The YPJ (Women’s Defense Units) is a women's army that takes a leading role in women's struggle for freedom and equality. It fights not only with its weapons, but also for social change and transformation based on ideological, democratic, ecological and especially women-based freedom.

YPJ fighters not only fight for their freedom, but also aim to create a more just, equal and free future for their society so that they can be themselves in their own land. For this reason, hundreds of YPJ women in the most recent 'Operation Humanity and Security’ in Hol Camp have been exposing the dirty organisations of ISIS and waging a relentless war for a better future. Not only ISIS families but also other migrant families live in this camp. YPJ also uses its weapons to save these people from ISIS' brutal terrorism. This struggle is not only a demand for individual freedom, but it also aims to protect and preserve the common values of humanity. The women waging this struggle are symbols who stand bravely for freedom and humanity in the complex world of war.

ISIS ENSLAVING WOMEN

ISIS' brutal practices go beyond the destructive effects of war and reveal the dimensions of crimes against humanity. ISIS commits brutal crimes by using women only for sexual enslavement. This organisation enslaves women not only physically but also spiritually and psychologically, penetrating their blood like a cancer cell. It is not content with using this as a religious requirement, intimidating and imprisoning them in a house under the name of hell. For ISIS, woman is a sinner in every sense and a servant created for man. She is used as a breeding machine and a sexual object. For ISIS, a woman is not a human being and can only give birth to children.

A BOMB THROWN INTO THE FUTURE

In Hol Camp, there is a special section called Muhajirat where ISIS families are located. There are foreign women in this section. These women are ISIS members captured in Baxoz. In this section, many mines, tunnels, bunkers, smartphones, a tent organised as a school and an ISIS member in his 30s were captured. In this section, 12-13-year-old boys are married off to women older than them and even older than their mothers. They do this only on the instructions of ISIS gang leaders. Therefore, there are 2-3-year-old children in the Muhajirat section. These children are already being raised with the shaping, style and understanding of ISIS. At the same time, they are put through special military training and thrown into the future like a bomb without a detonator.

TWO OPPOSITE WAYS

The ' Operation Humanity and Security’ in Hol Camp was led by YPJ women. During this leadership, a lot of military equipment was seized, and 40 ISIS members were captured. Most importantly, a Yazidi woman gained her freedom under the leadership of YPJ, embraced life, turned her back on the darkness and chose the light. That is why I would like to point out that the conflict between YPJ's struggle for freedom and ISIS' practice of enslaving women reveals a reality that penetrates deep into humanity. While the YPJ's determined stance, claim and efforts for social transformation show that a future respecting human dignity is possible, ISIS' cruelty and human exploitation reveal the darkest darkness.

Against this barbaric practice of ISIS, YPJ women are proving day by day that they will be light against darkness, freedom against slavery, life against death, good against evil.