#defend kurdistan

[black-mosquito]

❌ #RojavaIsUnderAttack ❌

Die Angriffe des türkischen Staates haben sich seit letzter Nacht weiter intensiviert – der Druck auf den Straßen muss erhöht werden!

Heutige Demo-Termine:

📍 Kiel 17 Uhr , Hbf

📍 Essen 17 Uhr, Hbf

📍 Köln 17 Uhr, Dom

📍 Aschaffenburg 17:30 Uhr, Marktplatz

📍Hannover 16 Uhr, Hbf

📍 Wuppertal 17 Uhr, Hbf

📍 Mönchengladbach 17 Uhr, Hindenburgstr.

📍 Duisburg 17 Uhr, Hbf

📍 Hagen 17 Uhr, Elberfelder Str. 25

📍 Bielefeld 17 Uhr, Hauptbahnhof

📍Münster 19 Uhr, Hbf

Achtet auf weitere Ankündigungen (zum Beispiel bei ›Defend Kurdistan‹ auf Twitter).

[fishblings]

PD gang with some of my headcanons!

[polyanarchist]

Turkish media are blaming the recent bomb in Taksim square on the PKK which everyone knows is bullshit but Erdogan is thinking about the Turkish election coming up. Last night Turkish warplanes bombed multiple cities in Rojava (northeastern Syria) as well as just across the border in southern Turkey and in the Kurdish part of Iraq. Kobanê is among the targeted cities.

They have also been making grisly chemical attacks against guerillas living in caves in the mountains in Turkey. That's right, they have been bombing and gassing their own citizens as well as those of neighboring countries.

If you want to help, you can contribute to the campaigns to close the airspace over Syria, to remove PKK from the terrorist list, and to stop supplying Turkey with chemical weapons and components for drones.

Emergency Committee for Rojava put out this toolkit for US-bases supporters:

[fuckyeahmarxismleninism]

Remember and fight: Memorial demonstration in Berlin for Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg

Palestine solidarity as a trigger for police attacks that left numerous people injured.

By Nick Brauns, junge Welt

“Viva Palestine” could be heard from afar from the kilometer-long demonstration that marched under red flags to the Socialist Cemetery: Israel's war against Gaza was the dominant theme at the traditional memorial demonstration for Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg, the co-founders of the Communist Party of Germany who were murdered by right-wing Freikorps soldiers 105 years ago, on Sunday in Berlin.

Solidarity with Palestine was also the trigger for brutal police attacks that left numerous people injured. First, a speaker from a block of mostly Palestinian demonstrators was arrested -- the reason for this was the banned slogan "From the river to the sea, Palestine will be free," a police spokesman told jW. After the arrest, blocks of the front part of the demonstration turned around and the police were briefly pushed away.

The frightening results of the subsequent use of batons and pepper spray by the helmeted state power: A 65-year-old man, run over by the police, lay unconscious on the ground and bleeding from his mouth and nose. According to demonstration paramedics, 15 other demonstrators also had to be treated in hospital with injuries, some of them serious, such as broken bones. The police, however, spoke of attacks on officers during the demonstration, with 21 police officers injured.

"I'm glad that the other demonstrators immediately showed their solidarity with us. This is where our strength lies,” a Palestinian activist named Walid told jW.

According to the police, among the 16 demonstrators arrested are several musicians from Turkey's Grup Yorum, who are currently on a hunger strike for comrades imprisoned in the Federal Republic of Germany.

According to the organizers, more than 10,000 people took part in the demonstration. In addition to blocks from DKP and SDAJ, MLPD, Trotskyist groups and socialist parties from Turkey and Kurdistan, but also left-wing trade unionists and neighborhood initiatives, what was noticeable was the strong participation of mostly young supporters of Marxist-Leninist organizations, dressed in black and in orderly formations among a sea of ​​red flags. “Road free for the red youth,” “Youth, future, socialism” and “With Rosa and Karl against war and capital” were heard from these blocks.

With the banner "Defend Revolutionary History! Attack German warmongers!” and images of Luxemburg, Liebknecht and Lenin, who died 100 years ago, the “Perspective Communism” movement made it clear that commemoration is not a nostalgic end in itself. This is also how Sevda Karaca, a member of the Labor Party (EMEP) in the Turkish parliament, sees it. “Rosa Luxemburg and Karl Liebknecht are revered worldwide as champions of socialism,” Karaca told this newspaper at the Socialist Cemetery. "In times when fascist ideas are increasing worldwide, it is particularly important that we reflect on the roots of our resistance."

