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NEWS BRIEFING August 2019

REMEMBERING SHENGAL 5 YEARS ON.

1.Yazidi women ‘ready to fight’ to avoid repeat of massacre
2.Women of Shengal: We have organized to avoid further massacres
3. YPJ: We reiterate our pledge to avenge Yazidi women
4.TJK-E calls on women to join demos for Shengal on 3 August
5. PKK’s intervention in Shengal
6. Following genocide, Shengal reinvented itself anew
7. Events all over the world to remember Shengal
8. TJA Statement to Remember the Yezidi Genocide of 3 August 2014
9. The 5th Anniversary of Shengal Massacre Infographic
10. My people were massacred five years ago. The genocide continues.

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NEWS

1. Northern and Eastern Syrian women’s assembly to be founded
2. HDP’s Buldan: Mr. Öcalan is the key to peace
3. US: Kurds should be represented in political talks on Syria
4. Turkish novelist details online abuse as authorities crackdown on ‘obscenity’
5. US official holds counterterror talks with Syria Kurds
6. Turkey continues to arrest Dutch citizens on suspicion of PKK support
7. Sinn Fein demand release of Ocalan and return to peace talks
8. Rail workers vote overwhelmingly to support jailed journalists in Turkey
9. British Unions continue to work for freedom for Öcalan
10. Leyla Güven discharged from hospital: I will return stronger
11. KNK celebrated its 20th anniversary
12. “Kurdish Struggle” panel discussion at British Parliament

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WOMEN’S ALLIANCE

FOR KURDISTAN, IRAQ AND SYRIA

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1. Kurdish women prepare to protect their gains in Syria
2. Painting with honey, fruits and blood
3. Today a NATO country sentenced this woman to nearly two years in jail for journalism
4. Turkey: Riot police fire tear gas at banned women’s day rally
5. Women in Berlin: Be the voice of hunger strikers’ mothers!
6. Women wearing white head scarves rallied in Cologne
7. Kurdish politicians urge protesters to spare own lives in Turkey
8. Faster Aydın: Let’s spread the resistance everywhere!
9. Investigation into Turkish MIT’s role in Paris killings – UPDATED
10. After surviving ISIS and a civil war, these Syrian women built a female-only village
11. Kurdish women scarred by state violence in Turkey’s southeast – report
    12. Kurdish women’s experience of state violence in Turkey
12. Yazidi spiritual council would welcome children of ISIS rape victims, revokes earlier statement

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13. Kurdish women prepare to protect their gains in Syria

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NEWS

1. Lawyers for Abdullah Öcalan publicly read his letter, following their historic meeting with the Kurdish leader.
2. Deir ez-Zor people protest Turkish attacks and wall construction
3. Ocalan calls an end to hunger strikes and resumption of peace talks
4. Abdullah Ocalan meets with lawyers for the first time since 2011
5. Deir ez-Zor people protest Turkish attacks and wall construction
6. Activists in twelve towns target TUI in campaign supporting kurdish hunger strike.
7. Jailed journalists in Turkey begin hunger strike in protest over PKK leader’s isolation
8. *BREAKING* Welsh Government Minister writes to Jeremy Hunt urging him to contact
9. HDP writes letter to the international community on death fasts
10. NAV-DEM: Support Kurdish and democratic candidates in Europe
11. Lawyers: Prisoners’ demand should be accepted
12. PFLP Secretary General visited MPs on hunger strike in Amed
13. Turkey protests Kurdish language classes at Japanese University
14. Turkish soldiers killed in clashes with Kurdish rebels
15. Ken Loach backs 7000 Kurdish protesters on hunger strike
16. Washington can help strike a deal between Turkey and Kurds in Syria – analysis
17. Syria Kurds say deal made for 31,000 displaced Iraqis to go home

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