
Monday, August 3
DEM Party Delegation Returns from İmralı, Anniversary of the Sinjar Command Remembered
Meeting on İmralı
Ronahî: The DEM Party İmralı delegation, consisting of parliamentarians Pervin Buldan, Mithat Sancar and lawyer Faik Ozgur Erol, returned from İmralı island after a three-hour meeting with Abdullah Öcalan.
Ronahî: The delegation went to the island today for the purpose of meeting Öcalan and after the meeting will issue a statement tomorrow.
Kamîran: For this reason new information is expected tomorrow.
Anniversary of the Sinjar Command
Ronahî: Across Sinjar, with the participation of hundreds of thousands of people, the martyrs of the third of August two thousand fourteen command were remembered by lighting candles.
Ronahî: In the ceremony it was demanded that Iraq and the whole world grant the rights of the Yazidi community and remove the bones of the martyrs from the mass graves.
Ronahî: The Sinjar Women's Units Command stated in its announcement that the Yazidi women's organization will never allow the community to be subjected to genocide again.
Kamîran: On the other hand, the general commander of the Syrian Democratic Forces, Mazloum Abdi, said that clarifying the fate of all those who were abducted and ensuring the security of Sinjar is a moral, human and international responsibility.
Ronahî: Likewise, the People's Assembly of Makhmour and the Kurdistan Free Life Party also drew attention in their statements to the need for freedom forces and the international community to work for the release of thousands of Yazidis who were abducted.
Suicide Attack in Pakistan
Ronahî: In the Kabal region of Khyber Pakhtunkhwa province in northwestern Pakistan, a suicide attack was carried out in front of a police station.
Ronahî: According to security officials, in the attack the attacker, five police officers and eight civilians lost their lives and eighteen people were injured.
Kamîran: A similar situation is repeated many times in the border regions of Pakistan.
Trump Halts Attack on Iran
Ronahî: President of the United States Donald Trump halted the decision to attack Iran, but that decision is tied to the speed of reaching an agreement with Tehran.
Ronahî: Iranian officials described Trump's claims that Tehran had asked Washington to stop the attack as lies and announced that their military forces are at the highest level of alert.
Kamîran: For this reason the regional situation remains tense.