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• KCDK-E calls for participation in World Peace Day activities 

  The European association KCDK-E has announced that it will be taking part in activities for World Peace Day on 1 September.
• Activists in Athens protest killing of journalists Gulistan Tara and Hêro Bahadîn 

  The Turkish state’s killing of Gulistan Tara and Hêro Bahadîn was protested in Athens.
• Armed attack on the house of Kurdish agricultural workers in Samsun 

  An armed attack was carried out against the house of agricultural workers from Urfa who went to Samsun to work.
• Long March in Switzerland starts tomorrow 

  The Long March in Switzerland will start tomorrow at 10.00 at the Palace de la gare 1296 Coppet. Bus departure points and times have also been finalised.
• Cologne Court: Travel ban against Peace Delegation to Kurdistan unlawful 

  In its judgement on the complaints of two plaintiffs from Hamburg, the Cologne Administrative Court ruled that the travel ban imposed by the Federal Police on participants in a Peace Delegation to Kurdistan was unlawful.
• Nobel Laureate Sauvage: It is time to free Abdullah Öcalan 

  French chemist Jean-Pierre Sauvage, one of the 69 Nobel laureates who sent a letter to international organisations to draw attention to the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan, said, “It is time to free Öcalan.”
• Iraqi army shoots down a Turkish drone in Kirkuk 

  An unmanned aerial vehicle of the invading Turkish state was shot down in Kirkuk on Thursday.
• Peace and democracy conference in Berlin 

  The European Forum for Freedom and Peace will organize a peace and democracy conference.
• 'Entering a new intellectual era', new brochure from the Internationalist Community of Rojava 

  'Entering a new intellectual era', new brochure from the Internationalist Community of Rojava
• Activists call for participation in the Lausanne-Geneva march 

  Members of the Kurdish youth movements TCŞ and TekoJIN called on young people to join the long march from Lausanne to Geneva on 31 August.
• Mike Arnott: Öcalan's freedom is the key for a peaceful solution to the Kurdish question 

  Mike Arnott, chair of the Dundee Trade Union Confederation of Scotland, said that "Abdullah Öcalan's freedom is a key to a peaceful solution."
• Saleh Mamon, a member of the Freedom for Öcalan campaign passes away 

  Saleh Mamon, an active member of the Freedom for Öcalan campaign, a University of London academic and a friend of the Kurds of Kenyan origin, has passed away.
• Call for participation in the ‘Long March’ for Öcalan in Germany 

  The preparatory committee for the long march for the freedom of Abdullah Öcalan and a solution to the Kurdistan question calls for participation in the multi-day demonstration from Bielefeld to Duisburg from 15 to 20 September.
• AANES on Solingen attack: ISIS poses a serious threat to the security of the region and the world 

  In statement about the ISIS attack in Germany, the Autonomous Administration stressed that the source of the support given to ISIS gangs must be dried up.
• Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit: Turkey committed a war crime by massacring journalists 

  DEM Party Group Deputy Chairperson Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit said, “Turkey committed a war crime by massacring free press workers in another country.”
• Panel in Egypt calls for freedom for Abdullah Öcalan 

  A panel organised by Egyptian intellectuals, politicians and jurists called for freedom for Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
• Hashd al-Shaabi forces with hundreds of vehicles dispatched to Germiyan 

  A large Hashd al-Shaabi force, equipped with hundreds of vehicles and heavy weapons, was deployed to Kuleco sub-district.
• DEM Party sees all its bills and motions rejected by AKP-MHP-dominated parliament 

  The DEM Party submitted 136 bills and 625 motions of inquiry in the AKP-MHP-dominated Turkish Parliament in one year. All of these were rejected.
• Bodies of 8 guerrillas who lost their lives in clashes in Beytüşşebap still in Şırnak Hospital 

  Four more bodies belonging to HPG guerrillas who lost their lives in the clashes in Beytüşşebap district were brought to Şırnak State Hospital.
• "Bring the killers of journalists Gulistan Tara and Hêro Bahadîn to justice" 

  The DEM Party Women's Assembly, the Human Rights Association and the trade union DISK Basın-Iş called on the authorities of South Kurdistan to bring the killers of two journalists to justice.
• Many taken into custody in Istanbul and Mardin 

  The Turkish regime’s political genocide operations against the Kurdish people and their elected representatives continue unabated.
• "Long March" for Abdullah Öcalan to take place in September in Germany 

  In September, a "Long March" for the freedom of Abdullah Öcalan will take place in Germany.
• Three construction workers imprisoned in Balıkesir for listening to Kurdish music 

  Three construction workers who were detained while listening to Kurdish music in a park in Altıeylül district were imprisoned on charges of ‘making illegal organisation propaganda’ and ‘resisting the police’.
• 803 more IDPs living in camps in Hewlêr return to Mosul 

  803 more IDPs living in the camps in Hewlêr have returned to Mosul.
• Two ISIS members arrested in Kirkuk 

  One of the arrested ISIS members was involved in the massacre at the Military Academy in Tikrit in 2014.