Even before the demonstration arrived, thousands of people, including the leadership of the Die Linke party, had taken part in a "silent commemoration." The murdered labor leaders were honored at their graves with red carnations and wreaths.

Solidarity with the Palestinian struggle for freedom, the call for peace and the need for socialism also played a central role at the 29th International Rosa Luxemburg Conference. The conference organized by this newspaper took place on Saturday in the Berlin Tempodrom with a new record attendance of 3,700 visitors.

Translation by Melinda Butterfield

https://www.jungewelt.de/artikel/466755.ll-demo-erinnern-und-k%C3%A4mpfen.html

[hero-israel]

Similarly to pinkwashing and greenwashing, you cannot talk about Israeli women in any way else you are engaging with the most violent colonialist white feminism. Israeli women cannot be raped because they are not civilians, because draft. Women in the IDF can't be advertised to diaspora Jewish women as role models or aspirational because Genocide Barbie. Gal Gadot bathes in the blood of babies because she's not a great actress and prayed for Hamas to stop oppressing Palestinians? Israeli feminism is a cloak and daggers show meant to distract you from something something something Palestine something something.

I want these people to ask themselves why Israel is the only society on Earth that has a truly equitable, universal, gender blind draft? What kind of society do you think would want to put a gun in every able bodied person's hands if worst comes to worst? Perhaps the various Kurdistans, but hmm, I wonder if that only cements the point considering the Kurd's history too.

Only a society that has such an intimate relationship to trauma and death (and surviving and laughing in the face of that death) would want to prepare every single citizen for combat. It's not "our women are so sexy in uniform," it's not "we're so progressive actually," it's certainly not "we're so pathetic and weak we have to call up, gasp, womz to fight." It's a very prosaic reaction to 3000 years of attempted annihilation. Jewish women have been dealing with this shit for 3000 years. If they are capable of defending themselves and their communities, why should they sit out military training? Why shouldn't the Nation also expect their service in times of war? Why should they sit back and hope their men can defend them when they can just defend themselves and all the men and women can defend each other?

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[rootjin]

dear feminists (i mean women. like real women.),

please watch the movies “kobanê” and “girls of the sun” and then tell me what you think.

kobanê: Despite being outnumbered and outgunned, a female Kurdish fighter guides her fellow fighters in the resistance to defend their city, Kobane, from the deadly threat of ISIS. A real story of war, sacrifice, love and hope.

girls of the sun: Lawyer-turned-freedom fighter Bahar prepares to liberate her Kurdistan village and free her son taken hostage by extremists (ISIS). French journalist Mathilde, herself traumatized by the recent death of her husband in Libya, arrives to cover the story of Bahar and her Kurdish army known as 'Girls of the Sun'. During her time spent embedded within the ranks of this all-female unit of former ISIS captives, Mathilde faces her own inner demons and finds strength through adversity.

love u gyns xx

[ritchiepage2001newaccount]

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JinJiyanAzadi #BijiRojava Should the Art World Boycott Turkey? [UPDATES]

Artists, curators and gallerists may not be able to stop war, but we can tell those who rake its profits that the arts are not open for their business…

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[pokemonbiologyirlthetabletop]

Golett & Golurk

Golett (#622)

Saxusvitae parvus

General Information: Golett are man-made Pokémon forged by ancient civilizations, who utilized an unknown energy source in their creation. The secret to their creation has been lost to time, believed to be kept highly guarded by only a handful of lineages.

Goletts average at 3’3 feet (1 M) tall and weigh about 202.8 pounds (92 kg).

Habitat: Goletts were first created in the Middle East/Southwest Asia by ancient Hebrews and Zoroastrians. While Goletts can be found elsewhere, they are most prominent in this part of the world, where they are often members of families, towns, and cities.

Outside of captivity, Goletts enjoy rocky environments.

Life Cycles: The first Goletts were forged by humanity many countless generations ago using magical arts that have been forgotten to history or kept as closely guarded secrets. It is believed that the magic that keeps them animated has about a 5000-year life span, at which point the Golett dies at long last, if they were not killed sooner in combat or other means.

