In 2019 we defeated #ISIS caliphate:

➡️ Thousand of them surrendered to the #SDF
➡️ Many were citizens of countries all over the world

We paid for the defeat of ISIS with the lives of 11,000 martyrs in the knowledge that we did not just protect #Syria but the whole of humanity.

📃 The #SDF released a statement for todays #WorldKobaneDay:

📢 " The defense of Kobane was the defense of humanity and the women’s revolution that started in North and Eastern Syria. It inspired women all over the world, changed the reality of many of them, and became one of the eternal values in the region and the world."

🔗 Read the full statement here:
https://sdf-press.com/en/2022/11/our-fighters-will-for-life-and-resistance-was-stronger-than-all-weapons-plots-and-the-regional-support-of-isis/

📃 Statement of internationalist volunteers of #YPJ and #YPG on the occasion of todays #WorldKobaneDay:

📢 "The world must repeat the solidarity in the current attacks, no matter if coming from the jihadists and mercenaries, or the Turkish #NATO army with its chemical weapons."


🔗 Read the full statement here:
https://www.hawarnews.com/en/mobile/?title=ypg-and-ypj-internationalist-the-ideas-of-resistance-and-freedom-have-taken-root-in-rojava&page=haber&ID=33517

👉 Find out more about the work of internationalist fighters within YPJ by following @YPJ_volunteers on twitter.

🚨 Today, one day after #WorldKobaneDay, #Turkey attacked #Kobane with heavy weapons and drones.

➡️ The villages Çarqelê, Xerabîsan, Zormexar, Ziyare and Goran were targeted.

➡️ One soldier of the Syrian Arab Army is reported to be wounded.

Commander of the #TilTemir Military Council, Newroz Rojhilat:

➡️ #Turkey & its jihadist allies are intensifying their presence & are stationing heavy weapons

➡️ Jihadists ground movements are supported by Turkish drones

📢 Our forces are prepared to defend the people & region

Have you read the #YPJ’s mission statement?

➡️ Essential principles
➡️ Organizational structure
➡️ General aims in the struggle for a free society

👉 Download the PDF on our homepage:

https://ypj-info.org/wp-content/uploads/YPJs-Mission-Statement-InDesign-Layout-final-for-homepage.pdf

📃 The #SDF relesed a statement on the Turkish drone strike that killed one of their members

➡️ On 06/11/22, #Turkey attacked a vehicle in the city of #Qamishlo

➡️ SDF fighter Mîtan Şoreş (Kamal Muhammad Ali Dodo) who fought many battles against #ISIS was killed

➡️ 2 other civilians were wounded

🌹 "Our comrade Mitan joined our forces early and participated in most of the campaigns against terrorist organizations in the northern and eastern regions of Syria. He was a robust and courageous fighter who has a comradeship soul, and he was beloved by all his fellow fighters, being their brother and true comrade."

🔗 Read the full statement here:
https://sdf-press.com/en/2022/11/we-will-retaliate-for-the-martyrdom-of-our-comrade-mitan-by-raising-the-resistance-banner-higher/

🗞️ Our #YPJ spokesperson, Ruksen Mihamed, gave an interview to the japanese newspaper "#Tokyo Shimbun"

📢 "I want to change the idea that women cannot participate in combat. Women can even become commanders."

🔗 Full article in #Japanese:
https://www.tokyo-np.co.jp/article/212747

🪧Today tens of thousands held a demonstration in #Qamishlo

➡️ The people of NE-#Syria are condemning #Turkey's usage of chemical weapons in Southern #Kurdistan

➡️ Turkey also used #WhitePhosphorus against civilians in #Rojava when invading & occupying #Serekaniye in 2019

📢 “When we analyze the activities of #ISIS in NE-#Syria it is clear that without #Turkey’s support, they would likely not be able to survive in any organized form.”

📃 Eylem Ataş, international #YPJ fighter, evaluates the current situation in #Rojava in an in-depth article.

🔗 Read the full text on our homepage:
https://ypj-info.org/featured-articles/kobane-is-the-only-proof-that-we-can-build-a-free-world/

👉 We provide pictures & first hand information to journalists

📃 Read Bruno Struys' full article on the #ISIS threat in al-#Hol camp:

📢 Hoe IS-vrouwen kamp Al Hol terroriseren: ‘Ze bestraffen iedere vrouw die hun bevelen niet opvolgt’
(7/10/22, DeMorgen)

🔗 Full article in Dutch language on our homepage:
https://ypj-info.org/media-coverage/hoe-is-vrouwen-kamp-al-hol-terroriseren-ze-bestraffen-iedere-vrouw-die-hun-bevelen-niet-opvolgt/

Mazlum Abdi, #SDF General Command, on the #Istanbul attack:

📢 "We affirm that our forces have nothing to do with the Istanbul bombing, & we reject the allegations accusing our forces of that."

👉 He expresses sincere condolences to the families of the killed & injured.

#istiklal

📃 #YPG on #Istanbul attack:

📢 "We categorically deny any link to (...) the terrorist attack."

➡️ YPG affirms its commitment to the values of the people & the revolution & promise to always struggle against #terrorism

🔗 Full statement:
https://sdf-press.com/en/2022/11/statement-by-the-ypg-regarding-the-false-turkish-accusations/

Italian director who dedicated award to NE Syria: "Jin, Jiyan, Azadi" is connected to Öcalan

“It is a great contradiction not to realize that the slogan "Jin, Jiyan, Azadi" (Woman, Life, Freedom) is connected to Abdullah Öcalan. Everyone who advocates a free life should see what is happening in Imrali and in the mountains of Kurdistan.”

Italian director Benedetta Argentieri received the Phoenix Award at the 32nd Cologne Film Festival for her documentary "The Matchmaker". She dedicated the award to the “brave people of North and East Syria.”

Who are the Women's Protection Units of NE-#Syria?

As #YPJ:

➡️ We defend society, women & democratic values

➡️ We exercise the people’s right of legitimate self-defense

➡️ We act within the framework of the Democratic Nation paradigm, based on #ecology & women's liberation



📃 Read more about the Women's Protection Units:

🔗 https://ypj-info.org/about-us

📢 "When we were going to the funeral, we were targeted by a Turkish state drone. Luckily nobody was martyred in this car. I was the most severely injured."

- #YPJ fighter Ronahî, survivor of a Turkish drone strike

👉 You can now find the full text of the interview on our homepage:

🔗 https://ypj-info.org/articles/surviving-a-turkish-drone-attacktestimony-of-ypj-fighter-ronahi-xabat/

🎥 On this #25November, we as #YPJ are sending greetings to the women of the world.

🌍 The pledge we made is to guard women against all forms of violence, not just here in #Rojava/NE-#Syria or the #MiddleEast, but in the whole world.

#JinJiyanAzadi
#StopViolenceAgainstWomen