Mehmud Berxwedan, the YPG Kobanê General in Command, has said: “After a one-month resistance we have launched a step-by-step advance towards victory. In the last week in particular Kobanê has become a graveyard for ISIS.”

YPG Kobanê Commander Mahmut Berxwedan spoke to Ronahi TV. He said that, as watched by the world, Kobanê had resisted for 32 days, adding that they were now close to victory.
Berxwedan emphasised that the Kobanê resistance had begun in the villages, where there had been a great resistance from house to house, hamlet to hamlet and from village to village. He added that for 10 to 15 days there had now been resistance on the southern and eastern fronts, adding: “ISIS corpses are in the streets and in every house. We have made a great advance on all three fronts in the last 3 days. Every day we are killing them and seizing their weapons. There is now a clean-up operation going on in Kobanê.”

‘Coalition planes have not hit YPG or civilians’

“Whatever the Turkish press says, the situation of the resistance in Kobanê is apparent”, added YPG Kobanê Commander Mahmud Berxwedan, adding that claims in certain press outlets that coalition planes had hit civilians and YPG positions by mistake were not correct. “Nothing like that has happened,” said Berxwedan, stressing that on the contrary coalition planes had been careful.  

Mahmud Berxwedan said that ISIS had calculated that it would capture Kobanê within a few days and had brought forces in accordance with that plan. He added that while ISIS had captured other countries with such a force, it had not been able to take Kobanê in a month. The YPG commander said: “this demonstrates that the resistance here has been unprecedented. They brought weapons they had taken from the Iraqi and Syrian armies, but we are fighting them with our determination, without any arms support from anywhere.”

Berxwedan added that those who wanted Kobanê to fall were victims of their own imagination, saying: “the fall of Kobanê is a fantasy that will never materialise.”

Berxwedan concluded by saying this was all down to the month-long resistance, adding: “Let all the world see, those who did not believe should see. Kobanê is a place of resistance and victory. It doesn’t matter what anyone says, they should come and see the reality in Kobanê.”