As sexless Pokémon, Goletts may only reproduce with other sexless Pokémon. They are incredibly picky about their mates, whom they will stay with for the entirety of their life. They reproduce slowly and rarely, though may be encouraged to mate more regularly if their partner is a species that needs to reproduce more frequently.

There are only a handful of predators to Goletts, namely the standard ones like Steelixes and Dusknoirs. Their size lends them to being picked off once in a while, especially outside of captivity.

Behavior: Goletts are loyal to a fault to their families. They are protectors and guardians of their home who will defend their family to their dying breath. They also really like playing with rocks and enjoy being helpful with construction projects.

Diet: They can eat the same things that we eat, but whatever animates them seems to do a good enough job of sustaining them. Players, you do not need to feed your Golett under normal circumstances, but it might be a polite gesture, and there may be occasions where a bit of food will help the Golett recover faster.

Conservation: Least Concern

Relationship with Humans: Goletts were created long ago by ancient peoples using magicks that have been lost to time and history, though some speculate that there may be a secret society that keeps the knowledge alive, should it ever become useful. In ages past, it was believed that Goletts were created by the dark arts, and historians and theologians have argued about this ever since, but without the recipe for creation, no one truly knows. Some believe this interpretation and version of events to be anti-semitic (a likely explanation), others point out that technically the Zoroastrians made them too (and may have made them first), others argue that it was strictly a practice by the ancient Hebrews, and others believe that it doesn’t really matter because they’re alive now and no one knows how to make new ones and they’re perfectly capable of reproducing on their own. So on and so forth. If you fancy upsetting a historian, ask them their thoughts on the creation of Goletts!

In modern times, Goletts are a common sight in Gaza, Egypt, Iran, Kurdistan, and what we once knew as Mesopotamia. There they are the family guardians to many households. Of course, there are other uses for them, and for thousands of years construction projects have utilized the aid of Goletts. They may not be terribly fast, but they are good, reliable workers.

Classification: Golett is in the genus “Saxusvitae” which means “living rock.” Its species epithet, “parvus” means “small” or “little.”

Golurk (#623)

Saxusvitae giganticus

General Information: Golurk the Automaton Pokémon. These Pokémon are capable of retracting its hands and legs into itself, where they become jet propulsions to launch themselves into the air and fly. The seal on its chest contains the power inside it, and removing it will cause the Golurk to lose control of itself and attack others indiscriminately. These rages can decimate entire towns.  

Golurks average at 9’2 feet (2.8 M) tall and weigh about 727.5 pounds (330 kg).

Habitat: Human towns and cities, or rocky environments.

Life Cycles: Once a Golurk evolves from a Golett, they gain new powers and strength, and a new role in society. While a Golurk can live for five-thousand years or so, many perish sooner because of their involvement in war. Should they live for that long, a Golurk may take on a mate (often another Golurk) if it did not have one already. They are tender and gentle with children and baby Pokémon, and any eggs, babies, or children left in a Golurk’s care will receive the ultimate protection and devoted caregiver.

Golurks reproduce slowly and rarely, and in captivity it is often only under the encouragement of their owners.

Behavior: A Golurk will obey its Master no matter what. They are protective of Pokémon, children, and their families. Should someone dare be foolish enough to threatened one its own, they will destroy this threat without hesitation. They are aware enough to understand the difference between play and real threats, a nuance they learn as Goletts. They are startlingly intelligent, fully aware of their surroundings and capable of human nuance, but they are still automatons programmed to obey their Masters. Their protectiveness also makes them excellent parents and guardians to children and Pokémon alike. Many are surprised by their gentleness with the little ones.

Diet: Same thing as Golett.

Conservation: Least Concern

Relationship with Humans: Golurks were created by humanity to act as guardians, laborers, and protectors. While the exact nature of their origins is hotly contentious, in the modern era they are largely seen as gentle giants. Kindergartens and daycares often employ a Golurk to care for the children and Pokémon that attend. There are strict taboos in place against undoing the seal on a Golurk, and fairytales and old wives tales periodically feature warnings against what happens when a Golurk goes berserk.

Classification: Golurk’s species epithet is “giganticus” which means “giant.” They were named by Linnaeus.

Evolution: Golurk evolves from Golett at level 43.

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[autistictaylorhebert]

hmm. worm bingo... I wanna say vista my sweet girl vista but I don't think many of those would apply to her. uhm. maybe miss militia or bakuda? just pick whichever you would prefer to do!

