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Breaking News: Turkish invading army enters Syria Kobanê Canton

July 30, 2017 By administrator

Turkey Syria kurdThe invading Turkish army has entered and deployed military forces in Rojava’s Kobanê Canton.

Rojava-based Hawar News Agency (ANHA) reported that the invading Turkish army has crossed the border into Rojava near Bobene and Sifteke villages west of Kobanê at 21:30 Sunday evening, and deployed military forces in this region.

Villagers stated that Turkish soldiers are planting mines in this area.

On the other hand, reports suggest that the invading Turkish army is massing troops and stationing construction equipment along the border.

In the meantime, YPG fighters warned that they will retaliate the Turkish troops in the event that they do not retreat from the Kobanê soil.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: enters, kobane, Syria, Turkish Army

Kurd Suruç people gather at the border in solidarity with Kobanê people

September 3, 2016 By administrator

suric peoplePeople in Suruç district of Urfa have gathered at the border in solidarity with Kobanê people who continue a vigil against Turkish military occupation for the eight day.

URFA – ANF

People in Suruç district of Urfa have gathered at the border in solidarity with Kobanê people who continue a vigil against Turkish military occupation some 150 meters to Mürşitpınar Border Crossing for the eight day.

Demonstrators who chant “Kobanê people are not alone” are supported by a delegation made up of HDP deputies for Urfa and representatives of non-governmental organisations. The delegation intends to cross into Kobanê and make a statement to the press after talks with Turkish officials.

 

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: kobane, people, Solidarity, Suruc

Last Armenian families from Kobane fleeing Syria do not intend to return

June 30, 2015 By administrator

By İdris Emen – ŞANLIURFA,

n_84776_1Just like their ancestors forced from their homes in Eastern Anatolia in 1915-16, the last Armenian families living in the embattled northern Syrian town of Kobane have fled after the repeated jihadist attacks – and they do not intend to go back.

Agop Tomasyon, an Armenian from Kobane close to the Turkish border, who fled his hometown for Turkey around nine months ago when the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) launched an attack, said the last eight Armenian families had left Syria for good and would not return.

“There were only eight families left before the ISIL attack [in October 2014]. All of these families left Kobane after the attack,” said Tomasyon.

Syrian Kurdish forces expelled ISIL fighters from Kobane on June 27 and retook full control after three days under siege, after a group of ISIL militants stormed into the border town. ISIL had also failed to capture Kobane at the start of 2015 after four months of deadly clashes.

Tomasyan, who belongs to one of the three families in the Suruç refugee camp, said they had to leave their hometown after ISIL’s attack because they knew that the jihadists would kill them once they learned that they were Christians.

“We understood that it was time for us to go. We decided to come to Turkey after a discussion between the last Armenians left. Eventually we came to Suruç,” he said. From Suruç, the eight families had spread to various other places.

“One family settled in Şanlıurfa, another in Hatay, and another in Aleppo. Two of the families who had passports went to Armenia. The remaining three families were placed in refugee camps in Suruç,” Tomasyan said.

He added that they had at one point decided to return to Kobane but changed their minds after his brother was killed by jihadists in front of his son’s eyes during ISIL’s latest attack.

“Before the recent ISIL assault, my brother wanted to return to Kobane to see how his house and store was. He took his 14-year-old son with him, but later he was killed by ISIL in front of his son,” Tomasyan said.

“Kobane is not our homeland anymore.”

The 14-year-old Aram Tomasyan, who is Agop Tomasyan’s nephew, said four ISIL members wearing uniforms of the Kurdish People’s Defense Units (YPG) had shot his father on the morning of June 24.

“My father was bleeding from his heart when he fell on the ground. Despite this he still raised his hand and said, ‘Son, run, they are ISIL.’ I ran. If I hadn’t run, I would have been shot too,” the boy said.

The elder Tomasyon said the ancestral roots of Kobane’s Armenians could be traced back to Southern and Central Anatolia, but his ancestors were exiled during the massacre and deportation of Ottoman Armenians in 1915-16. They fled to Kobane and settled there to start a new life.

“We had said that we would never leave Kobane, no matter what,” said Tomasyan, adding that they had two churches in the town and lived in harmony with everyone around them.

During the YPG’s battles against ISIL last year over Kobane, tens of people died in street unrest launched in a number of Turkish cities on Oct. 6 and 7, 2014, amid calls from Turkish Kurds for Ankara to do more to prevent the town from falling to ISIL.

