The Medya Defense Areas in South Kurdistan have been attacked by tens of thousands of Turkish soldiers on the ground and from the air since 23 April. The guerrillas are resisting this invasion fiercely. ANF ​​is publishing interviews with guerrilla fighters in which they speak about their experiences, their motivation and the fight in the mountains. One of the guerrilla fighters interviewed was Baran Şameri from Kuwait.

"When I got to know the PKK, I decided to become a freedom fighter"

When asked why someone from Kuwait took part in the guerrilla warfare in the Kurdish mountains, Baran Şameri said that he was impressed by the thoughts and ideas of the Kurdish thinker and representative Abdullah Öcalan and that he had therefore chosen this path. He said: "When I got to know the PKK, I decided to become a freedom fighter."

"Öcalan’s paradigm, the way to coexistence and liberation"

Guerrilla Şameri said that Öcalan's ideas bring the peoples of the Middle East together and added: “For Syria, too, Öcalan's paradigm is the way to the rebirth of the coexistence of peoples and to liberation. The Rojava Revolution became a source of great inspiration. The Kurds have put up a lot of resistance in Syria and Rojava. ISIS terror posed a great danger to Syria. In the name of radical Islam and radical groups, ISIS threatened the peoples of the Middle East and wreaked havoc in Syria. But the Kurdish fighters and Rojava as a whole showed huge resistance. We saw that in Raqqa, Deir ez-Zor and Manbij."

Guerrilla Şameri has been in the Kurdish mountains for two years. About his experiences in guerrilla life, he said: “I consider life in the guerrilla as sacred. There is great spiritual inspiration in the mountains of Kurdistan and cooperative spirit is of great importance. The free life of Kurds made a deep impression on me. The most important reason why I joined the PKK is to understand a new struggle and the meaning of a new life."