Reactions are growing against the invasion attacks launched by the Turkish state against South Kurdistan on 23 April. Forces affiliated with the KDP began to make intensive shipments to the guerrilla areas targeted by the Turkish state's attacks.

KDP ex-peshmergas criticize the Turkish state's invasion attacks and the KDP's deployment to guerrilla areas, and constantly call for avoiding a fratricide war with the PKK. Some peshmerga even put down their weapons, saying, "I will shoot myself rather than shooting at the PKK."

In Rojava too there are those who were KDP peshmergas in the past. One of these former peshmerga is Hesen Yusif Mele Hüseyin, who lives in the village of Girasor in Dêrîk on the Rojava-South Kurdistan border.

Hesen Yusif Mele Hussein said that he served as a peshmerga in Zakho for 5 years in the 1990s. "The Turkish state wants to occupy our lands, be it Syria, Iraq, North Kurdistan or South Kurdistan. We should not allow the Turkish state to enter these lands and kill our brothers.”

Hesen Yusif added: “If the Turkish state bombs and kills the peshmerga with its war planes, the peshmerga must stand up to the Turkish state. The houses and gardens of the people are bombed throughout the region where the Turkish state attacks. All the villages on the border have been damaged by the attacks. The Turkish state is bombing the people under the pretext of the PKK presence.

If we are united, the Turkish state couldn’t stand against us

Emphasizing that everyone should be united against the Turkish invasion, Hesen Yusif Mele Hüseyin said: “All Kurds must unite so that there could be no Turkish invasion. If establish our unity and fulfil our duties, no one could stand in our way. If we're not together, they'll do anything. There should be no fratricide war between us and the PKK. Aren't both the PKK and the peshmerga Kurds? They are both Kurds and brothers. The Turkish state should not invade our lands. If we stand united, the Turkish state could not stand against us.”