Thursday, January 15, 2026


'One religion, one identity' policy targets the peoples in Syria'

Drawing attention to HTS's massacre policies against the Alawite, Kurdish and Druze peoples, activist Kader Uzun said, "One language, one religion, one army and one identity is a fascistic mentality. This mentality aims to destroy both Kurds and Alevis."



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AMED
Thursday, January 15, 2026

HTS, led by Jolani, which seized power after the overthrow of the Assad regime in Syria, continues to increasingly attack minority groups. These attacks, which first started against Alevis and Druze, lastly continued in the Eşrefîye and Şêxmeqsûd neighborhoods of Aleppo, where Kurds live densely.

While war crimes committed against the civilian population in these regions are not followed by international institutions, the country's administration shows its hatred towards different languages and cultures in every field, based on the policy of "one religion, one race and one army". While this hatred, carried out by the gangs under the name of the 'Syrian army', brings with it massacres and forced migration, the displaced Alevi and Kurdish regions are wanted to be Arabized.

Stating that this policy of massacre against different identities continues systematically, Kader Uzun, an activist of the Democratic Alevi Associations (DAD), stated that the peoples in the Middle East are being separated day by day and religious impositions are increasing. Pointing out that the policies implemented in the region are inhumane, Kader Uzun emphasized that Alevis, Druze and all oppressed peoples, especially Kurds, should wage a common struggle.

Kader Uzun stated that the process is a period in which fundamental rights to life are openly violated and said, "In the process of reshaping the Middle East, global and regional nation states come together and draw maps with a barbaric mentality. At these tables, policies that ignore the Kurds and even aim to eliminate them are produced."

'MASSACRES ARE A COMMON PROBLEM OF ALL PEOPLES'

Pointing out that the policies pursued by nation states, especially in the Middle East and Kurdistan, are based only on interests and interests, Kader Uzun stated that this process is fed by massacres and said: "This orientation towards the Kurdish people, Alevis, Druze and other oppressed peoples is inhumane. This is a historical responsibility that no one with a conscience can remain silent about. This issue is not only the common problem of the Kurds, but also of all the peoples living in the region. What the Kurds are experiencing is not a destiny. What is happening is related to the artificial border policies of nation states and the capitalist system's colonization of the Middle East. This picture is the realization of a barbaric understanding reminiscent of the ISIS mentality in the region through the subcontracting of colonial structures. The only way to stop this process is to build a common line of struggle with the peoples."

'WE HAVE TO BE THE SUBJECT OF THE STRUGGLE'

Reminding that the Kurdish people have been waging an honorable resistance for years, Kader Uzun added that what happened was not limited to the Kurds and said, "The massacres against Alevis and Druze deeply wound the conscience of humanity. We cannot just offer support; We have to be the subject of this struggle. We are deeply ashamed and saddened by what happened. A common stance must be taken against these massacres and the monolithic state projects imposed in the Middle East."

'ONE RELIGION AND ONE LANGUAGE IS IMPOSED IN THE REGION'

Stating that they want to create a single religion, one nation and one flag structure in the region, Kader Uzun said, "One language, one religion, one army and one identity is a fascistic mentality. This mentality aims to destroy both Kurds and Alevis. However, the Middle East is a geography that has historically existed with its differences. The peoples resist these impositions, even if the price is their lives. Because a future cannot be built with monism, fascism and tyranny."

'SOLIDARITY AND ORGANIZATION CAN STOP MASSACRES'

Emphasizing that it is vital for the Alevi, Kurdish and Druze peoples to establish a common line of struggle, Kader Uzun said, "Peoples become easier targets when they are left apart. As long as there is no solidarity and organized unity, the massacres continue. This cycle of violence cannot be broken without unified coordination. Therefore, this line needs to be strengthened both in Iran, Syria and Rojava today. These fascistic and massacring mentalities cannot survive any longer with the imposition of language or religion."

'THE MIDDLE EAST CANNOT BE PAINTED IN ONE COLOR WITH FASCISTIC PROJECTS'

Pointing out that the support given to Rojava is of vital importance, Kader Uzun finally said: "Today, Rojava, tomorrow another geography will become a target. We express this situation not out of fear, but in the name of shame and human dignity in the face of the atrocities. It is not enough to just condemn; We have to be the active subject of the struggle. The Middle East cannot be painted in one color with fascistic projects drawn at the table. The peoples of this geography will continue to exist with their own differences and defend this richness."


The Ishtar Assembly called on the reactionary mentality to look at the traces left by revolutionary women in history

The Ishtar Assembly said, "We condemn the mentality that sees women as 'property belonging to the home' and declare that women are revolution, life and freedom. No power can stand against the will of a conscious and conscious woman."


