These five civilian supporters were murdered on 8th Jan by Turkish drones on the march of 10’s of thousands to the Tishreen Dam to block the entry of the Turkish jihadi mercenary gangs into what’s left of Rojava
These 5 people on the civil demonstration were murdered by Turkish drone fire. The demonstration and convoy continued and occupies the Dam which the mercenaries, including many ex ISIS and Al Qaeda, must continue to destroy, massacre and loot. Many more people were injured.
THE SPIRIT OF RESISTANCE AT THE TISHREEN DAM WILL BE THE SPIRIT OF THE INTERNATIONALIST COMMUNITY!
➡️ Today thousands of cars from all North-East Syria gathered in a convoy to reach the Tishreen Dam and make a human shield action in support of the SDF.
💥 The convoy, composed by families, journalists, institutions, civilians and youth was deliberately attacked by the fascist Turkish State through genocidal airstrikes, causing deaths and injuries.
Turkey attacked the civilian demonstration.
Today, 8th of January, thousands of people from all over the region went to the Tishrin water dam to stand side by side with the SDF. Despite Turkey attacking civilians, the resistance remain unbroken.
The Autonomous Administration called on international institutions and forces to stop the attacks by the Turkish state. At the same time, it called on the population to take action to protect the dam and support the SDF fighters fighting against it.
With the fall of the Assad Regime, Turkiye let loose its jihadi SNA hordes on Shebha/Tal Rifaat ,f orcing 100,000 refugees to flee again, crucified Manbij and area, and advanced on towards the anti ISIS symbol of Kobani, just across the Euphrates River.
Rojava defiant as artillery, drones strike Kobani -Turkish occupation large-scale attack on Tishreen Dam – FAILED
Convoys transporting concrete fortifications intended for the establishment of a US base arrived today (Thursday) in the northern Syrian citry of Kobani, a Kurdish militia stronghold located near the Turkish border. . Kobani has become a symbol of Kurdish resistance against the terrorist organization ISIS.
The Turkish dictator Erdogan financed, protected and trained the Al Qaeda HTS in Idlib and knew for months ahead of the planned breakout which ended up toppling the 50 year old Assad Regime.
Despite economic mayhem at home Turkey spent 2023 boosting HTS in Idlib, and especially arming the SNA, its large network of Islamic terrorist mercenary militias.
The SNA ‘head choppers’ are multiple militia left overs financed by Turkey, and originally by Arab states and the US in the Syrian civil war. These militias include ex Al Qaeda, ISIS and worse and have been settled in the Kurdish and multi ethnic homelands invaded, with western silence, and ethnically cleansed by Turkey in Afrin, Sabha, Serekineye strip, and Al Bab..
The SNA militias receive minimum wages from Turkiye and survive by looting, extortion, kidnappings and western aid.
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The resistance against the Turkey’s backed mercenaries is continuing. A YPG veteran Karim Franceschi stated: «The deployment of SDF elite units has shifted the momentum. Turkey’s backed SNA forces are in full retreat. Heavy casualties, key axes collapsing. The liberation of Manbij is now imminent.».
Turkiye has worked to train, arm and coordinate them and used them as attack dogs against the hated Rojava Revolution with its communal, horizontal organisation and women’s emancipation SNA ideology, the exact opposite of SNA ideology.
In December 2024, as the Assad regime finally fell apart. Erdogan took the opportunity to let loose his SNA mercenary terrorists to loot and destroy the Shebha enclave, which was just a giant isolated internal refugee camp of Kurdish families expelled from their homes and lands by the Turkish invasion of Afrin in 2019.
A column of Rojava SDF defenders broke through Turkish controlled territory and rescued over 100,000 people from Shehba in convoys, attacked day and night on the way and welcomed into the AANES revolution, though thousands more were, murdered, abducted or enslaved.
On 7th December, the same day that the Assad family fled Syria after 54 years in power, pro-Turkish puppets heavily attacked Manbij, symbol of the Rojava Revolution which was saved for the 3rd time from the rampaging Turkish backed SNA jihadis..
The revolutionary population of the 100k strong multicultural town were congratulated on their ongoing heroic resistance on three fronts, led by Manbij Council Defense Forces and the SDF
With the fall of the Assad Regime, Turkiye let loose its jihadi SNA hordes on Shebha/Tal Rifaat , crucified Manbij and area, and advanced on towards the anti ISIS symbol of Kobani, just across the Euphrates River. .
Street executions a SNA/ISIS/AlQaeda take Manbij city.
With Turkish/NATO drone and heavy artillery support the SNA militias began conducting heavy attacks against SDF positions near Tishreen Dam, but met strong resistance by the SDF, especially the women’s YPJ brigade and have so far failed to cross to nearby Kobani despite repeated ongoing battles and damage to the dam itself.
Meanwhile in Kobani defenders arrived from throughout Rojava following the general mobilisation call by the Democratic AANES administration, and the city again became a beehive of military and social preparation
The resistance against the Turkey’s backed mercenaries is continuing. A YPG veteran Karim Franceschi stated: “The deployment of SDF elite units has shifted the momentum. Turkey’s backed SNA forces are in full retreat. Heavy casualties, key axes collapsing. The liberation of Manbij is now imminent.”.
In defense of humanity: Internationalists in Italy honored Şehîd Ronahî Yekta (Arşîn Hisên), one of many revolutionaries murdered countering the terrorist attacks of the Turkey-backed mercenaries on Rojava. For over 20 days the fighters of the YPJ and QSD are resisting against the occupation of Turkish fascism at the Euphrates front.
➡️ To those who follow the news and just can’t sit still. To those who go to demonstrations but feel like they don’t contribute enough. To those who follow in the footsteps of Şehîd Lêgerîn Çiya, Şehîd Dilsoz Bihar, Şehîd Hêlîn Qereçox, Şehîd Andok Cotkar and many other Şehîds: COME TO ROJAVA!
➡️ Now is the time to experience the revolution on the ground and learn and fight together. Whether with a pen, a brush, a camera or a weapon in your hand – every one has a role to take.
**About 40 mercenaries in Turkey’s pay have surrendered their weapons to the SDF in the village of Kalkal near Manbij, Syria.
Serêkanîyê (Ras al Ain)
Meanwhile, dozens of families in Serêkanîyê (Ras al Ain) want to leave, but are facing extortionate exit fees from the mercenaries that they cannot afford.
Serêkanîyêis in the border buffer zone created by Turkiye in Erdogan’s 3rd invasion in 2019 where most people were exiled to ongoing internal refugee camps and the rest trapped with settled jihadi Turkish paid mercenaries
This week, we’re sharing a key in-depth conversation with Errico, a combatant member of Tekoşîna Anarşist, an internationalist anarchist formation in critical solidarity with the Rojava Revolution..
For this episode, Errico answers some questions we had about what’s been happening in Syria and concerns from within the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria. You can find ideas and updates from the TA formation on their blog, https://tekosinaanarsist.noblogs.org. Past interviews with TA can be found here.
Errico’s voice has been re-recorded by a comrade for anonymity. The transcript is already up in the show notes and at our website for easier reading, translation and sharing and you can find past interviews we’ve done with TA linked in the show notes. And there is an announce-only signal group that anyone can join with updates and analysis by anarchists in the region or paying attention which we’ll link in our shownotes. Just a headsup, the usernames of members of this group will be visible to the all other users there and it might be a good opportunity to set up your signal username and make your phone number unfindable for better anonymity prior to joining the signal group ( https://signal.group/#CjQKIN0TDK_nsHV4uXRtLIdaUOL2R6yv7uvRs8c3RUiXLr-EEhBPEntGCDqJQOD4pzU36i6O )
We simultaneously recorded an interview with Cedric and Khuzama, two libertarian communists and editors of and contributors to the blog Interstices-Fajawat.org about their insights into Syria. This interview will be coming out soon, so keep an eye on our feed.
TFSR: Would you please introduce yourself to the audience with any name, pronouns, location, and affiliation that you want to share?
TA: Yeah, so this is Errico here. I’m talking from the provisional press office of Tekoşîna Anarşist, based at the moment a few kilometers away from the front lines. So for this, the best pronouns I can use is they then, if needed, but yeah, maybe that’s it.
TFSR: Would you remind listeners about Tecoxina Anarchist and its relationship with the PYD and the Rojava revolution?
TA: Tekoşîna Anarşist is an anarchist organization that has been working for more than seven yearsnow in the northeast Syria. We are here in critical solidarity with the revolution in Rojava. We see how the values that this revolution is like promoting are extraordinarily close to what we see as anarchism, as libertarian socialism and therefore many anarchists from all around the world has been coming here, had been fighting and defending this revolution. Some of us, we saw the need of building a more stable project that can learn from this revolution in a more collective way to be able to not only learn these lessons, but also being able to translate it and share it with other anarchist organizations and comrades all around the world.
When we talk about our works here, we are a military structure that cooperates with the Syrian Democratic Forces. We are integrated inside the Syrian Democratic Forces and we are with them in the front lines fighting against the enemies that tried to destroy this revolution. Mostly we have been in the front lines against the Islamic State but since 2018 and the invasion of the Turkish army in Afrin, we have been also in the front lines against the Turkish army and its proxies. As a military structure, also, we want to promote a reflection of what does it mean for anarchists to be engaged in a military context because we know that anarchism often has been also connected with anti-militarist movements.And this is also part of our tradition, but here we see the necessity of being part of the defense of this revolution in a military sense. So we often say that we are not a military organization, but a militarized one, because the conditions on the ground had forced us to take up weapons to defend this revolution and even our life, especially in the front lines against the Islamic State. And this was something that got a lot of international attention and this is a bit like the part that has been more mediatic. But for us, most of our work is also to function as a political organization here. As I say, critical solidarity with Rojava and trying to bring practical aspects to the meaning of international solidarity because when we talk about international solidarity, we can see that the capacity to bring solidarity on the ground with other struggles is often limited and we wanted to reflect on how we can directly bring this solidarity.
And there was this sentence that we often like from a really interesting revolutionary group from Denmark that was saying that “solidarity is something you can hold in your hands.” And we try to put this in practice and not stay in the symbolic solidarity, but be here shoulder to shoulder working with our Kurdish and with our Arab Syrian comrades and doing the work that is necessary on the ground to keep developing and defending this revolution. This means a lot of things that maybe we can talk about and discuss further in this interview but this also means relations with other political groups, with our political structures. You were mentioning the PYD, that it’s true that PYD is maybe the political body of part of the revolutionary bodies that are here. PYD is a political party that was created in 2003 to represent the voices of like Kurdish people here in northern Syria. But on the ground, and I think it’s important to understand PYD is mostly all people that is trying to bring solutions and like develop whatever is needed for the society to function. So what does it mean on the ground? They have an office and when people have problems, when there are conflicts in the different things that happen in the daily life, people often go to this office and discuss with the friends to try to find solution. This includes a big range of things like from how new buildings that are being built are coordinated, to garbage collection, but especially it comes to political talks with different elements. So there is like a close relation between PYD and the autonomous municipalities of each area that they try to help each other to solve the social problems.
There’s a nice story, you know… In the town that I’m right now, we were buying groceries so often in the shop that we kind of became friends with the shop owner. And some months ago, this shop owner asked “how are you?” and he was telling us that now he was asked to be responsible for the PYD office and this was him inviting to their office. So we came over for tea and were talking a bit about the situation of the city and the problems that they were facing. So we have a friendly relation, but the PYD is mostly like a local social center, mostly they have their office that functions as a social center to talk with the neighbors and discuss the situations on the ground. So this is part of our work, this diplomacy of like being in contact with the situation that the people is living here facing the same challenges and difficulties and problems and try to find solutions together with them.
The heroic spirit displayed by our forces a week ago near Qara Qwzaq Bridge and the Tishreen Dam serves as the most compelling evidence of the triumph of the Kobani resistance
Yesterday, December 18th, the Turkish occupation launched a large-scale attack on the Tishreen Dam axis. Intense clashes erupted and lasted until the evening hours. Our forces resolutely confronted the attackers and successfully repelled their attacks. Additionally, various areas within Kobani came under attack from Turkish occupation UCAVs and heavy artillery.
Simultaneously, the Turkish army continues to mobilize forces in the Suruj area, while Turkish tanks and armored vehicles are deployed along the northern border of Kobani and the western side of the Qara Qwzaq Bridge.
The heroic spirit displayed by our forces a week ago near Qara Qwzaq Bridge and the Tishreen Dam serves as the most compelling evidence of the triumph of the Kobani resistance
Turkey rejected the ceasefire agreement between the SDF and SNA. The YPJ General Commander Rohilat Afrin confirmed that an attack on Kobane is imminent.
