#Asia Ramazan Antar

[valkyries-things]

ASIA RAMAZAN ANTAR // SOLDIER

“She led an all-female battalion against ISIS in Syria called the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) and became a symbol of the feminist struggle in the Rojava conflict and in the fight against ISIS, by international media. On August 30, 2016, three ISIS suicide bombers drove cars filled with explosives towards the Kurdish front lines. Antar and other YPJ fighters destroyed two of these cars but the third detonated close to Antar, killing her.”

[babiesarelazy]

Asia Ramazan Antar (1997–2016) also known as Viyan Antar, was a Kurdish Women's Protection Units (YPJ) fighter who has become a symbol of the feminist struggle in the Rojava conflict and in the fight against ISIS by international media.

[babylon-crashing]

Asia Ramazan Antar (1997–2016) a Kurdish Women's Protection Units (YPJ) soldier killed during the liberation of Manbij against the Islamic State.

[madeleineengland]

LET'S SUPPORT KURDISH FIGHTERS IN SYRIA AND THEIR MEMORY

This is Asia Ramazan Antar. She was killed near the Turkish border on 30 August 2016. She was fighting ISIS. She took part in five battles before she was killed, like other comrades. She was just 19 years old.

Just like Asia, hundreds of other Kurdish fighters - females and males - have been killed fighting ISIS. Most of them were young, in their late teens and early 20s, they were a symbol of revolution... but now the world is forgetting them.

These people have sacrificed their life in these years for guaranteing freedom. Not just for their land but for all of us. They were alone but still they fought against the terrorism with bravery, meanwhile the institutions just watched in silence.

Kurdish fighters made personal sacrifices for the collective good. They just wanted to create a better place, and they did. They created a peaceful, laic and feminist community.

And now we are dishonoring their memory. We are dishonoring Asia's memory and her comrades.

Because now kurdish people are useless. ISIS is defeated, thanks to them, and Turkish forces are invading northern Syria. At least 24 people have been killed – including 16 Kurdish fighters and eight civilians. *edit: more of 300 kurdish are dead. 12 oct, 2019*

And we are just watching. Donald Trump has allowed this dramatic situation by pulling back US troops from the area. Basically he abandoned these people against turkish military offensive, and they can't resist for long. They need help.

The governments of Germany, Belgium, France, Poland, UK and Estonia have called upon Turkey to cease unilateral military action in north Syria, but this isn't enough because Erdogan wants to continue this invasion.

In this days it's reported that more than 64,000 people fled their homes in northeast Syria. If the offensive continues it's possible a total of 300,000 people could be displaced to already overstretched camps and towns still recovering from the fight against ISIS. And most of Europe doesn't want immigrants.

This is unacceptable. They are risking a genocide.

Please spread the word. Don't forget kurdish people and their memory. They can't be abandoned in that misery.

[furiousflowerfry]

Asia Ramazan Antar, 1997-2016

[bhaskarhindinews]

Woman indian soldier on duty in deserts of rajasthan, fact check

Fake News: क्या रेगिस्तान में पहरा देने वाली महिला भारतीय सैनिक है ?

सोशल मीडिया पर इन दिनों एक महिला सैनिक की फोटो काफी वायरल हो रही है। वायरल तस्वीर के साथ दावा किया जा रहा है कि वह भारतीय सैनिक है और राजस्थान के तपते रेगिस्तान में पहरा दे रही है। फेसबुक और ट्विटर पर इस महिला की फोटो को काफी शेयर किया जा रहा है। फेसबुक पर इसे रामप्रकाश सैनी ने 'We Support Narendra Modi' ग्रुप में पोस्ट किया है। उनके पोस्ट पर कैप्शन है, 'राजस्थान के 50 डिग्री तपते रेगिस्तान में पहरा देती बॉर्डर पर भारतीय महिला जवान जय हिंद जय हो नारी शक्ति।' रामप्रकाश के पोस्ट पर 3 हजार लोगों ने लाइक और 300 से ज्यादा लोगों ने कमेंट किया है।

आगे पढ़ने के लिए यहां क्लिक करें - https://www.bhaskarhindi.com/news/woman-indian-soldier-on-duty-in-deserts-of-rajasthan-fact-check-fake-news-69312

[cds-arts]

The Kurdish Women’s Protection Units // trailblazers

Nineteen.  That’s how old Asia Ramazan Antar was when she was killed on the front lines of the fight against ISIS in Northern Syria.  To the Western World, her looks made her the poster child of Kurdish female resistance.  To her sisters-in-arms, she was one of many.  She was a member of the Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), an elite military group consisting entirely of women formed in 2012 to protect Kurdish regions under attack by ISIS.  As of late 2016, at least 20,000 women, not just Kurds but Syrians and even some Westerners, had joined the YPJ in their fight.  When many abandoned their cities as ISIS forces grew close, these women stood their ground to defend their homelands.  It was a group of Kurdish women who held Mosul against ISIS in 2016, fighting back not just with firearms but with singing, a practice banned by the Islamic State.  ISIS militants supposedly believe that if they are killed by a woman in combat, they will not go to heaven.  Considering the absolutely vicious atrocities that ISIS has committed and continues to commit against women – especially of the Kurdish ethnic minority – there is no group more fitting to take them down.

