'All Kurds should support Rojava and ensure national unity'

Representatives of the Kurdistan Alliance parties called on all Kurds to support Rojava and ensure national unity.


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AMED
Thursday, 26 December 2024

The Kurdistan Alliance parties made a joint statement at the Southeastern Journalists’ Association in Amed (tr: Diyarbakır) on Tuesday highlighting the need for Kurds to ensure national unity against the attacks on Northern and Eastern Syria.

'We must look at the Kurd and Kurdistan issue together'

Speaking here, Ayetullah Aşitî, Chairman of the Azadi Party, said that he wanted to clarify the issue from a religious perspective since they are a religious party. Stating that Allah sent the Qur'an to the oppressed peoples, Aşitî said that Islam in the Middle East is not characterized by peace but by events and wars. He continued, "While Islam emerged for the freedom of the peoples, we have a misconception and put all the blame on the enemy. There is a verse in the Qur'an that says, 'The good is my blessing and the bad is your deeds'. The enemy is our test. But we also need to think about why our problems are not solved, why we cannot produce solutions. It is not because we do not know, it is because we cannot tolerate each other. We must act in unity. If we achieve unity, we will gain. Ideologies are not important in patriotism. We must look at the Kurd and Kurdistan issue together. If we do not create our national unity, we will remain in this situation for another two hundred years. The solution to the Kurdish question depends on the unity of Kurds. A concrete example of this is Rojava. If the Kurdish people act together on the Rojava issue, the world will recognize them as interlocutors and the Kurds will achieve liberation."

Journalists killed in Rojava remembered

Speaking on behalf of the Communist Party of Kurdistan, Yasin Yetişgen commemorated journalists Nazım Daştan and Cihan Bilgin who were killed in a Turkish drone attack in Rojava on 19 December. Yetişgen said he was a friend of Cihan Bilgin from her university years, adding: “She never lost her belief in truth and reality and lost her life for this cause. Their friends will not leave their pen unclaimed."

‘The risks can be eliminated through national unity’

Yetişgen stated that HTS set out from Idlib and reached Damascus to pave the way for global and regional powers, adding: "A new situation has emerged for the peoples and beliefs, especially the Kurds. It is very clear that this situation determines the risks and gains. Rojava Kurdistan must take advantage of the opportunities that it has created for itself at great cost. The risks can be eliminated through national unity. Kurds can only get out of this situation by ensuring their national unity. All peoples can take their place in the new Syria, and the way to do this is federation. Although the Turkish state considers federation as division, everyone knows very well that federation is actually a path to unity. The Turkish state's policy against the Kurds is now bankrupt. Peace in the Middle East is not possible without the Kurds. The Turkish state must stop labeling Kurds as 'terrorists', meet with the SDF, and solve the problem in the region through peaceful and democratic means."

'We must defend the status of Rojava'

Abdulhey Okumuş, spokesperson for the Revolutionary Democratic Kurdish Association (DDKD), stated that a series of developments have been taking place in the Middle East. Okumuş stressed that the most important thing is how the Kurdish people will protect their rights amid the current developments that are now at their doorstep, just like the Treaty of Lausanne: “This opportunity does not knock every day, but once in 100 years. Kurds should use this opportunity correctly. They must form their national unity and become the interlocutor. In this way, they can be a hope for the Kurds in the other parts as well. We must defend the status of Rojava so that it is officially recognized in the world. The new Syrian regime does not have a strong base. Kurds can increase their success by dealing with them and voicing their demands. They could also have the world accept this."

‘Let 2025 be the year of peace, freedom and liberation of Kurds’

Azad Zal, a member of the Şêx Sêid Association, said: "Every Kurdish person should ensure peace and tranquility for themselves. If everyone is at peace with themselves, they will be at peace with those around them, their neighbors and those in their country. The politics done on behalf of the Kurds has willpower. There is always war. There has been war since the world was shared. What is important is the interests of the peoples, first and foremost the interests of the Kurdish people because they did not submit to oppression. The Kurdish people deserve this the most. Let 2025 be the year of peace, freedom and liberation of Kurds."

‘We will protect Rojava more from now on'

Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Co-Chair Çiğdem Kılıçgün Uçar started her speech by commemorating Nazım Daştan and Cihan Bilgin. Underlining that the current process is of importance for the recognition of Kurdish rights and status, Uçar said, "The future of the Kurds is in danger. Rojava is home to Arabs, Kurds and Syriacs. Against the oppressive understanding, the people made a revolution there and established a democratic system. We will protect this system. Turkey cannot intervene in it. Only the peoples can build their own system in Syria. The people of Syria are acquainted with authoritarian and despotic regimes and they don't want that. Not only Kurdistan, but the whole world owes Rojava. Let us pay our debt to Rojava by protecting it. Rojava is like ivy to us, and we hope that this ivy will wrap around all sides. We have only Rojava left. Either we will build this system or the authoritarian regime will suffocate us. We will protect Rojava even more from now on."

Kongra Star: All women must defend the Rojava Revolution

Kongra Star European Coordination called on all women to defend the Rojava Revolution.


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NEWS DESK
Saturday, 28 December 2024

Kongra Star European Coordination issued a written statement on the developments in Syria after the fall of Bashar al-Assad regime.

