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• Clashes in Dersim following an attack by guerrillas on police station 

  Guerrillas have launched an attack on “Martyr Nahit Bulut” police station in Dersim city center Friday noon.
• HPG: 43 soldiers and 6 police killed in actions by guerrillas 

  Guerrillas affiliated to HPG (People's Defense Forces) and YJA Star (Free Women's Troops) continue their actions in response to the ongoing attacks and operations by Turkish military forces.
• More detained and remanded in custody 

  Arrests and detentions continue in the scope of the political genocide operations aiming an elimination of the Kurdish population mainly in Kurdish cities.
• Turkish army continues shelling guerrilla areas 

  HPG reported that the bombardments launched by Turkish troops against guerrilla areas, as well as the reconnaissance flights by Turkish unmanned aerial vehicles continued.
• YPG Conference on Kobanê Resistance ended 

  Military forces affiliated to YPG Kobanê Command have organized a conference on the resistance in Kobanê region, held under the slogan “Let’s re-organise on the basis of Kobanê resistance and lead the building of democratic Syria”.
• Livorno: the 5th sister city of Kobanê in Italy 

  Livorno City Council has approved with the majority of the votes the friendship and fellowship project with Kobanê, Qamişlo and Suruç.
• Detentions and arrests continue ceaselessly 

  Dozens are detained and arrested on daily basis as part of the political genocide operations against the Kurdish population in Northern Kurdistan.
• Co-mayor and DBP co-chair for Nusaybin sent to Sincan prison 

  Co-mayor of Mardin's Nusaybin district municipality, Sara Kaya, and DBP Nusaybin district co-chair Zinnet Alğan who were remanded in custody yesterday, have been exiled to Sincan Women's Prison in Ankara today.
• HPG reports ongoing actions by guerrillas 

  Many Turkish soldiers have been killed in retaliation actions conducted by HPG (People's Defense Forces) guerrillas in Northern Kurdistan in response to the ongoing attacks by Turkish army.
• Attacks by Turkish army against guerrilla areas continue 

  People’s Defense Forces (HPG) Press Office issued a statement regarding the ongoing bombardments and aerial activities carried out by the Turkish army on guerrilla-held areas.
• The land of murdered children on World Peace Day 

  A look at the number of children murdered during the last 13 years of AKP rule reveals that AKP and Erdoğan brought their ruling into existence over the death of children.
• Three foreign journalists and two Kurdish politicians remanded in custody 

  Three foreign journalists recently detain in Amed, as well as Nusaybin co-mayor Sara Kaya and DBP Nusaybin district co-chair Zinnet Alğan have been remanded in custody.
• Police murder a youth in Yüksekova 

  Special operation police teams attacked the neighborhoods of Esentepe and Esenyurt in Yüksekova district of Hakkari last night.
• HPG: 19 soldiers and 2 police killed in actions by guerrillas 

  While attacks by Turkish army against guerrilla areas continue, so do the retaliation action by guerrillas, in which 19 soldiers and 2 police were killed.
• Report on Cizre: Three civilians were murdered by snipers 

  Head of Amed Bar Association, Tahir Elçi, has released the report prepared by a bar delegation assigned to investigate the clashes that took place in Cizre district of Şırnak on August 27.
• Jailed co-mayors of Hakkari and Edremit sent to an Ankara prison 

  Co-mayors of Hakkari and Van's Edremit district municipality, who were detained and remanded in custody last week, have been exiled from Van M Type Prison where they have been held since.
• Kurds in Germany to march tomorrow against isolation and massacres 

  The Kurdish people living in Europe will stage a long march tomorrow to condemn the ongoing isolation of Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan and massacre of civilians.
• Encü on Silopi: They want to intimidate the people by killing civilians 

  HDP Şırnak deputy Ferhat Encü said people in Silopi faced the possibility of being shot even when went go out to buy bread as snipers have been positioned on the roofs of governor's office, police station and military buildings.
• People of Yüksekova: We will not leave our lands 

  Local people dealing with animal husbandry in uplands to earn a living voiced determination to not leave their lands despite the recently enhanced bombardments by Turkish jets.
• Mother and daughter shot by snipers in Silopi 

  While not a single day passes without murders in the Kurdish region of Turkey, 55-year-old civilian Fatma Ay and her 14-year-old daughter Berfin Ökten were targeted by snipers as they slept on the roofs of their house in Silopi last night.
• 16 police killed in action by guerrillas in Nazımiye 

  In an action in Nazımiye district of Dersim, guerrillas hit the Police Headquarters, District Governor's Office, Government Office, Police Lodges, District Commando Brigade and one base station, which left 16 police dead and three others wounded.
• Blast in Silvan leaves one child dead 

  A blast has occurred on Büyükçeşme Avenue in Bağlar neighborhood of Amed's Silvan district.
• DBP Amed branch co-chair remanded in custody 

  DBP (Party of Democratic Regions) Amed branch co-chair Hafize İpek has been remanded in custody on charges of “knowingly and willfully aiding an illegal organisation despite not being involved in its hierarchical structure'”.
• Three youths killed by police in Silopi 

  Three youths were first surrounded and then shot dead by police in a house in Kobanê neighborhood of Şırnak's Silopi district.
• HPG: Actions by guerrillas continue 

  HPG (Peoples' Defense Forces) Press Office reported that actions by guerrillas in Northern Kurdistan in response to the ongoing attacks by Turkish forces continue.