Miss Militia:

Love Miss Militia. Classic example of wildbow introducing an interesting concept that he isn't politically equipped to fully explore.

She's like the superhero manifestation of american imperialism. Traumatised child from Kurdistan is abducted by militarised forces and indoctrinated into usamerican liberalism and nationalism (and grows up to become a visual reference to the american armed forces, believing in and spreading the rhetoric wholeheartedly), and then continues the cycle of oppressing/failing to properly defend other traumatised children like Taylor. There's literally a scene in ward where she responds to anti-parahumans with a speech about who she thinks getting powers/shards makes parahumans better people. She's so idealistic (for concepts that fundamentally don't deserve it) that it utterly prevents her from criticising the institutions and structures she's part of, so she never actually solves or even understands any of the problems she cares about. She's the perfect US liberal hero.

But of course, this is wildbow, so none of this is actually deliberate or fully explored.

"Reading others' takes made them more interesting" for @masterstrangerprotocol 's HannahXPiggot stuff.

Vista:

She sure is a character I gueeeass. I liked the story beat of Vista being the last of the original BB wards with tones of survivor's guilt, even if it gets kind of dropped. Also in Ward there's a line that goes something like "Vista showed skin that she hadn't been allowed to show as a ward" and it's not really a big deal but that still feels a little silly to me.

"oohhh society has broken down and people are using guns against parahumans more and I am specifically going to fight warlords in earth bet, better strip down" ok thanks john very cool.

Sadly another victim of the brockton bay natural blonde virus as well.

Bakuda:

I think other people can express Bakuda theory better than I ever could. She's one of the biggest underrated characters in the story. She's like a season one villain who gets killed off, but still remains better constructed and more compelling than the antagonists that are introduced later. If worm is about oppressed and downtrodden people getting power and using it to try and get their grief validated in morally reprehensible ways, then Bakuda is queen, if only for her honesty alone. Also that thing about her surviving instead of Lung is extremely correct. Support woman's wrongs.

[dyke-on]

There's a serious tankie problem on the left but I'm not the most eloquent person to start that conversation. The problem is I see it seep into everyone's consciousness, I have been convinced of this rhetoric. I've seen anarchists of all people defend the state capitalism of supposed "socialist states".

What I will say is there's no reason to defend the atrocities committed by the USSR, no people in gulags didn't all deserve it, Stalin committed genocide against indigenous people in Russia, China doesn't give a single shit about labourers its the country of sweat shops like shein, North Korea is basically a monarchy that doesn't let its citizens leave without risking their lives.

We do not have to defend states whether they claim to be left or right, look around you from Kurdistan to Karabakh, Palestine to Sudan, states will not protect their people, they will side with their allies and be completely complicit in genocide and oppression

[workersolidarity]

[📹 Footage from the moment Iran's missile launch struck the headquarters for Israel's secret services, known globally as the Mossad.]

🇮🇷⚔️🇮🇱 🚀💥 🚨

💥IRAN LAUNCHES MISSILE STRIKE TARGETING MOSSAD HEADQUARTERS IN KURDISTAN💥

The Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps. (IRGC) of Iran targeted the headquarters of Israel's secret services, known globally as the Mossad, as well as several other positions of "terrorists" in Syria, with missile strikes, according to the Iranian Foreign Ministry.

“The action was in defense of the country’s sovereignty and security, and countering terrorism, and was a part of the Islamic Republic’s just punishment against violators of the country’s security,” Iranian Foreign Ministry spokesperson Nasser Kan'ani said in a statement.

“The Islamic Republic has always supported peace, stability, and security in the region and respected other countries' sovereignty, nonetheless, Tehran will not hesitate to exercise its legitimate and legal right to deter all sources of threats against its national security, defend its citizens and punish the criminals,” Kan’ani added.

In his statement, Kan'ani said that the recent terrorist attacks inside Iran were a result of a "miscalculation by the enemy" and that the IRGC launched "a targeted operation" targeting terrorists with "precise projectiles" after identifying their positions.

“Terrorism is a global threat, and Iran is determined to counter-terrorism within the framework of joint regional and international cooperation,” Kan’ani said about the strikes.

