The resistance of the YPG and the YPJ forces against the attempts of the ISIS gangs to occupy Kobanê continues on its 68th day. As the gangs suffer setbacks in the face of the resistance, some of the people from Kobanê who had to take refuge in Suruç are returning to the town while some others return after leaving their families in Suruç in order to take part in the ongoing resistance.

60 year-old Mahmud Salih Seydi, who had to move from the Elîşar village of Kobanê to Qop village in Suruç together with his wife and 7 children following the attacks of the gangs, has now returned to Kobanê and taken his place in the YPG ranks.

Seydi is the father of the young teacher, Cehide Mahmud, from the Martyr Amara Language Institution, who made an appeal for aid for education material to teach Kurdish to the children from Kobanê in the village of Qop. The appeal was previously communicated by our Agency. Seydi returned to Kobanê after he placed his children and wife in Qop and he has joined the YPG ranks on his return.

The wife of Seydi, Şemsê Sino, said that her husband’s dream is the liberation of Kobanê and said that he returned to the YPG ranks saying: “I will defend our people and our lands”. Sino said her husband wanted to join the defence of their lands despite being 60 years old and added: “These are the lands of our fathers and grandfathers. Why did ISIS attack us? Why did they force the displacement of people? But the Kurds cannot be annihilated by this savagery. Kurds are not just a few people here and there but are millions of people and everyone is very well aware of the realities”.

Sino also strongly criticized the artificial border between North Kurdistan and Rojava saying: “We demand the removal of these borders between us. As Elîşar is our village, Qop is as well. We want to return to our own home, to Kobanê. We will for sure return. And we will resist and defend our lands until the last drop of our blood”.

Cehide Mahmud, the daughter of Seydî, said they are proud of their father joining the defence of Kobanê despite being 60 years old and added: “My father has taken his place at the front by joining the ongoing resistance in Kobanê. I greet him and all the fighters resisting in Kobanê. My father brought us here, and after meeting all our needs, he returned to the resistance in which he has always taken part from the very beginning.”