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🔸Hunger strikes break out in Turkish prisons
🔸Turkey freezes assets of aid groups
🔸Kurdish commander warns of regional tensions
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A mass hunger strike by Kurdish prisoners in Turkey started on Monday, and is set to continue well into 2024 or until demands are met for an immediate resolution to the Kurdish issue and freedom for PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan.
The Turkish government has frozen the assets of certain humanitarian organisations following its devastating military campaign against Kurdish-controlled regions in northern Syria and the Kurdistan Region of Iraq.
Syrian Democratic Forces or SDF Commander Mazloum Abdi condemned the Hamas attack on Israelis and Israel’s response, while also highlighting the risks of a new cycle of extremist terror in the region.
Journalists, lawyers and human rights activists will gather at the National Press Club in Washington DC on 9 December for the Belmarsh Tribunal into threats against free speech under President Biden.