According to the IRGC statement, Iran said it fired several barrages of ballistic missiles at the bases of terrorists inside Syria, who were involved in recent attacks in Iran, in addition to targeting the headquarters of Israel's spy center in Iraqi Kurdistan.

The IRGC said its first missile targeted a gathering of commanders of terrorist cells that conducted the operations in Kerman and Rask, adding that the strike was launched as a result of information gathering on the Daesh takfiri terrorist group, known in the West as ISIS or ISIL.

The IRGC also said that a second missile strike targeted the main espionage center for Israel's Mossad secret services, and added that the strike resulted in the complete destruction of the Mossad headquarters there.

Iran says that the Mossad headquarters were used to "develop espionage operations and plan acts of terrorism" across the region, and added the strike was in retaliation for the recent assassinations of Resistance commanders by the Zionist entity.

A separate strike also conducted last night targeted Azhi Amin, a former al-Qaeda affiliate who was reportedly killed in the Iranian strike.

IRGC Brigadier General Amir-Ali Hajizadeh, Commander of Iran's Aerospace Forces told Press TV that approximately two dozen missiles were launched from three different Iranian provinces.

Four Kheibar-Shekan missiles were launched from southern Khuzastan towards Syria's Idlib Province, while four missiles were launched from Khermanshah region, and Seven others fired from East Azerbaijan towards the Mossad spy headquarters. In addition, nine missiles were launched towards various terrorist cells in Syria.

#source

#videosource

@WorkerSolidarityNews

[namorlei]

world

sometimes its weird to think abt how right now as im lying here in bed writing this, rain lightly tapping on the window and the quiet ambience of cars driving by that at the same time,

there is ongoing heavy fighting in ukraine, artillery such as that from ww1 raining down on the ukrainians just wanting to protect their families and liberties from a fascist colonial state that doesnt hold human life in any regard.

that right now israeli planes are dropping bombs indiscriminately on gazan homes, erasing entire neighborhoods from the map with no pushback. along with treating palestinians in the west bank as 2nd class citizens and forcing them out of their homes.

that the syrian government and russia continue dropping barrel bombs and shelling free syrian cities without mercy. along with turkey, syria, and iran all working together just to make sure a free kurdistan never forms.

that the junta in myanmar continues to conscript boys in a desparate attempt to hold onto what little power it still has as the various factions fighting for a free myanmar pre feb 2021. that the junta sets fire to entire villages and executes the inhabitants on the sole justification that "they could have joined the resistance"

as western governments, is it not our responsibility to be the proponents of democracy and freedom globally? why do we ignore all these plights in favor of conflicts we have no reason to be in?

why have the resistance in myanmar recieved no support at all? why havent we used our voice at the un to advocate for an independent kurdistan? why do we sit idly by as israel commits genocide in gaza? why have we not given ukraine a blank cheque to defend itself against one of the most blatant examples of aggression in the 21st century?

(im aware of far more conflicts and injusticies around the world, i just cant write about every single one in a single post... but that doesnt mean i dont care!)

[leftistfeminista]

A prison letter from Comrade Aysel KOÇ of the Maoist Komünist Parti. Aysel had continued to wage militant Maoist class struggle under the most trying of circumstances. Comrade Aysel has tried to fulfill the duties of the party with a revolutionary consciousness in every field she has been in since she was captured. In the F-type torture system where submission was imposed, she, as a female communist, did not hesitate to organize resistance

The Maoist women prisoners warned the guards many times not to put ISIS prisoners in the same cells as them. But the prison administration wanted to instigate conflict and even use ISIS thugs to tame the Maoists. The Maoist women heroically got revenge on an ISIS prisoner involved in a massacre of Kurds.

Maoist women were then accused of having hid weapons and communications in their underwear. In the conditions of prison there is not much space to hide anything. As punishment and as a security measure the Prison Authorities imposed "Security Underwear" on the revolutionary women. "Security Underwear" uniform is a euphemism for keeping Communist women prisoners in nothing but skimpy underwear as their only covering. This is obviously very humiliating and degrading to their dignity. But the Fascists are able to justify this lack of coverage in the name of security. And after their battle with the ISIS thugs, the authorities have an excuse to impose "Security Underwear" that gives as little coverage as possible to conceal anything. Aysel KOÇ and her comrades waged a militant struggle to keep their clothing on. These are the conditions of Maoist class war in the prisons of the Fascist enemy for women. There is a constant battle not just politically but to maintain female dignity. Keeping Communist women in nothing but revealing underwear is a common prison tactic to use supposed security concerns as an excuse to objectify revolutionary women so they no longer are taken seriously.

