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WAR ON AFRIN: THE THIRD WEEK
We are now well over three weeks into the Turkish military assault on Afrin – “home to the last of the untouched Yazidi communities (some 25,000 people)…also…home to many of the internally displaced refugees in Syria
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WAR ON AFRIN: THE SECOND WEEK
We are now two weeks into the Turkish military – supported by the paramilitary groups of the Free Syrian Army (“al-Qaida & al-Nusra terrorists” ANF) – assault on Afrin
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KURDISTAN: The “Dirty War” The Price of Wanting Freedom?
there are death squads looking to disband Turkish and Kurdish opposition members
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WAR ON AFRIN: The First Seven Days
Just over a week into the Turkish military assault on Rojava, conflicting reports give varying updates on the situation in the Afrin canton
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Turkey demands “patriotic” coverage of “Operation Olive Branch”(sic)
On January 24, Reporters Without Borders (RSF), the freedom-of-the-press NGO, with its head office in Paris, France, condemned the “increase in censorship and social media arrests in Turkey, that has accompanied the Afrin Operation.”
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AFRIN: International Association of Democratic Lawyers Statement
IADL denounces the invasion of Afrin in Northern Syria as a gross violation of various central principles of International Law
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Statement of the Democratic Self Administration of Rojava in relation to the attacks on Afrin
The Kurds are not willing to give up their struggle especially now that their issue has gained regional and international dimensions in recent years
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Urgent, from Afrin, Rojava
In the last hour (January 20th), Erdogan’s air force attacked and bombarded Afrin. Hevals noted over 72 planes flying over Afrin and bombing indiscriminately
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TURKEY (NOT) CONDEMNED (ENOUGH) FOR ROJAVA INVASION
Turkish military invasion (with the Orwellian title “Operation Olive Branch”) of the Afrin Canton in Rojava continues
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ON A DAY THIS WEEK. The Assassination of Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Dogan and Leyla Saylemez
On a day this week, January 9th, 2013, Sakine Cansiz (Sara), Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) Paris Representative Fidan Doğan (Rojbin), and Leyla Şaylemez were shot dead in their Paris office
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