France, Coordination of Anarchist Groups - Resistors
libertarian 2 - KURDISH STATE, 2015 the revolution was victorious
face Daech and state Turk! (fr, it, pt) [machine translation]
(a-infos-en@ainfos.ca)
Rojova ---- The summer that just ended was charged with violent events on the Kurdish
situation and leaving the fighter · e · s face two opponents at once. Whereas an excellent
analysis was produced on the context and the social organization of the revolution PKK
(Kurdistan Workers' Party) in Rojava in No. 102 News & Analysis Libertarians, this article
will report the facts that held during the summer in this area of conflict which now
confront each other Kurds, Islamic State and Turkish State. ---- The drama of suruç ----
In late January 2015, the men and women of YPG (People's Protection Unit) and YPJ (Women
Protection Unit) courageously take up the Syrian town of Ayn al-Arab, which borders
Turkey. The latter is in ruins as the fighting raged there. Kobanî then falls gently
through capita · e · s and groups of volunteers who come to help rebuild the city. On 20
July to Suruç, near the Turkish border, a suicide bomber commissioned by Daech made 32
victims and a hundred wounded · e · s at a youth group from left and extreme left who were
preparing to leave for the reconstruction of Ayn al-Arab. Later in the day, it's a car
bomb which killed 2 in the ranks of YPG. Of the 32 victims of Suruç include two anarchist
comrades killed Alper Deniz Erol Sapan and Erwin. We will not forget the names of our
comrades!
mobilization and resistance
Throughout Europe, demonstrations in support of Kurdish people then burst following the
attack. Erdogan, President Turk, is accused of a "laisser faire" with Daech by its
rejection of the PKK and other Kurdish revolutionary organization, he also regards as
terrorist as well as the Islamic State .
In Turkey, the revolutionaries are mobilizing and supporting demonstrations quickly turned
into a riot when the Turkish Police attack protesters · e · s sudden flash-ball, tear gas
and water truck. The resistant · e · s organize and stand barricades in several cities,
including Istanbul. Then follows a bloody crackdown by anti-terrorist forces of the
government: the hundreds of arrests militant · e · s Left (2500 revolutionaries are held ·
e · s in prison), protester killings · e · s to · Civil · e s: 3 young Kurdish men 20 and
22 years were killed by anti-terrorist police, a young 14 year old girl and her mother are
attacked by a Turkish sniper while they slept on the roof of a building, the mother did
not survive. These examples are unfortunately not isolated cases. Faced with these
barbaric acts, the militant · e · s do not allow themselves to do, and because they equip
many petrol bombs, automatic weapons and rocket launchers and they they use to defend
themselves and Turks attack police stations.
the end of a truce
A few days before the attack in Suruç, the truce between Turkey, the PKK and its other
sister organizations ends, after many provocations on the part of the Turkish military
troops stationed at the border of Kurdistan. The Turkish government respected less and
less peace agreements that had been signed in 2013 by Abdullah Öcalan, imprisoned leader
of the PKK, which then broke a fight that began in 1984 and made 45 000 dead.
As fighting resumed, two days after the bombing of Suruç, two Turkish police officers who
collaborated with Daech are executed with a bullet in the head by the armed wing of the
PKK. Parallel to support demonstrations and clashes with the Turkish police, the army
intensified its bombing of the revolutionaries of Kurdistan-Iraqi, who do not find support
from the autonomous Kurdish regional government in the hands of the KDP, right-wing party
in the region Iraq, leaving the Turkish army to attack and bomb the Kurdish villages and
their civilian · e · s favorable to the PKK. It's a true asymmetric conflict taking place
between the army and the Kurds. Revolutionaries must cope with tanks, helicopters and
combat drones that are progressing towards the PKK command center in Iraqi Kurdistan. But
the courageous resistance is felt everywhere: from improvised explosive devices (IED)
destroy armored vehicles, killing policemen and soldiers in Turkish military convoy passes.
The fighting is also raging on Turkish soil, where Kurds are the majority (North
Kurdistan). Again, the army kills civil · e · s and activists, and towns and villages
insurgents are fully occupied by tanks, while some of them reported self-management. The
response of the revolutionary here is not silent: the military front, stones, Molotov
cocktails and Kalashnikov shots are the Kurds defenses besieged · e · s. Everywhere in
Turkey, explosives kill military police and Turks; This is the case on September 2 when
IED explodes in Istanbul, killing 8 soldiers.
volunteer abroad · è · s for ypg
While the United States and Europe generally blind eye to the situation of Kurds (Turkey
being one of the last ally of the West in the Middle East, they will do anything to
preserve their goodwill), some courageu · x · is · no · s · s European and American · e ·
s swell the ranks of YPG Daech to fight and support the revolution taking place in Rojava.
According to the People's Protection Units, it would be 500 volunteers who have joined the
fight against Daech. These numbers probably do not take account of the International
Brigade composed of militant Liberation · e · s Anarchists and Communists abroad · e · s.
support the kurds!
The attack in Suruç of July 20, in addition to deprive us of comrades of struggle, has
significantly increased the escalation of violence and repression of the Turkish military
and police against demonstrators · e · s and resistant · e · s Kurds , which should be
charged to the fascist government of Erdogan.
Today, more than ever, reaffirm our support for the revolutionary process Rojava, Kurds
oppressed · e · s victims of the imperialist state and Turkish police.
Support the total YPG and YPJ, and the PKK and its guerrilla struggle courageously!
Damien, group Montpellier
Sources:
o http://www.secoursrouge.org/
o http://www.rojbas.org/
o http://alternativelibertaire45.org
o http://www.rtl.fr
Photo sources:
o Facebook Pages "International Freedom Battalion" and "Let's be Wild"
http://www.c-g-a.org/motion/situation-kurde-ete-2015-la-revolution-vaincra-face-daech-et-letat-turc
