On 20 November 2022, Turkey killed 11 civilians in Dêrik. Sozdar Gelhat, a 19 year-old YPJ fighter explains how the attacks made her feel more responsibility to play an active role in the resistance.
On 20 November 2022, Turkey killed 11 civilians in Dêrik.
YPJ Information spoke to Sozdar Gelhat, a 19 year-old YPJ fighter, who explained how the attacks made her feel more responsibility to play an active role in the resistance.
The young fighter said she wants to be able to "prevent new attacks."
Background
On 20 November at approximately midnight, the Turkish state carried out an airstrike on a vehicle in the village of Teqil Beqil near Dêrik. Two civilians were killed in the attack, one of them a guard working at the local power plant. After this first attack, nearby civilians mobilised at the scene to look for the wounded.
Soon after this press statement was recorded, the Turkish aircraft returned to carry out further airstrikes at the same site, targeting the very civilians who came to help the casualties of the first attack. In the three more airstrikes that followed the initial attack, nine of those first response civilians were killed.