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MAXMÛR
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

The Ishtar Assembly, which operates in the Martyr Rustem Judi Refugee Camp in Maxmûr, made a written statement about the words of the imam named Mehzer about the female fighter who was martyred while resisting the attacks on the Şêxmeqxûd and Eşrefiyê neighborhoods of Aleppo and whose body was tortured by HTS gangs.

Referring to the fact that religious scholars should be an example of mercy, justice and respect, the statement said, "Unfortunately, sometimes we see that some people use this duty to humiliate and disregard women. The humiliated woman is a mother, sister, wife, revolutionary and above all a human being. Therefore, no belief or idea allows a person's dignity to be trampled on. Because beliefs are based on 'wisdom and morality'. The fact that an imam, who should be in a position of wisdom, freely expresses his anger and hatred towards a woman who defends his land and his people, shows that this person has moved away from his real mission. We know that the use of hate language against women leads to an increase in violence against women in families and on the streets."

The statement continued: "As history has shown, women are not only beings responsible for their homes, but also builders of life and protectors of social dignity. Undoubtedly, the labor given at home is also sacred, but limiting and squeezing women only to housework is nothing but attempts to leave women without willpower. Women who are involved in the fields of war and science have shown that their borders today are much further than the limits drawn for them by the dominant mentality.

The reactionary mentality that wants to rule society only under sexism; We call on them to look at the traces left in history by all revolutionary women, from the Rindêxans to Adîle Xanim, Leyla Qasim, Sara, Arîn, Denîz, Leyla Qasim and Gerîla Amara, who sacrificed their lives for their country and people in the Şêxmeqxûd and Eşrefiyê neighborhoods, in order to get rid of the sexist mentality.

On this basis, we condemn the mentality that sees women as 'property belonging to the home' and declare that women are revolution, life and freedom. No power can stand against the will of a conscious and conscious woman."

Halide Türkoğlu: It is a duty of humanity to protect Rojava

DEM Party Women's Assembly Spokesperson Halide Türkoğlu stated that the gangs that attacked in Aleppo should be held accountable at the first Women's Assembly meeting of the year and said, "It is everyone's human duty to protect Rojava."


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NEWS CENTER
Wednesday, January 14, 2026

DEM Party Women's Assembly Spokesperson Halide Türkoğlu made the opening speech of the Women's Assembly meeting held at the Headquarters in Ankara.

At the first Women's Assembly meeting of 2016, Halide Türkoğlu said that 2025 was a year in which the struggle was increased in every aspect and the hope for peace grew.

Halide Türkoğlu said, "The Peace and Democratic Society Process, which started with Mr. Öcalan's February 27 call, has been a process that has increased the struggles for hope and freedom in every field, and this process continues. We, women, took action from the first moment the call was made. We said that women are the subject of the struggle for peace and democracy."

Halide Türkoğlu, who explained the struggle of women to spread the call, also drew attention to the developments in the Middle East.

Halide Türkoğlu said, "The developments in the world, the Middle East and the country are of course one of the agendas that affect the lives of us women the most."

Pointing to the attacks on Kurds in Aleppo, Halide Türkoğlu said, "Turkish-backed forces affiliated with the jihadist, misogynistic HTS have committed crimes against humanity and women in these neighborhoods. Once again, the female body was seen as a battlefield. A female resistance fighter was tortured to death in front of the eyes of the whole public. We know very well that the gains of the Kurdish people and women were targeted with these attacks. It was made for the free and equal life of peoples, women and beliefs together."

Halide Türkoğlu said, "These gangs that commit crimes against humanity and women should be held accountable," and added: "The fate of women and young people who were kidnapped while leaving the neighborhoods due to the attacks should be investigated; International rights organizations and women's organizations should step in on this issue. Syria does not need a monist, racist, sectarian and sexist understanding of the nation state. The real need of the peoples, women and youth in Syria is a common and equal life together with their multi-identity structure and beliefs. Turkey's Syria policy should be shaped by defending this life. The resistance put forward in the neighborhoods has once again shown the whole world that neither the Kurdish people nor women have pledged allegiance to this jihadist genocidal mentality, and they will not do so."

Stating that it is everyone's human duty to be a voice for Rojava, Halide Türkoğlu said, "Because Rojava is our existence. Rojava is our female identity, our honor, our line! We will show this in every field! This struggle is not only the struggle of Kurdish women, but also the struggle of all humanity and women. We call out to all women, women's organizations and the international public: It is everyone's humanitarian duty to be a voice for Rojava."

