“In the same way peoples of the world united against ISIS darkness and freed humanity from this threat, they should reclaim Kobanê and the peoples’ revolution in the same spirit for human dignity and destruction of ISIS, and support the SDF, YPG and YPJ."
In a statement marking 1 November World Kobane Day, the women’s umbrella organization in North-East Syria, Kongra Star Coordination, said the following:
“ISIS mercenaries attacked Kobanê with tanks and artillery with the support of the Turkish state in 2014 with the goal of eliminating the achievements of the Kurds and the region’s people. The president of the Turkish state said ‘Kobanê is about to fall’. Yet he did not know that the people of Kobanê were trained with the ideas and philosophy of Leader Apo (Abdullah Öcalan).
The people of Kobanê and freedom fighters resisted ISIS barbarism for 133 days and left their mark on the 21st century.
The support of the libertarian people, the commitment of YPG/YPJ fighters and the resistance of Arin Mirkan and Revana revived the spirit of Ishtar and Inanna.
Arîn Mîrkan and Rêvana rejected the reactionary mindset, rape, violence, abduction and enslavement of women and turned the resistance of Kobanê into the resistance of free women with their self-sacrificing actions. The women’s resistance represented by Arîn Mîrkan and Rêvana has become an international symbol today. The Kobanê resistance led by YPG/YPJ grew and became an uprising of the conscience of all the world’s peoples. On this basis, support poured in for the Kurdish people and Kobanê. The international anti-ISIS Coalition was formed. This understanding served all humanity and ISIS was destroyed.
To avenge the defeat of ISIS this time, the Turkish state revealed its true face and occupied Afrin, Serekaniye and Gire Spi by use of banned and chemical weapons. Immoral crimes and crimes against humanity are committed in the occupied territories. From this point of view, a serious stand must be taken against the Turkish state that supports ISIS and its threat to humanity must be stopped because ISIS is preparing for a large scale attack on North and East Syrian regions and occupied areas.
We call on all libertarian peoples to struggle against the Turkish state in the spirit of 1 November World Kobanê Day. In the same way the peoples of the world got united against ISIS darkness and freed humanity from this threat, they should reclaim Kobanê and the peoples’ revolution in the same spirit for human dignity and destruction of ISIS, and support the SDF, YPG and YPJ.”
