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• Political prisoner who ended her life buried in Mardin 

  Political prisoner Nurcan Bakır has been buried at her birthplace in the Northern Kurdish province of Mardin. After 28 years in jail, she took her own life yesterday in a Turkish prison in protest against the prison conditions.
• Women celebrate 15th anniversary of Kongreya Star  

  This year marks the 15th anniversary of Kongreya Star. Celebrations are planned with a variety of events in different cities.
• Women's Coordination holds its annual meeting in Raqqa 

  The participants stressed that despite all difficulties, women were leading the transformation in civil and military institutions.
• Two sisters run a carpentry workshop in Raqqa 

  In Raqqa two sisters have broken the social norm and opened a carpentry workshop. They now work with eight employees. The business is doing well.
• “We will defend our land and defeat fascism and occupation” 

  Kongra Star celebrated the anniversary of the organisation by saluting all revolutionary women and those struggling, seeking freedom, resisting and defending.
• Ill prisoner jailed for 28 years ends her life 

  Ill prisoner Nurcan Bakır, who was transferred to another prison after her participation in the hunger strike against the isolation of Öcalan, has ended her life.
• Police take woman into custody in Istanbul 

  A woman has been taken into custody in Istanbul, as a result of an operation which led to the arrest of 5 other women in Ankara.
• Police take 5 women into custody in Ankara 

  The Turkish regime's political genocide operations continue unabated.
• Women's football club in Amude moves up to Syrian league 

  The 2020/21 season of the Syrian women's football league is expected to start this Thursday.
• North East Syrian Women's Council visits YPJ 

  A delegation of the Women's Council of North and East Syria visited the Women's Defense Units YPJ in Qamishlo. In addition to a discussion on women's organisation, an exchange of views on challenges, perspectives and potential took place.
• Women in Borlänge pay tribute to Sakine, Fidan and Leyla 

  A commemoration was organized in Borlänge, Sweden, for PKK founder Sakine Cansız, KNK Paris Representative Fidan Doğan and Youth Movement member Leyla Şaylemez, who were murdered in Paris on 9 January 2013.
• Twitterstorm today for Sebahat Tuncel and Gültan Kışanak 

  The Free Women's Movement (TJA) is launching a solidarity campaign on social networks for Kurdish women politicians Sebahat Tuncel and Gültan Kışanak, who are facing retrial.
• Sakine, Fidan and Leyla remembered in Melbourne 

  The three Kurdish revolutionaries have been commemorated in Melbourne, Australia.
• All set for opening of Şifajin Health Center in Jinwar 

  The women are building an alternative to patriarchal society, rediscovering and reestablishing collectively our freedom in an ecological way, health becomes an inescapable topic.
• Vienna pays tribute to Sakine, Fidan and Leyla 

  Sakine Cansız, one of the founders of the PKK who was murdered on 9 January 2013 in Paris, together with Fidan Doğan, KNK Paris Representative and Leyla Şaylemez, a member of the Youth Movement, were commemorated with a march in Vienna.
• Thousands in Bologna for Sakine, Fidan and Leyla 

  "Women, life, freedom, together with the Rojava revolution," was the slogan of the demonstration.
• Women murdered in Paris and Silopi commemorated in Sydney 

  Sydney paid tribute to the Kurdish women revolutionaries murdered in Paris and Silopi.
• Demo in Stockholm demands justice for murdered Kurdish women 

  “The killing of Sakine, Fidan and Leyla is a part of dictator Erdoğan’s woman-enemy policy. Erdoğan is waging a war against women,” said the speakers.
• Paris rally: Sozdar Avesta calls on women to defend themselves 

  "Women need to organize and carry out self-defense. We must smash the patriarchal system," said Sozdar Avesta of the KCK in a video message at the massive rally in Paris.
• Women's movement in Rojava grows stronger despite occupation 

  Hîva Erebo from the Kurdish women's umbrella organisation Kongreya Star comments in an ANF interview on the development of women's organisation in North and East Syria and points out that the women's movement has become stronger despite invasion.
• Women murdered by the Turkish state remembered in Stockholm 

  Six Kurdish women massacred in Paris and Silopi by the Turkish state were commemorated with an event in Stockholm.
• Commemoration for Sakine, Fidan and Leyla in Gävle 

  A commemoration was held in the Swedish city of Gävle for the three Kurdish revolutionary women murdered in Paris on 9 January 2013.
• Women from Derik pay tribute to Sakine, Fidan and Leyla 

  The three Kurdish revolutionaries have been commemorated in Derik, northern Syria.
• Justice for Sakine, Fidan and Leyla action in Berlin 

  An action was held in Berlin to pay tribute to Sakine, Fidan and Leyla.
• Memorial for Sakine, Fidan and Leyla in Yerevan 

  A memorial was held in Yerevan to commemorate Sakine Cansız, FIdan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez, who mere murdered in Paris on 9 January 2013.