Recalling the march of the Peace Mothers Assembly to Ankara to be a voice for Rojava, Halide Türkoğlu said: "I would like to share with you the words of the Peace Mothers: 'An inhumane war is being waged in Rojava. We condemn those who are waging this war. Turkey trained those gangs and sent them to war. They are planning on the blood of Kurdish children. This is a war against humanity. We want peace. The Minister of Foreign Affairs should resign. We are calling out to the international community. Colani is ISIS. Turkey supports them. Once again, we say peace. We don't want to negotiate over the blood of Kurds.' The demand and word of the Peace Mothers is also our word."

Noting that the life built in North and East Syria is not a danger for Turkey, Halide Türkoğlu emphasized, "As those who pay the heaviest price of war, we warn: The language and policy that will be dominant both inside and outside is the language of peace, and the implementation of policies that will serve peace."

Referring to the rising resistance in Iran and Eastern Kurdistan, Halide Türkoğlu said, "Every policy carried out with the mind of a monist, sexist, militarist, sectarian nation-state will hit the struggle of peoples and women wherever they are. The actions against the practices of the fascist mullah regime in Iran, which are the continuation of the 'Jin Jiyan Azadi' rebellions, are an indication of this."

Halide Türkoğlu also reacted to misogynistic policies in Turkey, reminding that nearly 300 women were murdered by men in 2025. Stating that women's lives are stolen by judicial packages, Halide Türkoğulu emphasized the importance of women's struggle and joint meetings against all these attacks and pointed out that this struggle "worries the mentality that insists on war the most".

Halide Türkoğlu reacted that serving the women's rally in Ankara as a DEM Party rally was also a conscious perception operation. Halide Türkoğlu said, "With these perception operations, it is aimed to overshadow the demands of independent women's organizations, which are the real founders of the rally, for equality, freedom and peace."

Halide Türkoğlu finally stated the following: "Dear women; Although our job is more difficult than ever, our belief in our struggle, the memories of our comrades we lost for this cause, the resistance of our female comrades who were captured in prison, and the determined stance of the Peace Mothers are our greatest source of morale and motivation. Yes, we are angry, but we are never hopeless! We will continue our work with this motivation. We will not leave a single area where we are not organized. We will build an honorable life in these lands against this corrupt, male-dominated order. They should have no doubt that no woman will swear allegiance to their dark order. The truth and history of women in the Middle East continue to give hope and courage to all women and peoples in this century. This is where strength, faith and courage lie. 2026 will be a year in which we will grow our organization and solidarity, unite around the Peace and Democratic Society Process in the most tight way, and build honorable peace. With this belief, I greet you all. Long live the women's struggle! Jin Jiyan Azadi!

Rojava is facing the massacre, everyone is resisting!

DBP Co-Chair Keskin Bayındır said, "The attacks in Aleppo and Dêr Hafir today are an attack on Pîrsûs, Mahabad, Hewlêr, Silêmanîyê. Rojava is facing a massacre today. Everyone stand up," he said.



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RIHA
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Riha Democratic Institutions Platform marched from Pirsûs (Suruç) district to Kobanê border with the slogan "The people of Rojava are not alone". Leader Apo's brother Mehmet Öcalan, Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Co-Chair Keskin Bayındır and Peoples' Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) Spokesperson Ayşegül Doğan participated in the march.

The people gathered in Cumhuriyet Square in the district center and marched with the banner "Rojava is conscience, freedom, resistance, it cannot be surrendered". People marching on Aligor Street chanted slogans such as "Bê Serok jiyan nabe", "Evder Kurdistan e ciyê egîda ne", "Bijî berxwedana Rojava", "Bijî Serok Apo", "Bijî berxwedana QSD'ê", "Jin, jiyan azadî" and "Şehîd namirin". The people who came in front of the DEM Party district building made a statement here.

In his speech, Human and Freedom Party (PIA) Chairman Ahmet Kaya said: "Hello to the people who wrote history with resistance. 15 years ago, the civil war started in Syria. The aim of those who started that war was to send the so-called anti-democratic Baath regime and build a democratic regime. Turkey also supported that regime. Is the regime that is being tried to be built today at the stage reached after the deaths of hundreds of thousands of people more democratic than it was then? With what motives do you support the actions that make the Baath regime look like it? You support it just so that the Kurds do not own anything there. If Nimrod came there, they would still support him.

I have a few words for those who support these Muslims with religious motives. While the religion of Islam, which we actually believe in but you do not believe in, prohibits the killing of people, you make a justification for the killing of those religious people? Is killing the only solution of Islam to problems? Believing in the prophet you are subject to does not happen by growing 3 inches of beard."

DBP Co-Chair Keskin Bayındır said, "It is the attacks in Aleppo that make us stand up in Kurdistan and the whole world. Our emotions were revolted by 2 neighborhoods, Ziyad was Aleppo. It was Kurdish women and youth who lifted us up. Today, the whole of Kurdistan is standing in their footsteps. Ziyad Aleppo apologized to his people on his way to martyrdom. We apologize to him. Our apology will be our struggle. Our people will stand until the Kurdish people win their struggle."

