The Kurdish youths flocking to the border are determined to defend Kobanê against the savage attacks of inhuman gangs calling themselves the Islamic State.

Speaking to ANF before crossing the border to join the ranks of the YPG /YPJ (People's /Women's Protection Units), Ruken Eruh and Soreşger Berxwedan stressed that it was a responsibility and duty to defend and protect Kobanê where the heart of the Kurdish people is beating.

Ruken is a 38-year-old woman who spent 10 years in prison due to the struggle she gave against the denial of her identity. She is one of the hundreds of women who have taken their way to Kobanê to fight the Islamic State gangs.

Ruken, who has been suffering from breast cancer for years, says that she will recover only by going to Kobanê. She tells that she has decided to join YPJ ranks to fulfill her duty as a Kurd and to make further endeavour for the protection of the Kurdish people and their lands.

Recalling that ISIS posed a threat to not only the Kurdistan region but to the whole world, Ruken emphasises that; “Should we fail to stop ISIS in Rojava, we will enter a dark world which would be the end of humanity.”

Ruken stresses that it is especially women who should ensure an active participation in the process, and that the attacks of ISIS gangs particularly targeted the women gender. Ruken calls on all women to say stop to the massacres committed by the gangs.

Soreşger Berxwedan, yet 22, has been living in a Turkish metropolis just like many other Kurdish youths who were forced to leave their lands and migrate to other cities dozens off years ago.

Soreşger who has also taken his way to Kobanê along with many other Kurdish youths, underlines that joining YPG ranks is a responsibility and duty rather than a sense conscience.

"The cruelty imposed on Kobanê, the Kurdish people and lands today is being inflicted on all of us", Soreşger says and woves to fight ISIS to the last drop of blood, while accusing the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan of being a party to the savagery and massacres perpetrated by ISIS.

Condemning the world's silence at Kobanê, Soreşger says that “We will fight and resist until the whole world hears our voice and our people attain freedom. They left us no choice but to fight. Resistance is a kind of fate of the Kurdish people."