During the NRLS (Rojava Centre for Strategic Studies) workshop on migration and ways to stop migration, participants made a joint call to stop the systematic migration imposed by hostile systems. They also called on migrants to return to their homes and defend their territories.

Sebah Şabo from the Syriac component, Sheikh Mihemed El Qadrî from the Islamic community, Farûq Tozo from the Yazidi community, Mihemed Hemîd, who was wounded in an attack of the occupying Turkish state, war veteran Ferîde Omer, Suad Mistefa, the mother of Martyr Hevrîn Xelef, and Fikret Mistefa, a migrant from Afrin, participated in the session chaired by Ekrem Hiso, a member of the KNK (Kurdistan National Congress) Executive Committee.

Ekrem Hiso emphasised the importance of the workshop in response to the Turkish state's attacks on the region and its special war policies, and called for a halt to systematic migration.

Fikret Mistefa, an Afrin migrant living in Shehba, drew attention to the crimes of the Turkish state against Afrin and said, "We will resist against all policies until we liberate our city and return to our homes."

Ferîda Omer called on the people of the region to be careful, not to give up the resistance and to protect the values of the martyrs.

Suad Mistefa, the mother of martyr Hevrîn Xelef, stated that the Turkish state is trying to break the will of the people of the region with the attacks and said, "We should not leave our lands and we should unite."

Sebah Şebo, referring to the policies implemented against Assyrian, Syrian and Chaldean components, stated that the Ottoman genocide policies are still continuing and added: "They want to destroy the project of common life and democratic nation."

Farûq Tozo called the massacres against Yazidis a "genocide" and called for the return of the IDPs and their participation in the democratic nation project.

Hemîd Mihemed, who was injured in a chemical weapons attack of the occupying Turkish state against Serêkaniyê, said that his migration journey started from Kobanê, continued to Afrin and then to Serêkaniyê, where he was injured in a chemical weapons attack.

Sheikh Mihemed Al-Qadri stated that migrants are facing assimilation policies and added, "Religious people should fulfil their duties and call on the community not to leave their lands."

The participants also discussed the results of the survey conducted by NRLS in 2016. The workshop will continue with the topic of migration, its causes and consequences.