Stating that the ISIS mentality wants to destroy the status of North and East Syria with their ties, Bayındır said, "Since they do not have the power to do this, there are statements of support from Ankara every day. They are making statements of support for HTS. They should know very well that; The people of Kurdistan will not allow this dirty mentality. The Kurdish people, the geography of Kurdistan will be a grave for this dirty mentality."

Keskin Bayındır silenced his speech as follows: "Now Dêr Hafir and Tîşrîn are leaving. They are trying to draw the Kurds to the east of the Euphrates. But the Kurds will live freely in their entire geography. There are those in Turkey who are against this process. They appeared in the attacks in Aleppo, Tîşrîn and Dêr Hafir. They make statements of support on television every day. There have been many processes in the past, these processes have been disrupted by the TAF. Today, the Ministry of Defense, MIT and Foreign Affairs ministers are trying to disrupt the process. They say they are brothers of HTS. We say it from Suruç; SDF is our brother, we are with them.

For this, come to your senses and do not be hostile to the Kurds. Kurds have extended their hands for peace. Those who want HTS's victory should look at Kobane. The HTS mentality is a scourge on the entire Middle East. For this reason, we will be on the streets and squares until these attacks are over. No one should say stay at home. Did you say that no one should sit down against the massacre in Aleppo? We will never sit down. It is my call to the Kurdish people; This issue is a Kurdistani issue. They want to take the gains in Rojava. The attacks in Aleppo and Dêr Hafir today are attacks on Pîrsûs, Mahabad, Hewlêr, Silêmanîyê. Rojava is facing a massacre today. Everyone stand up."

Drawing attention to the past 10 years of the Kobanê resistance victory against ISIS brutality, DEM Party Spokesperson Ayşegül Doğan said, "What we have been going through for 100 years has caused the anger of the Kurdish people. The Kurds are not only angry. The Kurds do not want to remain silent. The hearts of the Kurds are being targeted. Because the issue is not a matter of two neighborhoods. The issue is the revival of a 100-year-old history of denial, extermination, massacre, massacre, migration, pain and tears."

The statement ended after the speeches.

The people of Hesekê, Hol and Til Temir react to the massacre in Aleppo


Thousands of people from the cities of Hesekê, Hol and Til Temir condemned the massacres carried out by the Interim Government gangs in Şêxmeqsûd and Eşrefiyê and called on the international community to fulfill its responsibilities and punish the criminals.



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NEWS CENTER
Thursday, January 15, 2026

Demonstrations were held with the participation of thousands of people in the cities of Hesekê and Hol in order to condemn the massacres carried out by the Syrian Interim Government gangs against the people in the Şêxmeqsûd and Eşrefiyê neighborhoods of Aleppo. In the city of Til Temir, the Democratic Union Party (PYD) Women's Assembly made a statement.

HESEKÊ

The march started from the Kevok Junction in the Til Hecer District and continued to the Şehit Serhed Junction in the Muftî District. Here, Hesekê City Council Advisor Kilara Efrîn and Internal Security Forces Command Spokesperson Ciwan Hesekê made speeches. The speakers reacted to the attacks on the people of the region and the massacres in the neighborhoods of Aleppo.

The march ended with slogans saluting the Asayish and SDF resistance.

HALL

Hundreds of citizens from the city of Hol and its countryside reacted to the massacre in Aleppo's Şêxmeqsûd and Eşrefiyê neighborhoods with a mass march. The march continued to the Education Association in the city.

Speaking here, Hol City Council Co-Chair Elaa El Sebahî said, "The blood of Syrians is forbidden to each other. What is happening in Aleppo is a clear violation of international law."

Autonomous Administration Economy Council Co-Chair Mihemed Henşol and PYD Hall Co-Chair Emar Musa also made speeches. In the speeches, the attacks of the Transitional Government's gangs directly on the people were condemned and it was stated that these attacks were to strike a blow to the Syrian mosaic and cause sedition.

The march ended with slogans in support of the SDF.

TIL TEMIR

PYD Til Temir Women's Assembly made a statement in front of its headquarters and condemned the attack on the people of Şêxmeqsûd and Eşrefiyê.

The statement was read by PYD Co-Chair Ronaz El Yunis.

The Assembly stated that the attacks were a violation of the signed agreements and against the Autonomous Administration project.

Finally, the council reiterated its commitment to the martyrs of the Şêxmeqsûd and Ashrafiyê Resistance and called on the international community and human rights organizations to protect the people of Aleppo.

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