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• Racist attack against the HDP Urfa Provincial Organization building 

  A racist attack was carried out against the HDP Urfa Provincial Organization building, despite it being kept under control by police.
• EU plans to expand sanctions against Belarus, says Josep Borrell 

  On the eve of a Council of Foreign Ministers of the European Union, Josep Borrell announced, in an interview with the “JDD”, the will to “give the green light to a widening of the legal framework of our sanctions against the Belarus”.
• HDP Amed holds congress: “They will never be able to defeat us” 

  The Amed provincial association of the HDP held its third congress. Gülistan Atasoy and Zeyyat Ceylan were elected as the new co-chairs of the provincial branch.
• SOHR: Turkish forces killed two men attempting to cross the Iskenderun border 

  The number of Syrian civilians who have been killed by the Turkish Gendarmerie since the beginning of the Syrian Revolution has risen to 491, according to SOHR statistics.
• Police blow up doors and windows during midnight raid in Halfeti, Urfa 

  Apparently on the basis of a false denunciation, a special unit of the Turkish police raided a residential neighborhood in Halfeti at three in the morning and blew open 15 front doors. Nothing was found during the search.
• KNK delegation stands in solidarity with the migrants at Poland border 

  A delegation from the Kurdish National Congress (KNK) has been stopped in Poland eight kilometers from the border with Belarus and is holding talks in Warsaw to support migrants and save lives.
• Kurdish artist Ahmet Kaya's grave in Paris vandalised 

  Kurdish artist Ahmet Kaya's grave in Paris was vandalised.
• Strasbourg rally: “Open the gates of Imrali for a solution” 

  A massive rally held in Strasbourg on Saturday demanded freedom for Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan and urged the international community to speak out against this crime.
• KNK delegation arrives at Belarusian-Polish border 

  The Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) has sent a delegation to the Belarusian-Polish border to advocate for a quick and humane solution in view of the dramatic situation of the migrants there.
• Britain sends troops to the Polish border 

  As the migrant problem worsens, Britain is sending troops to the Polish border. The troops would "offer engineering support," according to the Ministry of Defense.
• ‘Both Erdogan and Lukashenko are using refugees for their political interests’ 

  Discussing the migrant crisis on the Polish-Belarusian border, Dunya Collective member Jan Theurich notes that what is happening here is similar to Erdogan's treatment of refugees.
• Demo for Öcalan in Strasbourg 

  The protest demonstration demands freedom for Öcalan and urges the international community to speak out against isolation.
• Kurdish boy froze to death at Polish-Belarusian border 

  A 14-year-old boy from southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq) has died at the EU's external border. The teenager died of hypothermia, InfoMigrants reports.
• RiseUp4Rojava, Internationalist Commune and Women call for worldwide Day X Mobilisation for Rojava 

  RiseUp4Rojava campaign, the Internationalist Commune in Rojava, and Young Internationalist Women, call for a worldwide Day X Mobilisation against the rising threat of a new large scale Turkish invasion of Rojava.
• Activists in Leipzig protest use of chemical weapons against guerrilla areas in South Kurdistan 

  Activists in Leipzig protested the use of chemical weapons against guerrilla areas in South Kurdistan.
• KNK sends delegation to Belarusian-Polish border 

  The Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) has sent a delegation to the Belarusian-Polish border to advocate for a quick and humane solution in view of the dramatic situation of the migrants there.
• Demo in Naples calls for freedom for Öcalan 

  “The more the peoples’ solidarity grows, the clearer the way to Mr. Öcalan’s freedom will get. Mr. Öcalan cannot be isolated and imprisoned anymore,” said Nursel Aydoğan in the name of the Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan Initiative.
• Chomani: EU, US accomplice to migrant influx from Kurdistan 

  Academic-journalist Kemal Chomani said that the Kurdish migrants who are recently gathered near the Polish border have fled from the oppression and corrupted regime of the Kurdistan regional government.
• HDP calls on Europe to enforce human rights, take in migrants 

  In view of the humanitarian crisis on the Polish side of the EU's external border with Belarus, the HDP leaders call on Europe to enforce human rights and take in migrants on instead of continuing to rely on military isolation.
• ‘Freedom Ship’ arrives in Naples: "The time has come for freedom for Öcalan" 

  While demanding the freedom of Öcalan, the action also aims at bringing the Kurdish leader’s democratic confederalism project to wider audiences and to increase the struggle against the attacks of the Turkish state.
• KCDK-E calls on activists to attend march demanding freedom for Öcalan in Strasbourg on Saturday 

  The KCDK-E called on activists to attend the march to be held in Strasbourg tomorrow to demand freedom for Öcalan and urge the international community to speak out against isolation.
• "Lift the ban against the PKK" initiative releases video ahead of 27 November march in Berlin 

  The initiative "Lift the ban against the PKK" has published a video for the demonstration that will be held on 27 November in Berlin. The clip tells the history of the repression against the Kurdish movement in Turkey and in Germany.
• FED-MED calls on people to attend march to be held in Düsseldorf on 13 November  

  FED-MED called on people to attend the march to be held in Düsseldorf on 13 November to protest the Turkish state's use of chemical weapons and demand the international community to apply sanctions on Ankara.
• KOMAW pays tribute to Gulo family 

  KOMAW said that the Turkish state will not achieve any results by targeting patriotic Kurdish families, and added that they will be loyal and worthy of these martyrs who have worked since the beginning of the freedom struggle.
• Freedom ship arrives in Naples today 

  Dozens of activists departed from Athens on the “Freedom ship”, demanding to end the isolation of Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan as well as his freedom and will be met today in Naples.