The statement underlined that Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) came to power after Bashar al-Assad's regime collapsed and added: "Assad fled to Moscow, leaving behind a destroyed country and millions of people deprived of their basic rights. After what happened, the Turkish state launched an attack against our people who had already been displaced, as they were forced to flee from Afrin to Shehba, in 2018 after Turkey invaded the region."

The statement added: "After the attacks by gangs affiliated to the Turkish state, our people were forced to migrate once again and moved to the safe regions of North-East Syria. The attacks by the fascist Turkish state and its affiliated gangs continue. The security chaos in the Manbij region, the torture of civilians, including women and children, the plundering of people's property, the targeting of important areas in the region such as the Tishrin Dam and Karakozak Bridge, the violation of the basic rights of the peoples of Syria show that the incoming government is as dangerous as the oppressive, cruel, racist Baathist regime, especially for women. On the other hand, Western countries are trying to present the new regime as the best alternative in line with their own interests."

The statement said that "the Kurdish people is the main component of Syria's diverse demography. As a result of a long struggle and great costs, we have carried out the Rojava Revolution, which is a women's revolution. After the revolution, a Democratic Autonomous Administration system based on justice, equality, democracy and coexistence was established. Today, these gains are in danger. The Turkish army and its gangs are attacking us from all sides, from Manbij, Ain Isssa, Til Temir to Kobanê. They want to eliminate the women's revolution and to prevent the peoples of the region from living together. We need to show a common attitude and fight against the enemy with the awareness of national unity."

The statement underlined the need to expose the circumstances of the women abducted by the gangs and said: "As Kongra Star European Coordination, we may not be at the direct centre of events, but wherever we are, we continue our social, political and diplomatic struggle. We will struggle to fulfill our role in this process and to convey the women's revolution and the voice of all women in Syria to international organisations and the women of the world. We do not forget the abducted and disappeared women all over Syria.”

Kongra Star called “on international organisations and human rights institutions to no longer remain silent on this atrocity and act in accordance with human rights and international agreements. Uncover the circumstance of the abducted women and hold those responsible to account. We condemn the closure by the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) of the Semalka-Fishabur border gate, through which humanitarian aid should pass to civilians living in the autonomous regions, at a time when we need unity and solidarity among Kurds the most. We call on the KDP to put aside their personal and party profits and stop being enemies to their people. All women, especially Kurdish women and Syrian women, democratic, socialist and revolutionary women's movements should join forces and fight together to build a free future. The Rojava Revolution must be supported against the Turkish state that aims to destroy women's gains. With the unity of women, we will transform all living spaces into areas of struggle and resistance."

SMJÊ calls for action against massacres in North-East Syria: Rojava is the honour of humanity

“Today is the day to protect the human dignity of Rojava,” said the umbrella organization of Yazidi Women's Councils, calling for action against massacres in North-East Syria.


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NEWS DESK
Saturday, 28 December 2024, 17:19

The umbrella organization of Yazidi Women's Councils (SMJÊ) released a statement calling for action against the massacres committed by the occupying Turkish state and its gangs in North-East Syria.

The SMJÊ statement on Saturday said: “Today is the day to protect our honour, dignity, identity and existence. Once again, we call out to all democratic, revolutionary, libertarian, pro-peace and human rights forces: Rojava is the honour of humanity.”

The statement pointed out that the AKP-MHP government continues the ideological legacy of ISIS through gang groups such as HTS and SNA, and Turkey sees this chaotic environment as an opportunity.

“The Turkish state fears that the people of Northern Kurdistan will also rise up with the demand for freedom," SMJÊ said and made the following call: “If you miss this historic opportunity and do not unite, it means complicity in the crimes committed against the Kurdish people. Today is the day to protect the human dignity of Rojava. Everyone must act swiftly against the massacres of women and human beings and fulfil their historical responsibility by taking part in the ranks of the hundred-year-old resistance.”

Vigil at Suruç-Kobanê border on day 6: We must defend Rojava

During the vigil at the Suruç-Kobanê border, activists called for solidarity with Rojava, saying, “It is our duty to defend the system established in Rojava.”


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URFA
Saturday, 28 December 2024

The vigil started in the Suruç district of Urfa on the border of Kobanê in protest at the invasion attacks against North and East Syria continues on its 6th day. The vigil was launched under the leadership of the Democratic Regions Party (DBP), Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) and Free Women's Movement (TJA).

Activists on Saturday paid tribute to Kurdish journalists Cihan Bilgin and Nazım Daştan, who were killed in a Turkish drone attack in Rojava on 19 December, and the victims of the Roboski massacre, which claimed the lives of 34 people, mostly minors, in the countryside of Şırnak province on 28 December 2011.

Speaking here, Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Party Assembly (PM) member Celalettin Erkmen said, "They continue to turn the Middle East into a bloodbath. The imperialist powers do nothing but engage in destruction, denial and ignoring. Against this war, there is a state of democratic life that we call the 3rd Way, and it is currently being built in Rojava. Rojava is a land that was won with the prices paid by young people of great value. Our democratic struggle against attacks will continue. It is our duty to defend the system established in Rojava. If peace is to be achieved in this country, conditions for Mr. Öcalan's freedom must be ensured. Rojava is our achievement. Rojava is us.”

DEM Party Yenişehir District Co-Chair Ramazan Demir said, "Rojava was built based on the paradigm put forward by Mr. Öcalan and it is being targeted today. We must protect this achievement."