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• Damage assessment team goes from Van to Maraş 

  IMO Van Branch sent a team of 74 people to Maraş, the epicenter of the earthquake.
• Fascists in Cologne attack tent opened in solidarity with earthquake victims 

  Fascists attacked the tent opened in Cologne by AGIF to collect aid for the people affected by the earthquake that hit Kurdistan, Turkey and Syria.
• A total of 400 buildings damaged in Şêxmeqsûd and Eşrefiye 

  Five buildings were destroyed in the earthquake that hit Şêxmeqsûd and Eşrefiye in Aleppo. A total of 400 buildings are damaged in both neighbourhoods. 12 of them need to be demolished immediately.
• Swiss and Kurdish children collect donations for earthquake victims 

  Kurds and their friends continue mobilization for victims of the devastating earthquake in Turkey, North Kurdistan and Syria.
• Three communists from Greece detained in Hatay 

  The police crackdown on revolutionary patriotic organizations has increased in the earthquake-hit areas.
• MP Çepni: Earthquake turned into a disaster because of government policies 

  Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) İzmir Deputy Murat Çepni said that the earthquake has turned into a disaster as a result of the state's policies that ignored scientific facts and disorganized the people.
• Citizens of Kirkuk condemn 15 February International Conspiracy 

  Citizens of Kirkuk condemned the 15 February International Conspiracy and said that the thoughts of Kurdish people's Leader Abdullah Öcalan have spread all over the world and that his physical freedom must now be ensured.
• Xoşnav Ata meets with Amnesty International to discuss Turkish use of chemical weapons 

  Xoşnav Ata, who has been carrying out his protest in front of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) in Den Haag for months, met with Amnesty International officials in Switzerland.
• Volunteers in Batman open their homes to earthquake victims  

  The Crisis Coordination Center set up by the Labor and Democracy Platform on the first day of the earthquake in Batman, continues its work.
• Lausanne Municipality makes a donation to Heyva Sor to help earthquake victims 

  The Municipality of Lausanne said that they will donate 80,000 Francs to Heyva Sor and Medair to be delivered to the earthquake victims.
• Earthquake victims in Adiyaman: We have nothing left 

  While the earthquake survivors in Adiyaman are trying to hold on to life in difficult conditions, they want their basic needs to be met.
• Turkish authorities say 38,044 people lost their lives in earthquake 

  AFAD said that the number of people who lost their lives in the earthquakes increased to 38,044.
• Activists in Drancy protest International Conspiracy 

  The International Conspiracy against Kurdish people's Leader Abdullah Öcalan was protested in the Paris suburb of Drancy.
• HDP co-chair Buldan calls on Erdogan and his entire cabinet to resign 

  As the earthquake relief work of the HDP and other opposition organisations has been systematically obstructed by the state for days, HDP co-chair Pervin Buldan has called on Erdogan and his entire cabinet to resign.
• No electricity, water, stove and toilet in tent camps in Iskenderun 

  Electricity, water, heating and toilet problems are reported in the tent camps established by the Turkish Red Crescent and the state-run AFAD in Iskenderun.
• What's going on in Hatay? 

  The Turkish state which entered Hatay province with its armed forces on the fourth day of the earthquake engage in provocation attempts. The increase in looting and theft in Hatay coincided with the arrival of armed forces in the city.
• Turkish government obstructs and confiscates humanitarian aid for earthquake victims 

  HDP invites the international community to closely follow the government’s destruction of the networks of social solidarity and humanitarian aid when they are needed the most by the victims.
• HDP in South Kurdistan says aid confiscated by Turkish institutions given to gangs 

  HDP Southern Kurdistan representative Nahide Ermiş said that the aid confiscated by Turkish institutions was given to the gangs, not the victims, and added: "Everything donated to the HDP will definitely reach the victims and those in need."
• Turkish authorities seize HDP crisis coordination center in Pazarcık  

  The HDP crisis coordination center for earthquake relief in Pazarcık has been seized by the Turkish authorities and stormed by soldiers. The volunteer relief teams were threatened with arrest.
• Meeting in Milan demands freedom for Abdullah Öcalan 

  The International People's Tribunal, Società INformazione/Diritti Globali, and UIKI organized a meeting to condemn the International Conspiracy.
• Activists in Geneva protest the international conspiracy 

  Kurdish people are protesting the international conspiracy that led to Abdullah Öcalan’s abduction from the Greek embassy in Kenya and handover to Turkey on 15 February 1999.
• State-backed gangs sabotage solidarity work in Elbistan 

  In the earthquake-ravaged district of Elbistan, the coordinated solidarity work of the HDP and the leftist organisation Partizan is being sabotaged by state-backed gangs and observed by the anti-terror police.
• Kurdish activists protest for Abdullah Öcalan in the European Parliament 

  Activists of the Kurdish youth movement have demanded the release of Abdullah Öcalan with a civil disobedience action in the European Parliament in Strasbourg. There has been no sign of life from the Kurdish leader for two years.
• MP Hatimoğulları: Disinformation in earthquake-hit areas intends to displace local people 

  HDP Adana Deputy Tülay Hatimoğulları said that the aim of the disinformation campaign in the earthquake-hit areas was to force local people to migrate.
• Vigil in Strasbourg: “Freedom of Öcalan is the freedom of our peoples’” 

  Zülfü Bingöl from the Freedom Vigil Organizing Committee saluted all activists who have participated in the Freedom Vigil in Strasbourg for the freedom of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan.