SDF Women aim to Send ISIS back to Hell in Raqqa

Nisrin Ebdullah, of Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ).

Kobane The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) lmilitary operation against the Islamic State (ISIS) is advancing quickly towards Raqqa city. Several SDF militias are participating in the campaign, among them the Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ).

Nisrin Abdullah, the YPJ’s official spokeswoman, told ARA News in an exclusive interview that their priority is securing freedom for the people of Raqqa, in particular the city’s enslaved and tortured women.

“The Women’s Protection Units is one of the main factions participating in the anti-ISIS battle for Raqqa,” Abdullah told ARA News on Wednesday. “The YPJ have experience in combat and military operations. We will play an effective role in the campaign.”..

…“The YPJ have participated in most of the military campaigns in Rojava and northern Syria. Our women have joined the frontline and fought through intense battles,” Abdullah told ARA News. “The YPJ have always played a leading role, especially in the fight against ISIS and in the liberation movement.”

A fighter of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) preparing her machine gun during clashes with ISIS in northern Raqqa. Photo: ARA News

“We earlier fought for Manbij and participated in liberating of its people, especially its women, from suppression by ISIS terrorists. Later on, we handed the city over to its people and withdrew to our headquarters,” Abdullah continued.

The YPJ spokesperson told ARA News that capturing Raqqa will fatally wound ISIS. “[The city’s] liberation would break the extremist group’s will and eventually lead to its collapse. However, this won’t be an easy battle as ISIS has worked on fortifying the city. We expect the enemy to be highly prepared to fight for its main stronghold,” she said. She concluded saying: “We are freedom fighters, and we won’t stop until we’ve liberated our people from the terror groups……. ”Reporting by: Enwer Omar | Source: ARA News

Meet the woman who heads the army that intends to send ISIS to hell

by TOM COBURG

This woman is leading efforts to send ISIS to hell, but Turkey has other plans

The main assault on the Daesh (Isis/Isil) capital of Raqqa is now underway. And women are at the forefront of the battle.

The feminist commander

Using the code-name “Wrath of the Euphrates”, the group leading the offensive is the SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces). And Commander Rojda Felat (the woman pictured above) is one of those leading the charge.

Daesh fighters believe that if they die at the hands of a woman, they won’t go to heaven. So with Felat and other women on the frontlines in the battle for Raqqa, they’d better prepare for hell.

In June, Felat made it clear what her intentions as head of the SDF operation were:

Wherever there is an attack against humanity we, as the Syrian Democratic Forces, will be there. Wherever there is a suppressed woman, that is a battleground for us… People are joining the SDF and YPJ [Women’s Defence Units] by the droves. Not only for the [Yazidi] women of Shengal (Sinjar), but wherever a woman is being suppressed, wherever a man is threatening a woman, our forces will struggle against this. Our struggle for the liberation of our people will become a beacon for all resisting peoples.

Turkey and the US at odds over the SDF’s role in fighting Daesh

The SDF is led by the gender-egalitarian, secular and largely-Kurdish YPG [People’s Protection Units] and YPJ, which are the defence militias of the multicultural and directly democratic cantons of Rojava in northern Syria. Kurds currently make up around 70% of the SDF forces in the Raqqa assault, but Arabs could make up to 40% when other anti-Daesh groups join the battle. Kurdish and Arab SDF fighters transfer civilians to safe areas

Turkey insists that the attack on Raqqa should exclude all Kurdish forces. It wants only the Arab and Turkmen sections of the SDF to take Raqqa. But the US has reportedly made it clear that the Kurds will remain a part of the main ground force in the offensive.

In Turkey, there is an the ongoing purge of the press, academics, the judiciary, and political opponents. After the recent arrests of opposition politicians from the left-wing Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), there were a number of criticisms from Europe. In a televised speech on 6 November, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan said he didn’t care whether Europe regarded him as a dictator or not.

Turkey at war with anti-Daesh forces in Syria

The campaign to liberate Raqqa began in May 2016, when the SDF liberated towns and villages north of the city. But in August, Turkey launched an invasion of towns in north-western Syria which the SDF had also liberated. The assault had been many months in the making.

Turkish tanks rolled into Syria on 24 August, diverting the SDF away from fighting Daesh. And it did not take long before there were allegations from locals, in a town near the liberated city of Manbij, that the Turkish army had carried out chemical weapon attacks.

In September, Turkey launched multiple attacks on towns and villages in Syria liberated by the SDF. Its ultimate aim was to stop the SDF from connecting two of its cantons through the city of al-Bab in northern Syria. Then, in October, it continued to widen its offensive against the Kurdish-led forces, targeting the YPG headquarters near Tel Abyad.

Once the SDF and its allies succeed in liberating Raqqa from Daesh, Turkey will no doubt attempt to ensure the Kurdish-led forces are sidelined. And the US will want to appease its NATO allies in Turkey. But the more Americans and others in the West see how effective the SDF is, and how repressive the Turkish state is, there will be increasing pressure on Western governments to reconsider their alliances in the Middle East. Especially if they truly want to defeat Daesh.

– Read The Canary‘s previous articles on Turkey, Kurdistan (and Rojava).

Pro-jihadist Turkey can’t conduct airstrikes against Kurds in Syria anymore

info from AL-BAB (Kurdish daily News)

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WINDOWS DESTROYED OF A LACAIXA BRANCH IN SOLIDARITY WITH THE FIGHT OF THE KURDISH PEOPLE

from La Rebelión de las Palabras

On the night of November 5, 2016, the windows of a LaCaixa bank branch in the Horta neighborhood of Barcelona were broken in solidarity with the struggle being carried out by the Kurdish population in Iran, Iraq, but especially in Rojava and in Bakur (within Turkish territory), and against the brutal repression that both pro-Kurdish political organizations and the HDP are suffering, such as those who face the terror of Daesh and Turkish fascism.

…………. ” And why attack a branch of LaCaixa? In addition to the fact that banks are one of the pillars of capitalism, LaCaixa together with BBVA, Banco Popular and Santander are an essential part of the international relations between the Spanish State (remember that it signed with pleasure the European agreement with Turkey on the “crisis” Of refugees and their condemnation of a life of misery) and the Turkish State, as well as the growing consolidation of capitalist policies in economic, real estate and military matters.”

”The Spanish state, only in 2014 gained 243.673 million euros of the sale of arms to Turkey. LaCaixa continues to fund companies such as Maxam, a weapon manufacturer that has gone to Syria, interestingly through its Turkish subsidiary, which makes it more than suspected of being armed to the groups of the FSAs backed by Turkey, and since Turkey is Financing the Daesh, it would not be surprising if some of the material financed by LaCaixa ends up in the hands of the Islamic State.”

: The Yazidi Womens Brigade join the SDF as they close in on Raqqa

”We can not remain impassive in the face of the genocide committed by Erdogan and his fascist state against the Kurdish people.”

”Let’s attack those who are profiting and are financing this genocide.

If Turkey is guilty of the deaths of thousands of Kurdish civilians and guerrillas, so are all those states, such as Spanish, and all the companies that deal with it”. from La Rebelión de las Palabras

original in Español

Sabotaje en Barcelona: Destrozados los cristales de una sucursal de LaCaixa en solidaridad con la lucha del pueblo kurdo.

Posted on 2016/11/09 by La Rebelión de las Palabras

Recibo en el correo electrónico el siguiente comunicado reivindicando una acción de sabotaje a una sucursal bancaria de la entidad LaCaixa, a la que le fueron destrozados los cristales por aprovecharse de la masacre que el gobierno turco junto con la escoria del Daesh están perpetrando contra la población kurda, en un intento por sofocar la voluntad decidida de ese pueblo por rebelarse contra su miseria e ir a por la revolución y la victoria.

DESTROZADOS LOS CRISTALES DE UNA SUCURSAL DE LACAIXA EN SOLIDARIDAD CON LA LUCHA DEL PUEBLO KURDO

La noche del 5 de Noviembre de 2016 se destrozaron a mazazos los cristales de una sucursal bancaria de LaCaixa en el barrio de Horta de Barcelona, en solidaridad con la lucha que está llevando a cabo la población kurda, en Irán, Iraq, pero especialmente en Rojava y en Bakur (dentro del territorio turco), y contra la brutal represión que están sufriendo tanto organizaciones políticas pro-kurdas como el HDP, como quienes se enfrentan al terror del Daesh y del fascismo turco.

………….”¿Y por qué atacar una sucursal de LaCaixa? Además de que los bancos son unos de los puntales del capitalismo, LaCaixa junto a BBVA, Banco Popular y Santander son una parte esencial de las relaciones internacionales entre el Estado español (recordemos que firmó con gusto el acuerdo Europeo con Turquía sobre la “crisis” de refugiados y su condena a una vida de miseria) y el Estado turco, así como de la creciente consolidación de las políticas capitalistas en materia económica, inmobiliaria y militar.

El Estado español, solamente en 2014 ingresó 243.673 millones de euros de la venta de armas a Turquía. LaCaixa sigue financiando empresas como Maxam, fabricante de armamento que se ha destinado a Siria, curiosamente a través de su filial turca, lo cual la hace más que sospechosa de estar armando a los grupos de las FSA respaldados por Turquía, y dado que Turquía está financiando al Daesh, no sería de extrañar que parte de ese material financiado por LaCaixa acabe en las manos del Estado Islámico.

Turkey has a history of pogroms, massacres and attempted genocide of Kurdish people which Erdogan has revived to boost his bid for absolute power amid ultra nationalist hysteria in the controlled media..

No podemos quedarnos impasibles frente al genocidio que está cometiendo Erdogan y su Estado fascista contra el pueblo Kurdo.

Ataquemos a quienes se están lucrando y están financiando este genocidio.

Si Turquía es culpable de la muerte de miles de civiles y guerrilleras kurdas, lo son también todos aquellos Estados, como el español, y todas las empresas que tratan con ella.

Biji berxwedana Rojava! ..”

Syrian-Kurdish women carry the coffin of a female fighter in Syria’s northeastern city of Qamishli on July 21, 2016 during the funeral of sixteen fighters killed battling the Islamic State (IS) group in Manbij.
Thousands of IS soldiers were reported killed in the Manbij battles along with about 150 SDF volunteers, including six from the International Brigade.(William Savage, from the US was killed rescuing civilians).

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