In 2014, a group of democratic academics called for November 1st to be a day of solidarity with the Kobanê resistance against ISIS. People took to the streets all around the world to support the historic struggle.
Parties, organisations and institutions released statements marking 1 November World Kobanê Day.
DEM Party: We will continue to embrace the spring created by the Kobanê Resistance
The Central Executive Committee (MYK) of the DEM Party said, “The Kobanî Resistance went down in history as a struggle that symbolised the victory of freedom and light against darkness and oppression, a struggle in which the Kurdish people paid a great price for human values.”
“The peoples of the world watched this resistance of Kurdish women and youth at the cost of their lives,” the statement emphasised: “The spirit of the Kobanê Resistance and the light it created will never be extinguished. With our belief in this light, we will not step back from our freedom, rights and gains. We will continue to embrace the spring created by the Kobanê Resistance for the peoples.”
DEM Party Women’s Council: We will defeat the attacks of the fascist government
DEM Party Women's Council also greeted World Kobanê Day and condemned the ongoing invasion attacks against North-East Syrian regions: “The air strikes carried out by the AKP-MHP war alliance against North and East Syria are an attack on women's gains. Those who resort to attacking the peoples and women in Kobanê to maintain their power with the dirty war politics they wage will never succeed.”
The Council pointed out that: “Together with the women of Kobanî, we will defeat the attacks of the fascist government that cannot tolerate the women's libertarian life built in Kobanê. The day is the day of solidarity with the women who put on courage against the rising misogyny and the walls of fear they have built all over the world, especially in the Middle East, and illuminate the darkness with their historic resistance.”
TAJÊ: Freedom fighters resisted in Kobanê with the philosophy of ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadî’
The Yazidi Women's Freedom Movement (TAJÊ) saluted the peoples' resistance on the occasion of 1 November World Kobanê Day, saying: “With the attack on Kobanê, they wanted to destroy the gains of the Rojava revolution, which was built as a result of 20 years of labour of Leader Apo (Abdullah Öcalan). The genocide against our people in Shengal was not independent of the attacks on Kobanê. ISIS, the product of the male-state and capitalist system, carried out the bloodiest attack against the people of the region in the person of women. As Yazidi women, we suffered deeply during the genocide. Leader Apo's fighters resisted both in Shengal and Kobanê to avenge Yazidi women. We call 1 November and 13 November as a bridge between Kurdistan and the world with the revolution of women and peoples.”
The statement said that freedom fighters resisted in Kobanê with the philosophy of ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadî’ (Woman, Life, Freedom) and added: “Today, the same cry and the same responsibility in the face of the Turkish state's attacks on North and East Syria urges us to stand up and resist against oppression.”
MSD: A symbol of the will of humanity against oppression and terrorism
The statement by the Syrian Democratic Council (MSD) emphasised that the resistance in Kobanê has become a global example of the struggle against the dark and cruel forces. MSD said that Kobanê is important as a symbol of the will of humanity against oppression and terrorism.
MSD pointed out that the occupying Turkish state targeted North and East Syria with the intention of frustrating the Autonomous Administration project and posed a threat to the stability of the region and the future of democracy and justice.
The MSD called on the international community to protect the gains of the people of the region and take a clear position against the violations of the occupying Turkish state.