Source: Hurriyetdailynews

July/01/2015

Filed Under: Articles, Genocide Tagged With: Armenian, family, fleeing, kobane

Turkey ‘let Isil cross border to attack Kobane’: as it happened

June 25, 2015 By administrator

By Andrew Marszal, and Louisa Loveluck, Cairo

Syrian border town of Kobani (Ayn al-Arab)

Syrian border town of Kobani (Ayn al-Arab)

Kurds accuse Turkey of allowing Islamic State to cross border and attack key border previously secured by US air strike. Follow latest developments here.  The Telegraph

• Isil reenter Kobane, scene of 4-month battle to January
• Jihadists detonate three bombs near Turkey border
• Syria claims Isil attacked from within Turkey; Turkey denies
• At least 12 dead in Kobane attack; 23 executed in nearby village
• Simultaneous Isil assault on Hasakeh in northeastern Syria
• Separate rebel groups including al-Qaeda attack Daraa in south

CCTV footage captured the moment one of this morning’s car bombs exploded. An Isil Toyota pickup truck can be seen approaching a YPG checkpoint, and then exploding.

As the fallout from today’s attacks begins, questions will be asked as to how a car rammed-full of explosive was able to infiltrate the heart of a town that was meant to have been secured.

The Kurdish militia YPG has begun to “surround” and “sweep the area” where Isil jihadists infiltrated Kobane, spokesman Rêdûr Xelîl told the Telegraph:

Today’s early morning, a group of five cars, loaded with 30-35 of Isil elements, wearing the clothes and raising the flag of the FSA [Free Syrian Army rebels] has undertaken a suicide attack.

They entered from the South and the West sides of Kobane to inside the town. In the beginning they exploded a suicide car bomb near the crossing [with Turkey] then they opened fire randomly at civilians, among them women and children.

Then they infiltrated inside to the neighborhoods. The YPG has started to surround them and sweep the area where they entered.

So far, 15 of this group were killed. Three of them managed to escape to Turkey. There are still some elements hiding inside the city.

The clashes are still going on between Isil elements and the YPG.

So far, we have no confirmed news, if this group entered Kobane though the Turkish borders or not. The primary information and the eye witnesses say that they entered from Turkey but officially we don’t have confirmed information yet.

Isil attacked a village called Barambarkh, near the area of Terreen, 20 km from Kobane. Terreen is a border Zone with Isil. In the village they are talking about 20 civilians [killed] but I don’t know for sure the credibility of this number.

After Isil has lost many strategic areas, it wants to prove to its supporters and its elements that they are still powerful and capable to do a lot of things. So that is why they attacked Kobane and the south part of Hasakeh.

It’s not easy for Isil to return back to Kobane. We are expecting some operations of that kind as we have 400 km of borders with them but it’s difficult for them to return to occupy the area.”

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: ISIS, kobane, Kurd, Turkey

Greek civil campaign for solidarity reaches out to Kobane

March 7, 2015 By administrator

greece-help-kobaneA campaign for solidarity with the people of Kobane, which was launched in Greece, has already yielded results, with considerable humanitarian assistance collected in Greece reaching Turkey’s southern province of Gaziantep and the nearby town of Suruç in Şanlıurfa province in late February.

The campaign’s motto was “Solidarity with Kobane means keeping life alive,” and several civil society organizations, as well as municipalities and national radio channels, actively joined the campaign in Turkey’s Aegean neighbor. The Sto Kokkino radio station, an initiative called “Solidarity for Everybody,” the PRAKSIS addiction treatment center, and the Civil Servants Union were among those who participated in the campaign.

Ultimately, 13 tons of staple foods, 124 large boxes of drugs, 1,400 packages of medical material, and 1,000 new blankets were taken to Turkey by a 23-person delegation from Greece.

The delegation that arrived in Istanbul on Feb. 23 proceeded to Şanlıurfa on the same day. The first part of the assistance was handed over to officials from the Turkish Red Crescent Society (Kızılay) in Gaziantep and the largest part of the assistance was taken to Suruç, where it was handed over to officials.

“We once more thank everybody who has joined this campaign and we convey the most true-hearted feelings of those from Kobane to whom this assistance has reached,” a representative from the delegation told the Hürriyet Daily News ahead of their departure for Athens.

Throughout the five days they spent in Southeastern Anatolia before returning to Athens, the delegation made contact with politicians, local administrators, municipalities, civil society organizations, and associations, while also visiting refugee camps in the region hosting Syrian people.

Diyarbakır Co-Mayor Gültan Kışanak, Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Diyarbakır Provincial Chair Zübeyde Zümrüt, and Feyza Abdi, a local elected deputy of Kobane who is now a refugee in Turkey, were among the individuals who the Greek group met.

The group from Greece was composed of Mirto Bolota, Dikeos Psikakos, Ilias Daskalopoulos, Katerina Ventoni, Emi Karimali, Cina Sivirli, Irini Probona, Tanasis Ciumbas, Dina Daskalopoulou, Petros Kaçakos, Mihalis Karayannis, Georgios Deçis, Lidya Kontordu, Ibrahim Muslem, Paraskevas Pothitos, Panayotis Haldeos, Haris Maçukas, Georgia Ikonomou, Katerina Prifti, Angeliki Fikoura, Katerina Papagika, Eleni Hristuli, Yesthimani Epitimiadu and Georgios Karaçibanis.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Campaign, kobane, kreek

Kobane’s streets of death: Executed ISIS fighters are lined up

January 30, 2015 By administrator

WARNING: GRAPHIC CONTENT 

By SIMON TOMLINSON FOR MAILONLINE

2531A8A400000578-0-image-a-38_1422633368907Kurdish fighters have killed dozens of Islamic State militants in recent days as battles continue to rage around the strategic Syrian border town of Kobane. 

In one village, a Kurd was today pictured standing over the bodies of Islamic extremists after they were killed in Halimce, a village east of the town.

Around 20 jihadists also died in the hills west of Kobane days after it was recaptured following months of heavy fighting which has left the town in ruins.

Kurdish forces retook the town on January 26 in a symbolic blow to the jihadists who have seized large swathes of territory in their onslaught across Syria and Iraq. 

Syrian Observatory for Human Rights director Rami Abdel Rahman said: ‘Nineteen ISIS members were killed in fighting against the (Kurdish) People’s Protection Units (YPG) in the hills surrounding Manaz to the west of Kobane.

‘Another three jihadists died in fighting around villages to the east of Kobane, while the YPG also took one ISIS member prisoner,’ he told AFP.  

The YPG had also recaptured five villages around Kobane this week, according to Mr Rahman, whose Britain-based group relies on a network of sources inside Syria.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: Death, ISIS, kobane, streets

‘Kobanê has been liberated, now for the villages’

January 27, 2015 By administrator

88d0b653adf97e0a8c2af7a07e1d724aYPG/YPJ fighters Medya Meysa, Ezda Dilbirin, Siyamend and Koçer, who took part in the operation in Kaniya Kurda that completed the liberation of Kobanê, said: “Now it is the turn of the villages.”

Miraculous resistance

The YPG/YPJ fighters said a miraculous resistance had been put up against ISIS, and that they had turned the city into a hell for them. After a long defensive struggle they had gone on the offensive in December when the liberation operation had begun, quickly liberating areas in the south of the city. Report firatnews

The liberation of Mistenur was the turning point

The liberation of Mistenur Hill, the most strategic point in the city, proved to be the turning point in the operation, after which the ISIS gangs were confined to the Kaniya Kurda neighbourhood. Yesterday morning YPG/YPJ forces inflicted the final blow on the gangs, driving them out of the Kaniya Kurda area in an operation that only lasted 3 and a half hours, after which the liberation of Kobanê city was declared.

YPG / YPJ fighters who took part in yesterday’s operation said that the struggle was not over, and that ISIS gangs had to be cleansed from all the villages in Kobanê.

Medya Meysa said that women fighters had played a significant role in the operation in Kaniya Kurda, adding that now it was the turn of the villages around Kobanê to be liberated.

‘We resisted everywhere’

Ezda Dilbirîn said that they were pleased to have liberated Kobanê city a day before the anniversary of the declaration of Kobanê being declared a canton. She added: “The resistance was arduous. We resisted for months despite being outgunned, thanks to our will power. Only fighters with the determination and resilience provided by the philosophy of Apo could stand up to this onslaught. We succeeded in liberating Kobanê. I’m from here. I was born here and grew up here. With the revolution in Kobanê I enjoyed the taste of freedom. I couldn’t contemplate life without freedom, and that gave me the determination to fight the ISIS gangs. All my women comrades resisted on this basis and we dedicate our victory to our people.” She added that after this they would not allow ISIS or any other force near Kobanê.

