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• Women from Rojhilat send letter to Leyla Guven 

  Women from Rojhilat wrote a letter to Leyla Guven and said, “We derive strength from your pro-freedom method and efforts, and we believe that we will tear down the walls and the dictatorial system.”
• Italian women in solidarity with Leyla Guven 

  Rete-Jin announced support for the hunger strike campaign aimed at ending the isolation of the Kurdish people’s leader, Abdullah Ocalan.
• Afghan women call on Europe to act for Guven 

  Activist Afghan women sent letters to the Council of Europe and various other institutions for Leyla Guven and Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Ocalan.
• International Women's Initiative for Leyla Güven 

  Urgent call: Save Leyla Güven’s life!
• Feminist Pascale Martin: We support Leyla Guven 

  Les Femmes Solidaires Dordogne Chairwoman Pascale Martin said she admires the Kurdish people’s resistance and said, “We support the hunger strike Leyla Guven is on. We know that she is now in the dangerous days.”
• 45 female prisoners on indefinite hunger strike 

  As DTK Co-chair and HDP MP Leyla Güven is on the 77th day of her hunger strike against the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan, it has been reported that 44 women areon hunger strike in prisons with the same demand.
• Solidarity to Leyla Güven from Swiss women 

  National Swiss Women's Strike Coordination expressed solidarity with Leyla Güven.
• Women met for Leyla Güven in Amed once again 

  Women in Amed met once again to support HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven.
• Women in solidarity with Güven attacked and detained in Amed 

  Women who gathered in front of Amed prison to support HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven attacked by police.
• Zainab Jalalian’s letter to Leyla Guven from Khoy Prison 

  “My dear Leyla; I am Zainab, Zainab Jalalian, behind the prison bars, when I hear the echo of your freedom struggle, I am more determined and resilient to fight for the oppressed.”
• Mothers of Peace in Rojhilat expressed support for Leyla Guven 

  The Mothers of Peace in Rojhilat announced their solidarity with the indefinite hunger strike by Leyla Guven and other hunger strikers in Kurdistan and abroad.
• Solidarity to Leyla Güven from Plaza de Mayo Mothers in Argentina 

  From Argentina a message from Nora Cortiñas, member of the Mothers of Plaza de Mayo-Linea Fundadora.
• Women in Van in solidarity with the hunger strikers  

  HDP Women’s Council in Van sent postcards of solidarity with the hunger strikers. 
• Socialist Women’s Union: Isolation must end at once 

  Socialist Women’s Union Germany saluted Leyla Guven and stated that the isolation must end at once.
• Letter from Leila Khalid to Leyla Güven 

  Palestinian People's Liberation Front’s Leila Khalid said in her letter to Leyla Güven “your patience and your struggle will beat hunger.”
• Peace Mother detained in Ankara sent to prison 

  Yet another Kurdish citizen defending peace has been jailed in Turkey.
• The martyrs of Paris and Silopi commemorated in Toronto 

  The six Kurdish women murdered in Paris and Silopi were commemorated in Toronto, Canada.
• 65-year-old Peace Mother detained in Ankara 

  Peace Mother Sakine Güven was taken into custody in Ankara.
• Kurdish women murdered in Paris and Silopi remembered in Sweden 

  Two commemoration events were held in the cities of Örebro and Västerås.
• Swedish Women's Peace Initiative supports Leyla Güven 

  Pointing out that Güven has reached a critical point in the hunger strike as to her health, the Women's Peace Initiative called on all human rights defenders, especially women, to take action and urge to remove the isolation imposed on Öcalan.
• Lina Berekat: Women lead the democratic nation project 

  Hêva Mehmud said the purpose of the occupying Turkish state was not only to occupy the Syrian territory, but also to occupy other neighbouring countries so to revive the Ottoman times.
• Women from all over the world in solidarity with Leyla Güven 

  “We support Leyla Güven’s demand to end of the isolation on Mr Abdullah Öcalan”.
• Literacy classes for women in Raqqa 

  The Women’s Committee under the Raqqa Civilian Council launched literacy classes for women with 42 participants.
• Women remember Sakine Cansız by her grave in Dersim 

  Women met at the grave of Sakine Cansız, who was murdered in Paris. Leyla Güven was also commended at the memorial.
• Jineology Research Centre opened in Hesekê 

  “Our aim is to improve women's science and organize trainings in all regions”, said Şerin Eli Sileman, an executive of the Hesekê Jineology Center.