Following the end of Newroz, in which hundreds of thousands attended, in Yenikapı Square, the police attacked the crowd and detained approximately 200 people, including disabled children and lawyers.
Giving the message that the Labor and Freedom Alliance will walk shoulder to shoulder, EMEP Chairperson Ercüment Akdeniz said: “We have opened the Third Way in Turkey apart from the People's and Nation's alliance. A new history cannot be written without this alliance."
The Istanbul Newroz, which people flock to, started with the members of the Peace Mothers Council lighting the fire. HDP Istanbul Provincial Co-Chair İlknur Birol drew attention to the isolation in Imralı and said: "We will lift the isolation."
Newroz in İzmir, which is celebrated with great enthusiasm every year, has left its place of rebellion and anger against the government due to the earthquakes this year.
The young people who started to flock to Yenikapı Square, the address of 2023 Newroz in Istanbul, greeted PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan with slogans and condemned the isolation.
DBP and HDP provincial co-chairs called on the people of Amed(Diyarbakır) to write a new history and said: “This year's Newroz will be a way to lift the isolation on Mr. Öcalan and to gain freedom for the Kurds.”
Former Amed(Diyarbakır) Metropolitan Municipality Co-Mayor Gültan Kışanak said: "This year, we will bring the meaning of Newroz to the election by establishing the broadest democratic alliance of our people."
The fires of Newroz are lit in 23 provinces and districts with the slogan "Everywhere is Newroz, everytime is freedom" and "Freedom with the fire of Newroz".
İbrahim Yıldız, who has been arrested for 5 years for killing Celal Şenyaşar from Şenyaşar family and injuring Adil Şenyaşar, died in the hospital where he was treated.
YPJ General Command announced that 3 fighters lost their lives together with SDF fighters in the helicopter crash that occurred.
PUK Chairperson Bafil Talabani has issued a message for the SDF fighters who lost their lives in the helicopter crash.
The Şenyaşar family, on the 726th day of the sit-in, shared the message: "We are reminding those who persist in lawlessness; The end and the world of those who become persecutor will be ruined.”
Remzi Önlik, who was forced to settle in the tent city built on the bed of the Tigris River because his house was damaged in the earthquake, and was evacuated due to the flood, said that he did not want to return to the prison-like place, stating that they were victimized twice.
The politicians, who stated that they will carry the rebellion that was revealed on March 8 to the Newroz area, stated that the physical freedom of PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan is the foremost of the messages to be revealed at Newroz.
SDF announced that 9 fighters lost their lives in the helicopter crash in Duhok.