‘Now it is the turn of Kobanê’s villages’

Siyamend and Koçer said: “We also took part in the operation to liberate Kobanê and our happiness is indescribable. But we will not become complacent, as we now have to liberate the villages. We have kept our promise to liberate the city, now we have to keep our promise to liberate the villages of Kobanê. We would like to offer our immeasurable gratitude to our comrades from all four parts of Kurdistan, from Turkey, and Arab comrades who are resisting with us for a democratic Syria.”

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: kobane, Kurd, liberated

ISIS attacks Kobanê people under Turkish army supervision

December 24, 2014 By administrator

12.24.2014

ISIS gangs attacked people from Kobanê this morning with heavy weapons from the cover of a Turkish military post. Reported by firatajans.

ISIS gangs that are suffering heavy blows every day in Kobanê have begun to attack civilians. People from the village of Merdesimbêl near Kobanê brought their vehicles to an area 50 metres from the Mert Ismail military post on the Suruç border around 2 months ago, then crossed the border. The gangs then stole hundreds of vehicles from under the noses of Turkish troops, whereupon residents of Alişar who brought their vehicles to the same area have not abandoned them. The people have resisted the threats and attacks of gangs and Turkish soldiers alike.

This morning around 40 gang members based in the village of Alişar attacked the people from the security area within the military post. 100 people initially resisted, then took refuge in the military post. The soldiers, in two armoured vehicles, ignored what was going on right next to the military post. As the gang members occupied the area where the vehicles were parked, the soldiers withdrew to the confines of the post.

In the past ISIS gangs have attacked from security areas, killing one person in the village of Swêdê and 4 in the village of Boydê. The gangs are continuing their attacks, claiming the vehicles as booty.

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: ISIS, kobane, Kurd, Turkey

Turkish police clash with Kobane protesters near Syria border

December 2, 2014 By administrator

n_75120_1Turkish police have clashed with protesters demonstrating in support of the Kurdish town of Kobane near Syria’s border with Turkey.

The Democratic Regions Party (DBP), which shares similar grassroots with the outlawedKurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), organized the demonstration in the Silopi district of the southeastern province of Şırnak on Dec. 2. The group peacefully marched to protest the ongoing attacks of the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL) in Kobane.

The clashes started after the march, after some protesters threw Molotov cocktails and the police used tear gas, Doğan News Agency reported. An armored police vehicle was set alight in the clashes, but police were able to extinguish the fire with water cannon.

 

Filed Under: Articles Tagged With: kobane, police, Turkish

Fighting continues in Kobane, Turkish bombardment wounds many Kurds civilians and fighters

November 30, 2014 By administrator

By RUDAW

kobani-turk-attackKOBANE BORDER—Turkish bombardment of Kobane on Saturday has wounded a number of civilians and fighters inside the Kurdish city, the city administrator said.

“Under the pretense of stopping an ISIS attack on Turkey the Turkish army bombarded the center of Kobane with tanks and artillery,” Anwar Muslim, co-chair of the Kobane canton told Rudaw. “A number of civilians and fighters have been wounded.”

Muslim said that heavy fighting is going on between the Islamic State (ISIS) militants and the Peoples Protection Units (YPG) and the Peshmerga forces in several parts of the city.

“The YPG and Peshmerga have countered all the attacks, the fighting is still going on and we have a number of wounded,” said Muslim.

He added that the Kurdish forces still control most of the city, but “the ISIS has mined the few parts of the city that are under their control,”

Muslim said that the Turkish authorities had turned off electricity at the refugee camp on the border and imposed a total blackout during their bombardment of the city.

Earlier in the day Reuters reported that four ISIS militants had led the attack on Kobane by blowing themselves up at the crossing point between Turkey and the Kurdish city.

According to the report, 30 people were killed in the beginning of renewed clashes between the Kurdish forces and the Islamist fighters.

Kurdish leaders accused Turkey of facilitating the attack on the city, but the office of Turkish Prime Minister dismissed the accusation, saying the vehicles used in the car bombings hadn’t crossed from Turkey.

Filed Under: News Tagged With: bombardment, kobane, Turkish

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