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• Tightening anti-terror laws, Sweden passes constitutional amendment 

  The Swedish parliament passed a constitutional amendment that allows for a tightening of anti-terror laws. The Left Party sees this as a genuflection to the Turkish president and, like the Greens, voted against it.
• Beritan and Campbell: Kurds cannot be criminalized 

  British journalist Mark Campbell and Kurdish woman activist Beritan Silemani appeared in a London court for carrying PKK flags. Campbell and Beritan stressed that the Kurdish people and their values cannot be criminalized.
• Houses of Alevis marked with crosses in Mersin 

  In the southern Turkish province of Mersin, houses belonging to Alevis have been marked with crosses. This causes fears among Alevis because it is reminiscent of preparations for earlier pogroms against the pre-Islamic religious community.
• At least 342 people killed by security forces in protests in Iran 

  At least 342 people, including 43 children and 26 women, have been killed by security forces in the ongoing protests in Iran and Rojhilat.
• 17 people remanded in custody over the bomb attack in Istanbul 

  17 people were remanded in custody in connection with Sunday's bomb attack in Istanbul Taksim.
• Kurds living in Dortmund protest Turkish state's chemical weapons attacks 

  Kurds living in Dortmund protested the Turkish state's chemical weapons attacks with a rally.
• First hearing in London against two activists who carried PKK flag at demonstration 

  Journalist and activist Mark Campbell and Beritan, a Kurdish woman from Liverpool, are being charged under the Terrorism Act 2000.
• Three prisoners in Konya jail go on an indefinite and non-alternating hunger strike  

  Three prisoners in Ereğli jail went on an indefinite and non-alternating hunger strike to protest against the rights violations and isolation.
• Hashd Al-Shaabi official: We are ready to remove Turkish troops from Iraqi territory 

  An official from Hashd Al-Shaabi said that they were ready to remove the Turkish state, which continues its invasion attacks against the Kurdistan Region, from Iraqi territory.
• Iraqi minister to be summoned to parliament over Turkey's attacks 

  A parliamentarian from the State of Law Coalition, Durxam Maliki, announced that Foreign Minister Fuad Hussein would be summoned to the parliament over the increasingly ongoing Turkish attacks.
• Civil disobedience outside the CoE headquarters denounces Turkish chemical attacks 

  Civil disobedience action outside the Council of Europe headquarters in Strasbourg protests against the international silence and inaction against Turkey’s crimes in Kurdistan.
• Protest against Iranian delegation to take place in Vienna 

  An Iranian delegation is in Vienna from today to negotiate the nuclear dispute. Left organizations announce protests.
• Kurdish Solidarity Collective launches website to step up campaign to stop Turkey’s aggression 

  International politicians, scholars and artists came together to condemn Turkey’s aggression against Kurds and to call on NATO to revoke its ‘dirty deal’ with the Turkish president.
• Peace in Kurdistan Campaign: Support Mark and Beritan! 

  Peace in Kurdistan stands in solidarity with the Kurdish people and rights activists charged under the Terrorism Act 2000 for exercising the right of peaceful protest.
• Activists to hold actions across Cyprus to expose war crimes committed by Turkish state 

  The first of the series of actions across Cyprus to expose the war crimes committed by the Turkish state against the Kurdish people was launched with the tent action opened in Limassol.
• Young people in Marseille demand freedom for Öcalan 

  Young people in Marseille demanded freedom for Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan, and saluted the guerrilla resistance.
• Video campaign against Turkish chemical attacks continues in Sweden 

  The campaign 'Make a video and make your voice heard' against the chemical attacks by the Turkish state continues in Sweden.
• Iraqi parliament establishes special commission to investigate Turkish use of chemical weapons 

  A special commission was established in the Iraqi parliament to investigate the Turkish state's use of chemical weapons in South Kurdistan.
• Kurds call for participation in action to mark 100th anniversary of Treaty of Lausanne on Monday 

  A call for participation in the action to be held in Lausanne on 21 November, on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the Treaty of Lausanne, was made in the protest that has been going on for nearly two years in front of the UN Office in Geneva.
• Uprising in Iran leaves two months behind 

  Three more demonstrators have been sentenced to death as protests after Mahsa Amini’s death in Iran and East Kurdistan have entered the third month.
• YPS Martyr Devran Zilan Retaliation Team claims responsibility for action in Istanbul 

  YPS Martyr Devran Zilan Retaliation Team reported that they burned 9 luxury vehicles in an apartment parking lot belonging to the AKP's district president and his brother in Istanbul.
• Stand in Thessaloniki exposes Turkish use of chemical weapons against Medya Defense Areas 

  The genocidal war waged by the AKP-MHP army using chemical weapons in the Medya Defense Areas in Thessaloniki was exposed with a stand, and signatures were gathered against the PKK ban.
• KONGRA-GEL: Taksim bombing is a vicious plan of AKP-MHP fascism 

  The KONGRA-GEL Co-Presidency Council condemned the attack that shook the heart of Istanbul on November 13 and said that it was “a vicious plan of the AKP and MHP fascism”.
• Former HDP MP sentenced to five months in prison 

  Former HDP MP Çağlar Demirel was sentenced to five months in prison in Turkey for "disparaging the Turkish nation".
• KCK: Istanbul attack shows that AKP-MHP are pursuing new malicious plans 

  “Our movement has nothing to do with this attack. The attempt to blame our movement shows that the AKP-MHP are pursuing new malicious plans. We call on everyone to be sensitive, careful, vigilant and make all necessary efforts to understand the truth.”