As women it is immensely difficult to wage revolutionary struggle, in the hands of the misogynist enemy who have the repressive power to constantly objectify your body, but Maoist women have the courage to do it!

Aysel Koç explained the dangerous developments in her letter sent from Sincan prison.

Dear comrade Adil, all-out attacks against social opposition continue in this area as well as outside. After the July 15 coup attempt, with the illegality of the State of Emergency and the Decree Law, the Erdoğan/AKP government targeted the political prisoners in prisons and put the Security Underwear on the agenda and "legalized" it. Even though they hesitate to implement it in practice with the invasion attack on Afrin today, it remains current. And the prison administration is taking provocative approaches to the Security Underwear practice! He took the first step by placing ISIS gangs in the 3rd section, where the revolutionary prisoners were located. Even though we warned many times, no step was taken and as a result, ISIS members were removed from the area we were in after we used revolutionary violence against Esin Durgun (Altıntuğ), the suspect of the Suruç and Gar Massacre, whom we encountered in Malta.

In short, the process is being prepared and intimidated in order to impose Security Underwear. Our answer is quite clear: we did not wear Security Underwear - we will not wear it, no matter what happens in the end. Currently, "disciplinary punishments" are being taken one after another because of our daily slogans and door beatings. Our existing communication channels are trying to be blocked in this way. When we go to defend the disciplinary investigations, our defenses are blocked and we are attacked by the guards. Most recently, our comrade Bahar's defense was blocked and she was attacked because she used the term "Kurdistan" in her defense. This is the current situation in Sincan Women's Closed Prison. We are very enthusiastic and moral. Our enthusiasm and morale will be even better with the Newroz fire we will light tomorrow. We will celebrate with the happiness of being in the fields with you. Newroz pyroz! Take good care of yourself. Goodbye for now, hoping to meet again. We wish you success in your work and embrace you tightly.

Our love MKP/MKB Case Prisoners Sincan/ANKARA

AYSEL KOÇ

Women's Closed Prison

G-4 Sincan/ANKARA

Comrades Sevinç Sönmez, Muhabbet Kurt of Sincan Women's Closed Prison, proudly celebrating the victory of their struggle for the return of their jeans, after being denied pants for two weeks.

[scottishcommune]

On this DAY OF INDIGENOUS RESISTANCE AND DIGNITY we join the call of the NATIONAL CONGRESS OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE in solidarity with the resistant peoples in Abya Yala and around the world, against the death that is imposed upon us by global patriarchal capitalism, now more than ever. On this day, 12.10, 531 years ago, the colonization of the continent of Abya Yala began. This marked the start of a destructive era of exploitation and oppression for indigenous populations not just in Abya Yala, but across the world – a hegemonic oppression policy which continues under colonial states to this day. Be it in the form of wars, modern slavery by corporations and business empires, the theft of land and the destruction of the environment, or by means of cultural genocides, the destruction of the languages and cultures of indigenous populations, and the denial of political participation and self-determination. Every day thousands of men, women, and children are victims of this system, are at the mercy of a permanent and cruel form of war. This is the result of a world order based on a mentality of destruction – destruction of the will of women, fomention of racism, suppression of personal and collective identity, destruction of social culture and ethics.

Undoubtedly, the only answer is resistance. Resistance through the creation of consciousness, the self-organization of people, and through their struggle – in particular that of women. This is why 12.10. is significant as a day – not merely as the beginning of the occupation of a continent but more than that, because it marks the beginning of resistance against all occupation. The organized resistance of the people, who will not remain silent against violence and oppression, who will not submit to colonialism and the prohibitions of exploitative regimes, but reject them, is the guarantor of justice, democracy and the freedom of all peoples. As Kongra Star, a movement of women struggling for freedom in Rojava, West Kurdistan and Syria, we know the pain associated with the occupation of one’s own land, the loss of one’s own history, language and traditions, and we know the power of organized resistance. For many years, here in Kurdistan and the Middle East, as women, we have been leading the struggle for our freedom, and the freedom of our land and our society. In our struggle and resistance we feel united with all oppressed peoples worldwide, with all resisting peoples, and with all resisting women. We, who are especially connected to our society and our land, are vanguards in the struggle for the freedom of our peoples. In this spirit, we express today our attachment and solidarity with the indigenous resistance, and we salute in particular all the militant women who are part of it. Jin Jiyan Azadî ! Berxwedan Jiyan e! Kongra Star October 12 2023

