University students and recent graduates in North Kurdistan have a prominent place among the Kurdish youths joining the ranks of the YPG to fight the barbarian ISIS gangs who are ceaselessly attacking the Kobanê town of West Kurdistan, Rojava, for over two months now.

Şîvan Bayar, student at the University of Mersin where a large number of Kurdish students study, also a city hosting large number of Kurdish population who migrated in mainly 90's, has fallen a martyr in Kobanê where he joined the YPG ranks from North Kurdistan.

Şîvan who was a member of the DÖDEF (Confederation of Democratic Students' Associations), the most prominent organisation of Kurdish youths at universities across North Kurdistan and Turkey, served as YPG commandant in the battlefield in Kobanê. Having left the university, where he had been studying at the Department of History Teaching, and joined the YPG in 2013, he was reportedly martyred on November 18.

A commemoration event was organized at Mersin University where his friends from the faculty initiated a moment of silence and received condolences.

In his hometown Şırnak, a commemoration tent was set up in Cudi neighborhood, visited by large masses offering condolences to the Bayar family, including members of the DBP (Democratic Regions Party, formerly BDP).

Şîvan’s brother Lokman Bayar who said his father was killed in the 1990s with no claim, remarked that the killer behind his father and brother had the same mentality, saying; "We struggled for our culture and identity for years and we lost so many people. We buried thousands of youngsters like my brother. But Adıl’s name will be replaced by thousand other.”

The youths who have lost their lives in the struggle against the ISIS in Kobanê in recent months include Suphi Nejat Ağırnaslı, a sociology graduate from Turkey’s prestigious Bosporus University, Kader Ortakaya from Marmara University’s graduate program, Hakan Çelik, a former intern of the Bianet media outlet who had recently completed his journalism degree in Istanbul University, and Aziz Ürselendi who was studying geography at Marmara University.

Another Kurdish youth who left his philosophy program at Mersin University and joined the HPG, Ramazan Akar from Hakkari, code-name Siyabend Zap, lost his life in clashes with ISIS gangs in Maxmur on 12 September.