Students and activists in the city of Florence have occupied the Architecture Faculty in solidarity with Afrin. The students have appealed to the population to support the action and call for the immediate ending of the Turkish aggression against Afrin, Kurds, and the Northern Syria Federation.

Professors at the University Center for International Cooperation of the University of Parma have published an appeal for Afrin.

In the document they wrote:

“In Afrin, the Turkish army is not only killing hundreds of civilians and destroying an entire city, but it is destroying an experience of the most advanced of participatory, confederal, multiethnic and multi-faith democracy.

The Afrin Autonomous Administration has launched an appeal calling for "international organizations to condemn these barbaric attacks" and to help the tens of thousands of refugees who leave the city. Among these "there are children, old people, injured without food or water".

The embarrassing silence of our institutions on the responsibilities of Turkey, our NATO ally, fills us with indignation. - the appeal continues - The situation in Rojava poses serious moral problems and not just diplomats and politicians. The indifference towards these atrocities, in fact, seriously endangers the democratic foundations of our collective life. It is not possible to wait any longer”.