[mariacallous]

After blocking Sweden’s bid to join NATO for nearly two years, the Turkish parliament ratified Stockholm’s accession on Jan. 23, reaffirming Ankara’s commitment to the Western alliance. A parliamentary majority that included the ruling Justice and Development Party (AKP), its ally the Nationalist Action Party (MHP), and the main opposition Republican People’s Party (CHP) ultimately rallied in support of Sweden’s NATO accession. Hungary, the last remaining NATO member left to ratify Sweden’s accession, is expected to follow suit in the coming weeks.

Turkey’s support for Sweden’s accession long looked unlikely. By standing in the way, Turkey had a broader goal: to exploit the opportunity to undermine Western support for Kurdish aspirations in the Middle East. Sweden has been a sanctuary for the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), which Turkey labels a terrorist organization; it has offered political and financial support to PKK-linked Kurdish groups in northern Syria, the Democratic Union Party (PYD), and its military wing, the People’s Protection Units (YPG). To get Turkey’s backing to join NATO, Sweden agreed to cut these ties.

Still, a year ago, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan lambasted Sweden, saying that the country should not expect goodwill from Turkey if it fails to “show respect for the religious beliefs of Muslims and Turkish people.” Last September, Erdogan said Sweden had failed to keep its promises to Turkey to receive the green light, citing demonstrations in Stockholm in support of the PKK. Erdogan’s political ally Devlet Bahceli, who leads the far-right MHP, last year described Sweden as a “country that threatens our national existence,” adding that if Sweden remained unwilling to extradite Kurdish activists convicted of terrorism in Turkey, the MHP wouldn’t ratify its NATO accession.

Sweden refused this last demand, yet Erdogan and Bahceli still folded. This is welcome news for the United States and NATO, and it shows that nationalism and religious resentment ultimately take a back seat to Atlanticism in Turkey. However, Turkey’s stance on the so-called Kurdish issue will continue to sap NATO’s strength and credibility. The continued repression of the Kurds in Turkey is not in line with the democratic values that NATO purports to defend, and Turkey’s antagonism toward the Syrian Kurds puts it at odds with the United States. Turkey has now shown that it can bend, and in NATO’s strategic interests, it must do more than acquiesce to Sweden—it must acquiesce to a democratic resolution of the Kurdish question.

Erdogan’s and Bahceli’s statements about Sweden did reflect resentment among both the Turkish public and the governing elite. However, the target was never really Sweden but instead the United States, which many Turks now consider a hostile power because of its support for the Kurdish militants in Syria. Turkey sees the establishment of a de facto Kurdish state in Syria as the principal threat to its national security and resents that the United States arms and finances the PKK-linked Kurdish militants there. Turkey may have entertained the illusion that Washington would stop supporting the YPG in return for Turkey ratifying Sweden’s NATO membership.

Still, when it came to Sweden’s NATO accession, Turkey’s strategic imperative to stay anchored to the West carried the day. NATO membership remains as crucial for Ankara’s ruling elite today as it did when the country joined the alliance in 1952. Neither occasional clashes with Western powers nor Turkey’s business relations with Russia signal any latent desire to alter Turkey’s Western orientation. Geopolitical turmoil from Ukraine to the Red Sea makes it even more paramount for Turkey to maintain its ties to the West. Furthermore, Turkey depends on the United States to refurbish its air force and now expects that the U.S. Congress will lift its embargo on the $20 billion sale of F-16 aircraft and modernization kits to Turkey.

Turkey identifies as Western only in a military-strategic sense that does not imply belonging to the West in political-ideological terms—and it never has. Turkey shows how leaders who stand in opposition to the liberal and democratic values that NATO supposedly upholds can still embrace Atlanticism. Turkey was a democracy when it joined the bloc, but its democratic rule was regularly suspended by military coups without its membership being called into question. On the contrary, the coups aligned with NATO interests, as the military was loyal to the Western alliance and suppressed left-wing calls for a nonaligned Turkey.

