well as military activities and construction of new military posts.
• YPG/YPJ continue to operate against ISIS near Kobanê 

  Over the past 24 hours in the south and southwest of Kobanê, numerous attacks were carried out by the ISIS gangs, reported YPG Press Office in a written statement on its website.
• Statements of Arabs and Turkmens from Girê Spî reversed in Istanbul 

  The Syrian National Coalition has reversed the statements of the committee it formed to examine in Girê Spî (Tal Abyad), which denied YPG pressures on local Arabs and Turkmens.
• Armed attack by soldiers leaves 1 dead, 2 wounded – UPDATE 

  Soldiers of the Turkish army taking part in a military operation raided bullets on a civil minibus carrying local people in Gundik (Koyunlu) village in Göle district of Ardahan province.
• Isolation of Öcalan protested in Kurdish cities 

  Massive protests have taken place in cities of North Kurdistan against the isolation of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan who has been jailed in Imralı Island Prison since 1999.
• 1 killed, 2 wounded as soldiers raid bullet on civil minibus 

  Soldiers of the Turkish army taking part in a military operation raided bullets on a civil minibus carrying local people in Gundik (Koyunlu) village in Göle district of Ardahan province.