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• PKK: Isolation will be broken, AKP-MHP fascism will fall in 2019 

  The PKK has called on all to unite against the bane of humanity AKP-MHP fascism, show solidarity with the Kurdish people’s struggle for existence and freedom and to actively fight against AKP-MHP fascism together in 2019.
• More Kurdish citizens arrested in Iran 

  According to the Kurdish Human Rights Network's investigation, more than 15 Kurdish citizens are currently being interrogated in the Central Intelligence Office and the IRGC Intelligence in the cities of Sanandaj and Urmia.
• Heyva Sor helps flood victims in Qandil 

  The Kurdish aid organization Heyva Sor a Kurdistanê supports the victims of heavy rainfall in Qandil region of southern Kurdistan, northern Iraq.
• Snowfall covers East Kurdistan 

  Snowfall has started in Eastern Kurdistan since yesterday. Roads have been blocked in some mountainous areas due to heavy snowing.
• Encu: We will keep seeking justice for Roboski victims 

  Veli Encu who lost a brother and 33 of his relatives as a result of Turkish airstrikes in Roboski in 2011 said they will continue their quest for justice, “Be it in the bottom of a deep well, we will keep looking for justice,” Encu said.
• Turkish jets bomb villages in South Kurdistan 

  Turkish state continues its genocidal attacks against the Kurdistan territory.
• Memorial in Roboski: Murderers will be held to account 

  Roboski families called on the AKP and said, “Our 36 brothers were killed by soldiers under your government’s orders” and proposed a conference.
• Roboski residents remember relatives they lost 

  Roboski residents are holding memorials on the 7th anniversary of the Roboski Massacre committed by the Turkish state.
• Encu: We have been killed due to our identity and our belonging 

  Ferhat Encu wrote a letter on the anniversary of the Roboski Massacre and said, “We know the perpetrators of this massacre. We weren’t killed just because we were poor, we were killed because of our identity and our belonging.”
• Day 37 in Hewler hunger strike 

  The hunger strike launched by the HDP in Hewler is on day 37. HDP member Nasir Yagiz continues his unlimited nonalternating hunger strike as well.
• Patriotic Youth of East Kurdistan in solidarity with Leyla Guven 

  In East Kurdistan’s Bukan city Patriot Youth called on all components of the society to expand the struggle.
• Kakai people under threat of forced migration in Kirkuk 

  Kakai villages in Kirkuk’s Daquq district have been subjected to many ISIS attacks in the past, and are now facing pressure from Arabs settled in the region.
• HPG reports Turkish airstrike on Avashin 

  Turkish jets bombed Avashin.
• Solidarity hunger strike in Sulaymaniyah on day 12 

  Solidarity action in Sulaymaniyah to demand an end to the isolation regime imposed on Abdullah Öcalan reached day 12.
• New group takes over hunger strike in Maxmur 

  A new group has taken over the hunger strike held in the Maxmur Refugee Camp to break the isolation and achieve Ocalan’s freedom.
• Qandil people: The Turkish state can’t push us out of our village 

  Surede villagers attacked by the Turkish state said they won’t abandon their village.
• Turkish jets bomb civilian residential areas 

  Turkish fighter jets have bombed civilian residential areas. Two civilians were wounded in the attack and the villagers suffered damages to their orchards and groves. There were no guerrillas harmed in the attacks.
• 12 people detained in Van 

  12 people have been detained in house raids in Van’s Ercis and Muradiye districts.
• Three people detained in Lice 

  Several homes were raided in the operation launched in 7 neighborhoods and hamlets following the declaration of a curfew and 3 people were detained.
• Images from the village bombed by Turkish jets in Qandil 

  Turkish airstrikes targeted civilian areas in Saturday night’s bombardment in Qandil. Two people were injured, houses, trees, vineyards and orchards of the local people were damaged as a result of the bombardment.
• ISIS attack kills a policeman in Khanaqin 

  Snipers targeted a joint checkpoint of Germiyan Asayish Forces and Iraqi Federal Police.
• Turkish jets bomb villages in South Kurdistan 

  The Turkish state continues its genocidal attacks against the Kurdish population in various parts of Kurdistan.
• MEP Miranda: The issue of human rights in Kurdistan a big scandal 

  Following her visit to the DTK, Green Group MEP Ana Miranda said “there is a big problem with human rights in Kurdistan.”
• Earthquake victims without homes for another winter in Kermanshah 

  Victims of the earthquake of 7.3 magnitude in Kermanshah in Eastern Kurdistan face another winter without homes.
• Police turns Mother Taybet into “neutralized terrorist” 

  Van Police Directorate referred to Mother Taybet as “the terrorist organization member who was neutralized in December 2015”, thus inadvertently admitting that she was killed by state forces.