In fact, NATO resources were mobilized in the service of anti-democratic forces in Turkey in the past, notably under Bahceli’s predecessor as MHP leader, Alparslan Turkes. A military officer, Turkes received counterinsurgency education in the United States in the 1950s. He played a leading role in Turkey’s 1960 military coup and was later connected to the political killings of leftist activists in Turkey in the 1970s. The latter campaign, led by right-wing militias, was motivated by the fear of a communist takeover. The Turkish military, the police, and the intelligence community benefited from covert NATO support and advice in their anti-communist campaign. No NATO allies questioned the role that Turkish security forces played.

Both NATO adherence and authoritarianism remain salient in Turkey. The Turkish parliamentary majority that ratified Sweden’s NATO accession was the same group of parties that made it possible to imprison lawmakers in 2016 by stripping parliamentarians of their immunity. That November, the co-chairs of the pro-Kurdish Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP), Selahattin Demirtas and Figen Yuksekdag, and eight other HDP parliamentarians were arrested. They remain behind bars, in violation of fundamental democratic principles.

During the Cold War, anti-communism bound together liberal democracies and right-wing dictatorships, offering Atlanticism some ideological leeway. But NATO can no longer overlook violations of democratic principles among its members as lightly as it did back then, when the overriding goal of resisting communism conferred political legitimacy on authoritarian governments in Turkey, Greece, and Portugal. Today, as global forces pit Western democratic capitalism against Russian and Chinese authoritarian capitalism, the West’s claim to moral superiority relies exclusively on its pretention to represent democracy.

NATO Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg rejoiced that completing Sweden’s accession to NATO “makes us all stronger and safer.” But democracy advocates in Turkey and beyond have reason to question an Atlanticism that is embraced by authoritarian and nationalist forces in Ankara—and in turn empowers them. The fact that a strategic imperative compels Turkey’s authoritarian leaders to back Sweden undermines the Western narrative that equates Atlanticism and the defense of liberal values.

Unless Western democrats and U.S. lawmakers begin caring as much about the liberation of imprisoned elected officials in Turkey as they do about Sweden joining NATO, Atlanticism will appear to lose some of its liberal democratic purpose. Furthermore, domestic repression in Turkey—and specifically the government’s refusal to accommodate the democratic demands of its Kurdish citizens—will have destabilizing regional effects. Ankara’s standoff with the Kurds will in turn keep the United States and Turkey at odds in Syria, standing in the way of their strategic relationship.

That Turkey has demonstrated that it has no other option than to submit to the United States and its allies reveals the limits of Turkish nationalism. It also offers U.S. lawmakers an opportunity to reassert the democratic purpose of Atlanticism. Although U.S. President Joe Biden urged Congress to approve the F-16 sale between Washington and Ankara “without delay” after Turkey ratified Sweden’s NATO accession, U.S. lawmakers should consider making the sale conditional on the release of Demirtas and other imprisoned elected officials in Turkey. Otherwise, NATO stands to lose credibility.

After a U.S. aircraft shot down a Turkish drone targeting Kurdish positions in northern Syria last October, a furious Erdogan vowed to respond, saying that Turkey has a “security problem” with the United States. But as Turkey’s capitulation over the ratification of Sweden’s NATO accession makes clear, the United States has little reason to worry. Washington should instead expect that increased pressure on Ankara to live up to NATO’s democratic standards will eventually pay off. A fully democratic Turkey would strengthen the bloc as much—if not more—than Sweden’s accession.

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INFOREEL : Limelight On Bolochistan

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Today we will limelight on bolochistan.

Estimated 10,000 to 20,000 and more baloch are missing since 2006 after The assassination of veteran Baloch leader nawab Akbar Bugti - he was the first who acknowledges the plight of bolochistan and boloch who was being looted by the army regime of Pakistan , he strive for the equal right for boloch in Pakistan, but what's the end result, assassination he was assassinated by the Pak agency and this led the continues assassinations & abductions of thousands of baloch who spoke for their rights in Balochistan and outside Balochistan the prominent example is the assassination of Karima baloch in 2020 she was the outspoken baloch activist living in Canada for almost five years .

I ask only this? Where Is muslim ummah, where are they , muslim ummah always stands & defend for the rights of muslims - correct ,but when it's comes to bolochistan why are they silence, Are Baloch not enough to be a Muslims ? The struggle is already been for 20 years and more How much will u wait to speak up.

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