To mark 1 November, World Kobanê Day, a press conference was held at the HDP Istanbul Provincial Organization.

Organised with the slogan 'Free Kobanê, Free world', at the press conference, HDP Istanbul Provincial Co-Chair, Cengiz Çiçek, condemned the latest Turkish state's attacks on Kobanê.

"The resistance - he said - was not only for the defense of the different identities living in that region, but also for the progressive humanity and the advocacy of all universal values".

The HDP executive said that the resistance in Kobanê is "the 21st century Stalingrad resistance", comparing it to the resistance in the Russian city when Hitler fascism was thrown into the bin of history and the darkness of fascism was prevented from dominating the world.

DAESH, said the HDP executive, represents a danger to all humanity and was defeated in Kobanê.

DBP Istanbul Provincial Chair, Ali Riza Bilgili, said that the resistance of Kobanê has been growing together with the democratic struggle of the Kurdish people in the Middle East. "To attack this resistance is to suppress the peoples here. - he said - Our struggle against oppression will be victorious".

Sedat Senoglu, HDK Executive Board Member said: "Kobanê is not our history, it is our future".