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• YPG launch an operation on ISIS-held villages in Kobanê 

  YPG/YPJ forces have started an operation on some villages controlled by the ISIS gangs in memories of Martyr Agiri and Martyr Herdem.
• HPG: Turkish army instigating clashes 

  People's Defense Forces Press Centre HPG-BIM reported in a written statement that the Turkish army has enhanced military activities at the Şırnak border to Haftanin to the extend of instigating new clashes.
• KCK condemns the Anfal genocide 

  KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) Executive Council Co-Presidency has released a statement vehemently condemning the Anfal genocide perpetrated by the colonial Iraqi state in South Kurdistan 27 years ago.
• TEVDA executive: KDP must stop attacks on Yazidi organisations 

  The KDP’s policies towards the Yazidis are attracting mounting criticism. TEVDA executive Munzur Dersim called on the KDP government and institutions affiliated to it to abandon these policies.
• YBŞ and YPJ Sinjar celebrate Çarşema Sor 

  YBŞ and YPJ Sinjar General Commands released a statement wishing a happy Çarşema Sor to all the Yazidi people, saying this year’s festival marks the liberation of Sinjar and the Yazidi people.
• First mass grave from Dersim massacre opened 

  Excavations have begun in Dersim at a site where it is said 24 people, including women and children, were murdered during the massacres of 1938.
• HPG: Turkish army increasing operations to instigate clashes 

  People's Defense Forces Press Centre (HPG-BİM) reported in a written statement that the Turkish army continued its planned and deliberate operations to instigate clashes.
• YPG: Five more villages southeast Kobanê liberated 

  Defense Units have ended the ISIS occupation in Bocak and Xirab Hişk -both of which involve two villages- and Derfilît village, the strategic Çelebi cement plant and 2 quarry areas.
• Kobanê victory splits ISIS 

  Following the defeat suffered by the ISIS gangs in Kobanê, the organisation feared throughout the Middle East has now split into several parts.
• Operation and clash in Şemdinli 

  It is reported that clash broke out between HPG (People's Defense Forces) guerrillas and Turkish soldiers taking part in an operation of the army in the rural areas of Hakkari's Şemdinli district.
• HSM: Every attack will be responded 

  HSMKK stressed that guerrilla forces abode by the ceasefire since 21 March 2013, while the AKP state and the Turkish army have on the contrary treated the process on the basis of various plans, tactics and games.
• HPG: Turkish army carried out a pinpoint raid at Tendürek 

  HPG stated that the operation of the Turkish army at Tendürek was a preplanned pinpoint raid, and that it was the Turkish soldiers that opened the first fire.
• DBP youth organise protest march against Ilısu dam 

  The Party of Democratic Regions (DBP) Youth Assembly is organising a big march on 13 April in Hasankeyf in protest at the construction of the Ilısu dam.
• KCK: AKP will burn itself if keeps playing with fire 

  KCK stated that in order to implement the presidential system in Turkey, the AKP would do anything, including all kinds of provocation, to prevent further loss of power and disintegration among themselves.
• YPG: Goktepe and Goçekmen villages liberated 

  Clashes between ISIS gangs and YPG/YPJ (People's/Women's Defense Units) are continuing in Kobanê and Cizîrê cantons of Rojava, West Kurdistan.
• Turkish military activity continues in North Kurdistan 

  People's Defense Forces Press Centre HPG-BIM reported in a written statement that the Turkish army continued its aerial and land activities in North Kurdistan territory.
• Clash reported between HPG and Turkish army in Ağrı 

  Clash has been reported between HPG (People's Defense Forces) guerrillas and Turkish soldiers in a rural area in Ağrı province of North Kurdistan today.
• 27 ISIS corpses seized in Til Temir 

  ISIS gangs routed by YPG forces in villages around Til Temir abandoned dozens of dead bodies as they fled. A total of 27 corpses were found by the YPG forces.
• YPG: 36 gang members killed in Kobanê and Cizîrê 

  YPG Press Centre said that heavy clashes on the western boundaries of the Cizîrê Canton continued since the ISIS attacks on 23 February.
• Howitzer and mortar attack by Turkish army in Şırnak 

  Turkish army has carried out howitzer and mortar attacks on some areas in Şırnak province of North Kurdistan.
• Battlefield extending in Rojava: 152 gang members killed in 2 days 

  152 ISIS gang members have been killed in the ongoing clashes between the YPG/YPJ forces and the ISIS in the villages to the south and west of Til Temir.
• Warning action by HPG in response to increasing military activity 

  People's Defense Forces Press and Communication Centre (HPG-BIM) has released a statement on the increasingly ongoing activities of the Turkish army in North Kurdistan.
• Father and son fighting together in YBŞ in Sinjar 

  Members of Yazidi families in Sinjar are fighting shoulder to shoulder to protect their land and belief against ISIS attacks going on since early August 2014.
• Cavalli: YPG will ensure liberation of peoples in Middle East 

  Prof. DR. Franco Cavalli, the head of the UICC, a Switzerland-based International organisation committed to fighting cancer worldwide, said the YPG and YPJ were the only forces fighting obscurantism in the Middle East.
• YPG releases balance sheet of war in Cizîrê Canton 

  YPG (People's Defense Units) Press Centre has released the balance sheet of war in Cizîrê Canton of West Kurdistan, Rojava, for the month of March.