[theheartofthegryffindorwolf]

Name our goddamn women. Our women who fight for their countries and their religions. Our women who educate children. Our women who strive for success. Our women who protect those who cannot protect themselves. Our women who use their privilege to rebuild lives. Our women who raise awareness for global and personal issues. Our women who achieve great scientific breakthroughs. They are authors, dancers, scientists, beauticians, engineers, accountants, astronauts, police officers, actors, leaders, activists, musicians, soldiers, they are anything and everything they could want to be. But our women have names. Don't just stick them with the label of a race or religion, or some shallow celebrity comparison, or whatever words you use to cheapen their achievements. NAME THEM.

[disappointingsince2001]

Let's talk about our forgotten women.

Let’s start with the night witches. They were an all-female pilot squadron of Russia in the war. They got given the shittiest planes that were incredibly noisy, had no parachutes, and yet were still terrifying so much so that it was the Germans who gave them the nicknames ‘the night witches’. Female Russian bombers fucking killing it. Literally. Have we ever heard about these pioneers of strength? How about Mary Seacole? Heard of her? She was a black Jamaican woman born before Florence Nightingale, who set up a 'British hotel’ behind the lines during the Crimean war to treat sick and injured soldiers. Independent black charitable woman, swept under the shitty rug of white history. Ada Lovelace. This woman wrote the very first algorithm and created the worlds very first fucking computer program. (Responsible for our life's meaning really) Has she ever been mentioned before? Another example of men’s historical self-proclaimed ownership over ideas. Ever hear of Virginia Hall? She was an American allied spy with a prosthetic leg in France who escaped ON FOOT over THE PYRENEES MOUNTAINS to Spain and when she got there, she asked to be sent BACK! She fucked up nazi shipments and supplies before the allies showed up and have we ever heard her name in the classroom? Sophie Scholl - metaphorically punched a Nazi while living in Nazi Germany. Her, her brother, and their friend handed out thousands of flyers denouncing the nazis and were tried and executed. Her last words: "What does my death matter, if through us thousands of people are awakened and stirred to action?" Fucking. Queen. How about someone a little more modern. Asia Ramazan Antar. She died at the age of 19 in September 2016 (fucking 2016) and was a Kurdish soldier against ISIS leading a completely female group of warriors. She died stopping SUICIDE CAR BOMBS IN SYRIA. Her and her soldiers blew up two of them, but the last one blew up too close to her an she died. And you know what western media did? Jack shit. They only knew her as the 'Kurdish Angelina Jolie' and they really don't care she died fighting for her rights as a Muslim woman. Tell me you're idol is Taylor Swift. I fucking dare you.

[corallorosso]

Ti manderò un bacio con il vento e so che lo sentirai, ti volterai senza vedermi ma io sarò li. (Pablo Neruda) Asia Ramazan Antar( morta a 20 anni) è stata il simbolo della resistenza curda contro l'Isis, celebrata quando i curdi combattevano per noi, dimenticata quando hanno iniziato a combattere solo per loro stessi. Resistenza

[noticeablygeese]

I was ruminating and pondering today and I remembered the YPJ fighter Asia Ramazan Antar and I worked myself up thinking about the media’s treatment of her because what the fuck are you doing calling a courageous YPJ soldier “Kurdish Angelina Jolie” kill yourself.KILL YOURSELF!!!!!! I hate the capitalist erosion and sensationalism of all things good and pure and the fact that they want the public to be so fucking brain dead that we can only appreciate a Kurdish liberation fighter when she’s pretty I hate capitalismFUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCK YOU

[mucillo]

In ricordo di Asia Ramazan Antar,

donna curda caduta sul campo con onore, a diciannove anni, per difendere il Rojava dall’Isis.

"Io vado, madre"

Io vado, madre.

Se non torno,

sarò fiore di questa montagna,

frammento di terra per un mondo

più grande di questo.

Io vado, madre.

Se non torno,

il corpo esploderà là dove si tortura

e lo spirito flagellerà,

come l’uragano,

tutte le porte.

Io vado… madre…

Se non torno,

la mia anima sarà parola…

per tutti i poeti.

Abdulla Goran, poeta curdo.

