STOP THE TURKISH STATE FROM EXTERMINATING THE AUTONOMOUS COMMUNITIES IN ROJAVA
Communities in Rojava are heavily under attack by Erdogan’s Turkish regime and its Jihadist allies.
Erdogan is taking advantage of the upheaval happening in Syria, with the fleeing of the dictator Assad at the hands of the Syrian National Army, an ally of the Turkish government in the Muslim Brotherhood.
The Turkish government has recently amassed its army troops on the Syrian border, carrying out military actions, including shelling the Kurdish communities and intervening in support of the Jihadist allied troops.
Erdogan has declared that the end of the Kurdish Workers’ Party (PKK) and the Kurdish militias (YPG) has come, both labelled as terrorist organizations, announcing an attack on the city of Kobane.
Kobane: Symbol of Resistance against DAESH
Let’s remember that the Kurdish militias, composed of both men and women, played a decisive role in the defeat of DAESH (aka Islamic State), and with the conquest of Kobane in 2014, they marked the end of that terrorist regime. From this important victory, the communities of Northern Syria, in the Rojava region, were able to implement, in harmony with other ethnic groups, a path of Democratic Confederalism, without a central state, based on self-management of the territory, gender equality, and environmental respect.
All of this has always been opposed by Erdogan’s Turkish regime, which, with the occupation of Damascus by its Jihadist allies, sees the opportunity to deliver a fatal blow to this important experience in Rojava. Erdogan’s goal, behind the call for the disarmament of the Kurdish militias and their integration into the Syrian National Army, is to eliminate them definitively, leaving the autonomous communities of Rojava at the mercy of the Turkish army.
CALL FOR INTERNATIONAL SOLIDARITY
In the face of this explicit will to annihilate the achievements of the Kurdish communities in Rojava, the U.S., which has greatly benefited from the sacrifices of the Kurdish militias, decisive in the defeat of DAESH, remains inactive. They are too interested in maintaining relations with the Turkish regime, which controls NATO bases. The same applies to so-called democratic European governments, due to the commercial interests they have with that regime, such as arms sales, a regime they finance to prevent the departure of migrants.
Only a large-scale mobilization by workers around the world can exert the necessary pressure to prevent Erdogan from annihilating the autonomous Kurdish communities in Rojava.
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