“The Turkish state is sending military forces to attack Kobanê. Everyone must take action for Kobanê. Just as we defeated ISIS in Kobanê, we will also defeat Turkey!”
We are following the situation closely. We must make preparations and act to stop Turkey. With the spirit of 2014 and our şehids we will defend Kobane!
The Turkish State and its jihadi mercenary proxies have prepared a large scale offensive to cross the Euphrates, and attack Kobanê.Turkey has also opened their wall with Kobane and massed troops and artillery on the border.
Kobanê now: tens of thousands of residents on the streets in protest against the attacks and threats of the Turkish occupation state and its mercenaries in the city of Kobanê (Syrian Kurdistan)
From Kobanê they plan to push into the rest of North East Syria. They did not stop at Afrin, Shehba or Minbic. They will not stop at Kobanê. The Turkish State wants it all.
Yesterday thousands of people in Kobanê protested against Turkey’s plans.
Türkiye ‘building up forces’ on Syrian border – WSJ
For days, there have been increasing reports that a large-scale attack on Kobane is imminent. Turkish media are openly announcing this. We see videos of SNA convoys, already camouflaged with mud, gathering on the west side of the Euphrates.
Kurdish officials are reportedly pleading with US President-elect Donald Trump to convince Ankara not to launch an invasion
Türkiye and its militia allies are reportedly building up their forces near the Syrian border in what is speculated to be preparation for a large-scale incursion into Kurdish-held territories, the Wall Street Journal reported on Monday, citing senior US officials.
In the last days the fascist Turkish state is intensifiying it’s attacks on Rojava and especially on Kobanê. Erdogans goal is not just to gain territory, but to destroy our visions of socialism, women’s liberation and the unity of the people.
This is why Kobane is a strategical target for him. We must remember that Kobane is the symbol of the Women’s Revolution, and according to this we have to strengthen our struggle.
Let’s resist with the self-sacrificing and powerful spirit of Şehîd Arîn Mîrkan until victory!
In the canton of Minbic, a fragile ceasefire is in place following intense fighting between SDF & the Turkish-backed SNA. In the morning, fierce fighting broke out again around the Tischrin Dam. Turkish drones are also said to have been used in the fighting. Local sources report protests against the Turkish occupation & its militias in the city.
In recent days, there have been increasing reports of executions & looting in the regions where the SNA has taken control. Fighters have also repeatedly appeared with the flag of the so-called Islamic State.
An ambulance from the Kobanê hospital (Syrian Kurdistan) on the Sarrin-Tishreen Dam road has been shelled by the Turks, killing the driver and a passenger, and seriously injuring a nurse and another person.
At the same time, the self-administration (DAANES) strengthened its position for negotiations & a democratization of the whole of Syria. The self-administration announced that it would hoist the new flag of the Syrian Republic above all its institutions.
Meanwhile, transitional government was formed in Damascus by HTS, which is to remain in office until March.
📢 A Democratic solution for Syria – Defend the Self-Administration: Action-Day, Saturday Dec. 14
If the democratic solution is to stand a chance in this historic phase, we must defend the self-administration in Northeast Syria, the revolution in Rojava and stop Turkey and its mercenaries.
That is why we are calling for a central day of action in solidarity with the autonomous administration and the peoples of Syria next Saturday, December 14.
There are many ways to defend the revolution! Protest against the institutions of the Turkish state and their Western partners. Inform yourself and get creative, protest and take to the streets!
As the country struggles to emerge from the darkness and brutality of the Assad regime many groups are vying for position in this new reality – and it is in that space that Islamic State in Iraq and Syria (ISIS) is trying to gather strength.
One of the most important figures in this region is General Abdi Mazloum, the commander-in-chief of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF).
He is warning the West that ISIS is already trying to exploit the turmoil.
General Mazloum says the clashes with Turkish-backed groups are making it more difficult to concentrate on stopping ISIS from regenerating.
SF Solidarity
“At the moment, joint operations against ISIS are halted. This is not a decision but rather a military reality, as the coalition is also preoccupied with the ongoing conflict. Therefore, I stress that if these attacks persist, joint operations will remain suspended,” he says.
He also warns that it’s possible that ISIS prisoners kept in detention camps and prisons could escape in the chaos.
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