[lestellenelsacco]

Who fights for our world, for peace, for love and who saves who cannot save themselves, needs more recognition and respect. Whether this person is a man or a woman, a girl or a boy. And if a girl of 20 years old lost her life to do all this, a girl that surely had different dreams and aspirations, then this girl doesn’t deserve to be remembered as the “Angelina Jolie” of Kurdistan. She deserves to be remembered as Asia Ramazan Antar. Many of us didn’t know you, but we know your noble heart. Thank you. 

[goldiespoesie]

Asia Ramazan Antar

[imfemalewarrior]

I hear what you are saying, but I think in certain cases the author of the article could have done better with the headline.

Like when Corey Cogdell-Unrein won a medal for her Olympic sharpshooting, the Chicago Tribune called her "wife of a bears lineman." Is she a household name? No, I had to Google her up, but they could have done something like "Chicago Woman wins bronze in Rio Olympics" or something.

Same with Asia Ramazan Antar, a Kurdish woman who died in combat against ISIS. In the articles describing her death she was referred to as "Kurdish Angelina Jolie" because she was beautiful. Again, not a household name, but they could have called her "Kurdish Joan of Arc" for her life in combat instead of referencing her looks only, something she did not like happening to her when she was alive.

Anyway these are my thoughts on this matter; while I know journalists can't always use names for people that are not well known public figures, I think there are cases where the headline could be written better.

-FemaleWarrior, She/They

Things about journalism that tumblr never seems to grasp

Headlines have to be as streamline as possible. Aka, they can’t include names unless the article is about a well-known public figure.

Those “water is wet” articles do more then explain what you already know, they’re providing evidence and sources that support/explain what you already know.

Oh my god, there’s information after the headline.

[ritchiepage2001newaccount]

#BirtherInChief #CorpMedia #Idiocracy #Oligarchs #MegaBanks vs #Union #Occupy #NoDAPL #BLM #SDF #DACA #MeToo #Humanity

Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ): The Fight to Protect Democratic Confederalism [UPDATES]

http://uchicagogate.com/articles/2017/2/28/kurdish-womens-protection-units-ypj-the-fight-to-protect-democratic-confederalism/

In September, Western media outlets ran stories with headlines like “Asia Ramazan Antar—the Kurdish Angelina Jolie—‘Killed While Fighting ISIS.’” The articles featured photos of Antar and described her heroic death protecting the town of al-Yashli from Daesh (the so-called Islamic State or ISIS) car bombs. Antar was a member of the Kurdish Women’s Protection Units (YPJ). This group is part of the armed wing of the Democratic Union Party (PYD), which has governed the area of Rojava in northern Syria since the Rojava Revolution in 2012...

UPDATE: Kurdish troops fight for freedom — and women's equality — on battlegrounds across Middle East

https://www.pri.org/stories/2018-03-19/kurdish-troops-fight-freedom-and-womens-equality-battlegrounds-across-middle-east

UPDATE: Portraits of the Kurdish Struggle

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/08/kurdish-freedom-struggle-joey-lawrence-portraits

UPDATE: Trump’s Syria Pullout Will Destroy the Middle East’s Only Woman-Led Democracy

https://www.thenation.com/article/trump-syria-kurds/

UPDATE: Galbraith: Trump decision can lead to chaos in Syria

https://www.benningtonbanner.com/stories/galbraith-trump-decision-can-lead-to-chaos-in-syria,586958

UPDATE: Europe could do more to stop the Turkish invasion of Rojava, but states fear a democratic revolution

https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/can-europe-make-it/europe-could-do-more-stop-turkish-invasion-rojava-states-fear-democratic-revolution/

UPDATE: SoCal's Kurds Rally To Save Their Radical Democratic Enclave in Northern Syria

https://laist.com/2019/10/31/socal_rally_militant_feminist_anarchist_revolutionary_experiment_syria.php

UPDATE: Paolo Todd - How an Arcata man came to give his life to a cause a world away

https://www.northcoastjournal.com/humboldt/paolo-todd/Content?oid=15610928

UPDATE: Special report: Bay Area academics visit Kurds in Northern Syria

https://48hills.org/2019/11/foreign-correspondent-kurds-rojava/

UPDATE: Turkey’s Plan in Syria: Squash Dreams of Kurdish Autonomy

https://www.fairobserver.com/politics/turkey-plan-kurds-autonomy-rojava-syria-war-news-18181/

UPDATE: International Solidarity With the Kurds Energizes Revolution on the Ground

https://truthout.org/articles/international-solidarity-with-the-kurds-energizes-revolution-on-the-ground/

UPDATE: An important call for women worldwide to rise up against the Turkish invasion of northeast Syria

https://www.thecanary.co/global/world-news/2019/11/18/an-important-call-for-women-worldwide-to-rise-up-against-the-turkish-invasion-of-northeast-syria/