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• Fighting among Turkish-backed mercenaries leaves dozens dead 

  Clashes between the Turkish-backed mercenaries in Syria have spread to a wider region, leaving dozens dead.
• 2.262 migrants lost their lives in the Mediterranean in one year 

  According to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, 2.262 migrants lost their lives in attempts to cross into Europe over the Mediterranean Sea in 2018.
• Amed Bar Association: Leyla Guven couldn’t come to our last visit 

  The Amed bar Association pointed out that Leyla Guven’s condition is so critical that she couldn’t come to their last visit, and demanded an immediate end to the isolation.
• Freedom for Ocalan Vigil on week 341 

  Activists from the Freedom for Ocalan Vigil, the longest running Kurdish demonstration to date, said they will raise the struggle for Ocalan’s freedom in the new year on the 341st week of the protest.
• Women visit hunger strikers in Strasbourg 

  For 17 days a hunger strike has been held in Strasbourg against the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan. On Wednesday, women from different cities have visited the hunger strikers.
• Söderhamn Municipality wrote to Turkish government 

  The municipality of Söderhamn protested the occupation of Nusaybin Municipality and the arrest of co-mayor Sara Kaya.
• Yüksekdağ: The isolation of Öcalan is an obstacle to solutions 

  Former co-chair of the Peoples’ Democratic Party, Figen Yüksekdağ, said the isolation imposed on the Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan is a serious obstacle to resolving the main problems in Turkey.
• Doctors: Critical threshold crossed by hunger strikers in prisons 

  A group of medical and physicians’ institutions warned that critical threshold has been crossed by hunger strikers in prison.
• Parties eligible for the election in Turkey announced 

  The Supreme Board of Elections has announced the political parties eligible to participate in the local elections.
• Mosul tribes respond to those asking Turkey to strike Shengal 

  Arab tribal leaders in Mosul responded to Sheikh Muzahim al-Huwaidi, asserting that he represented only himself.
• US and Egypt agree to continue cooperation in Syria, Yemen, Libya 

  The two leaders discussed the latest developments in the Middle East and the joint efforts to restore stability in the region in order to reach political solutions to the current crises, especially in Libya, Syria and Yemen.
• Toil and trouble in Idlib: Turkey’s gangs fight each other 

  As the Turkish state goes back and forth between Washington and Moscow to attack Manbij in order to push Idlib off the agenda, the gangs they guarantee in Idlib are at each others’ throats.
• Day 16 of the hunger strike in Strasbourg 

  The hunger strike continues in the Democratic Kurdish Community Center in Strasbourg.
• US President said withdrawal from Syria will take four months 

  There are still important events to take place in the next few days: one is the trilateral meeting among Russia, Turkey and Iran which should happened before the bilateral meeting between Turkey and the United States.
• Kurds in Lebanon go on hunger strike against isolation 

  Kurds in Lebanon have gone on a hunger strike against the Imrali isolation.
• Kick off for March 31 local elections in Turkey 

  The March 31 local elections campaign period is starting in Turkey.
• Chief Pentagon spokeswoman announces resignation 

  US Department of Defense spokeswoman Dana White announced that she has resigned from the Trump administration.
• HDP MP Abdullah Zeydan goes on hunger strike against isolation 

  HDP MP Abdullah Zeydan, imprisoned in the Edirne Prison, has also started a hunger strike protesting the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan.
• MLKP prisoners to join the hunger strike action for Öcalan 

  MLKP prisoners will start hunger strike on 3-8 January in solidarity with the growing hunger strikes demanding an end to the isolation regime imposed on Abdullah Öcalan.
• Leyla Güven: 2019 will be a year of resistance and freedom 

  "From 2019, our target will be bigger than our expectations. I wish everyone, especially the insurgents a new year, and it would not be a year of hunger, misery, unemployment, child abuse, women's assault, arrests, deaths."
• Strasbourg hunger strikers: We'll step up the resistance in 2019 

  The hunger strike carried out in Strasbourg began the new year with words of resistance.
• Strasbourg hunger strikers call on Europeans to join the struggle 

  In Strasbourg, activists, who have been on hunger strike for 15 days, called on Europeans to share important values ​​with Kurds through a French newspaper.
• KONGRA-GEL calls for increased struggle in 2019 

  "As was proved during the Kobanê resistance, we believe that international solidarity will be very effective in breaking Imralı isolation and in the destruction of fascism."
• DTK: 2019 will be a year of resistance and achievements 

  “The resistance, based in Rojava against the genocidal occupation and elimination policies carried out by regional and international forces has been the light and inspiration for the future of the whole Middle East.”
• Strasbourg strikers: 2019 will be the year for Ocalan’s freedom 

  “We call on our people to raise the resistance and struggle with the motto “Remove the isolation, defeat fascism and liberate Kurdistan. 2019 will be the year for Leader Apo’s freedom and Kurdistan’s liberation,” said the hunger strikers in Strasbourg.