To the International Community: The humanitarian crisis caused by the Islamic State (IS) continues to terrorize and displace hundreds of thousands of people in the Middle East. The autonomous canton of Kobani is now bearing the brunt of the IS’s attacks as the international community has mostly been passive. The city has been under siege…
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Category Archives: Kobane
YPG: A call to all the Kobani protestors in Europe
By Redur Xelil: On behalf of the fighters of People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Women Protection Units (YPJ) and all the defenders of the city of Kobani, we salute you. We ask you to be vigilant during your protests and all activities that you are holding for Kobani. Please only unfurl YPJ and YPG flags…
On Kobanê: inaction of Western World and Turkey is more brutal than IS
By Arian Mufid: I don’t need to tell you about the brutality of the IS group over the last several months. I don’t want to give you the background to this tribe, drawn from the most backward families and tribes of the Middle East and the world. But shame on you who proclaim democracy while…
Viva Kurdistan!
By Rick Trujillo: Companeras y Companeros (Sisters and Brothers), Please accept our greetings, (Hola), from southern California. Our organization, LCLAA, Labor Council for Latin American Advancement, San Diego & Imperial Counties, consider the Kurdish family of peoples – your land (tierra) Kurdistan, your fighters and, most especially, your magnificent culture – a blessing to humanity. Your example, over…
Turkish Tanks Defend Ataturk Statue But Not Kobanê
By Amy L. Beam, Ed.D: Sirnak, Turkey, Oct 7, 2014 – Although Kurds have begged Turkey and the world to defend the town of Kobanê against a possible genocide by the Islamic State, the Turkish government continues to refuse, making some observers accuse Turkey of aiding and supplying the Islamic State. Kobanê is in Rojava…
Kobani: Letter to US Elected Representatives
By Dr Amir Sharifi: As a concerned American, I am writing to you to urge you to stand with the people and defenders of Kobani in the Kurdish region of Syria in the face of the ISIS brutal battle for the capture and control of the city. As you know the U. S. action against…
Why Erdogan wants to pursue a hollow peace process
By Arian Mufid: In January 2013 when a co-founder of the PKK was shot dead in Paris, along with two other members of her organisation, the world turned a blind eye to the role of the Turkish security services in commissioning this crime. Sakine Cansız, Fidan Dogan and Leyla Söylemez have become symbols of martyrdom…
Between Iraq and a Hard Place
By Glenn M Stewart B.A. M.A. Oxon: The approval given by the Turkish parliament to allow Turkish troops to conduct military operations against the Islamic State should be seen as a complex and disingenuous policy. Several political considerations will pull Turkey in different directions. Their support of the US led coalition will not be straightforward…
Protect the Syrian Kurdish enclave of Kobani from the Islamists! Prevent another mass murder!
By Tilman Zülch: Urgent appeal to US Secretary of State, John Kerry Dear Secretary Kerry, In the last few days, IS-Islamists have been attacking the small Kurdish enclave Kobani in northern Syria with heavy artillery and modern tanks, while fighter planes of the US and its allies werecircling the region. According to reports, the Islamists have…
Demirtas visits Kobanê and calls on Turkey to act against ISIS
KT News: Selahattin Demirtas, co-chair of the pro-Kurd HDP and candidate in last month’s presidential election in Turkey, today crossed the border to visit the besieged town of Kobanê, where Syrian Kurds have been resisting an ISIS (IS) onslaught for the past 15 days. Demirtas later appeared on Turkish national television and called for Turkey to…
Will the West betray Kobanê? Salih Muslim calls for immediate action to prevent genocide
KT News: Salih Muslim, leader of the PYD (Democratic Union Party) has called on the USA, NATO, the UN and EU to act immediately to prevent a genocide against Kurdish people in Kobanê. “It seems that all international forces are decided on the fall of Kobanê”, Muslim said. The air strikes of the US-led coalition have…
Demonstration against Ethnic Cleansing of the Islamic State and Turkish complicity
Press Release: Fri 26 Sept, 10am-1pm Turkish General Consulate, Los Angeles A demonstration will be held by the Kurdish community in Los Angeles on Friday Sept 26 in front of the Turkish General Consul in Los Angeles from 10:00 AM to 1:00 PM to denounce and protest the ethnic cleansing of Kurds in Syria by…
Declare Western Kurdistan, the Rojawa, as a ‘Safe Haven’!
By Rebwar Rashed: The first non-violent demonstration against the Bashar Al-Assad regime started in late February 2011, more than 3.5 years ago. The people of Syria demanded more freedom and true political pluralism. However the path to more freedom now looks infinite with two hundred thousand casualties, many millions of displaced people, destroyed homes and…
‘Kobanê is in danger … We call on American forces to hit ISIS positions’: YPG
KT News: YPG leaders have again called for US and allied forces to carry out air strikes on ISIS positions that are getting closer to the Kurdish city of Kobanê. Ocalan Iso, deputy leader of the YPG Kurdish forces defending Kobanê, told Reuters that more ISIS mercenaries and tanks had arrived since the U.S.-led coalition began…
