Sending a message to Van Newroz celebrations, philosopher Noam Chomsky said: "Kurdish people have faced and overcome terrible repression and violence. That is a lesson that Kurdish resistance and accomplishment has seared into our consciousness."
A message of resistance against the oppression of the government has been given in the Newroz Celebrations held in Serhad and Botan.
The only message in the Newroz celebrations in Van have been "It is time for the freedom of Öcalan'. Speaking at the event where people keep shouting slogans, HDP MP Feleknas Uca said: "You will never be able to prevent the demand for the freedom of Öcalan."
For the 2022 Istanbul Newroz to be celebrated in Yenikapı, citizens residing in distant districts of İstanbul are pouring to Yenikapı to celebrate Newroz. Despite the cold weather, the citizens are experiencing a festive enthusiasm with their colorful clothes.
Celebrating Newroz day of the peoples, PKK and PAJK prisoners called on the Kurds to participate in the celebrations.
The number of those arrested increased to 11 with the decision to arrest 4 of the women detained in the Diyarbakır-based operation.
189 local and foreign journalists applied for accreditation to follow the Diyarbakır Newroz.
Five years have passes since Kemal Kurkut was murdered by the police during Newroz celebrations in Diyarbakır. Kemal Kurkut's mother Secan Kurkut asked those who will participate in the celebrations this year to remember Kemal and said: "Think of Kemal everytime a Newroz fire is lit."
Journalists Ertuş Bozkurt and Mikail Barut were detained after a raid on their homes in Diyarbakır.
Continuing her struggle for justice in front of the Urfa Courthouse, a libel suit was filed against Emine Şenyaşar with the claim that she 'insulted' AKP MP İbrahim Halil Yıldız, whose relatives and boduyguards killed Şenyaşar's husband and two sons.
Esma Başkale, who is being held in Bakırköy Women's Closed Prison, reported that their wards were raided arbitrarily and she was threatened with death.
At the 26th International Kerala Film Festival held in India, the "Cinema Spirit of the Year Award" was given to Kurdish filmmaker Lisa Çalan.
Young men and women who opened the Polen Youth Culture House in memory of the 33 dream travelers who were massacred in Suruç said, "Our struggle will live on in Polen Youth and Culture House.
Underlining that she has been missing her father for 26 years, Selma Özkan, daughter of ill-prisoner Mehmet Emin Özkan, said: "We get anxious everytime the phone rings thinking that it's bad news. I wish he could come back home in his last days."
Stating that Newroz is the "Day of Freedom" for Kurds, Kurdish politician Ahmet Türk, said, "I invite our people to join the Newroz celebrations so that Newroz will be more enthusiastic and there will be more participation. Participating in Newroz celebrations is our duty.”