KURDISTAN

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• New governor can’t be elected in Kirkuk 

  The City Council is unable to convene to elect a new governor in the place of the Kirkuk Governor Najmattin Karim who was removed from office.
• YBŞ-YJŞ fighters: We have foiled the invasion plan 

  YBŞ and YJŞ fighters say invasion and treason will no longer achieve results in Shengal and the Êzidî people have taken the necessary lessons from the past.
• Youth of Kurdistan starts “Rise Up!” campaign 

  Kurdish youth organizations Komalen Ciwan and Komalen Jinen Ciwan started “Rise Up!” campaign and called on all youth to take to the streets and resist against oppression.
• Landmine explodes on Sardasht border: One kolbar wounded 

  A kolbar (load carriers on the border for a fee) has been wounded in a landmine explosion on the border between Rojhilat (Eastern Kurdistan) and Bashûr (Southern Kurdistan).
• Pre-attack selfie in Hewlêr 

  One of the attackers who shot up the Kurdistan Regional Parliament, threatened to kill the MPs and battered journalists last night has posted a selfie of himself with Barzani’s advisor Hemîn Hewrami on social media.
• Turkish soldiers besiege villages in Mardin 

  Turkish troops have besieged the villages in Mardin’s Ömeryan region amid military dispatching.
• Gorran and PUK offices in Zakho set on fire 

  Tensions that erupted in Hewler after yesterday’s parliamentary session during which the KRG presidency was abolished, spread to Zakho where YNK and Gorran offices were burned down.
• Kurdish cameraman murdered in Kirkuk 

  An employee of Kurdistan TV was murdered in Kirkuk’s Dakuk district last night.
• Khabur border crossing handed over to the Iraqi government 

  Baghdad and Hewlêr have reportedly agreed on the hand-over of the Khabur border crossing to Iraqi central government.
• Turkish police desecrate graves of HPG and YPS members in Amed 

  Police officers desecrated the graves of some HPG and YPS members in Yeniköy Cemetery in central Amed.
• KDP’s armed men take MPs hostage inside the parliament building 

  KDP asayish members and several unidentified armed men got into the parliament, closed down the doors and took the parliamentarians inside hostage.
• Heavy gunfire inside Kurdistan parliament 

  Heavy gunfire has been heard inside the Kurdish parliament in Arbil after Barzani supporters stormed the building.
• Barzani steps down as the president of Kurdistan region 

  Kurdistan Democratic Party leader Masoud Barzani announced that he will step down as the president of Kurdistan region.
• Twenty-Two Turkish soldiers killed in North Kurdistan 

  At least twenty-two Turkish soldiers were killed and four were wounded in clashes between Kurdish guerrillas and Turkish army in Northern Kurdistan, HPG said.
• Military operation and clash in Lice countryside 

  Clash erupted between Kurdish guerrillas and Turkish soldiers in the countryside of Lice, Northern Kurdistan.
• Construction halted for freak buildings in Sur 

  The construction of concrete buildings that pro-AKP KİPTAŞ is building over the ruins of the six demolished neighborhoods in Amed’s Sur district has been halted due to widespread protest.
• Military operation and bombardment in Amed countryside 

  The Turkish army has launched an operation in the countryside of Amed city in Northern Kurdistan.
• Soldiers burn house down, Governor says “individual accident” 

  Soldiers entered the Mollatopuz village and burned down villager Ismail Candemir’s house following the “security” meeting the Interior Minister Suleyman Soylu held in Van.
• People of Makhmur accommodated in Rûstem Cûdî Camp 

  Residents of Makhmur town, who were displaced in the wake of clashes between the Iraqi army and peshmerga forces, are moving to the Makhmur Camp.
• Footage of action in which a Turkish Lt. Col. was killed 

  Gerîla TV has released footage from an action in which Turkish military officials were targeted in Hakkari countryside.
• Clashes between the Iraqi army and peshmergas near Makhmur 

  Clashes erupted between the Iraqi army, affiliated forces in Southern Kurdistan’s Makhmur district and peshmerga forces stationed on Hewlêr road.
• KDP and PUK agree to abolish presidency system 

  Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) and Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) agreed to abolish the regional presidency system in Southern Kurdistan.
• Iraq refuses Arbil’s proposal to freeze referendum results 

  Iraqi government refused Kurdish government’s proposal to freeze the referendum results before starting negotiations with Baghdad.
• Hashd al-Shaabi attacks peshmerga forces in Zumar 

  Hashd al-Shaabi launched an operation to capture Fays Khabur village, north of oil-rich Zumar province on Thursday.
• Prisoners in Van face "Öcalan" censorship  

  It came out that Öcalan-related and anti-Erdoğan news articles are cut out of the newspapers that are handed out to prisoners in Van T Type Prison.