Uta Schneiderbanger with Kurdish name Nudem, which means “New Time”, was born on July 20, 1961 in Mühlheim an der Ruhr in Germany. Since her youth she has been active in leftist movements, especially in the women’s movement. Uta heard about the new Kurdish liberation movement for the first time at the end of the […]
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She was born in January 1981 in Ankara. Her family was originally from Agean region of Turkey. She left her studies in Ankara University Sociology Department in her last year. During her university studies she met Kurds and the Kurdish freedom movement. She participated in different student movements. At the same time she participated in
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Interview about Sehid Helin Qerecox with Heval Berivan and Heval Gelhat Anna Campbell, Helin Qerecox, left for Rojava in May 2017 to join the Women’s Defense Units (YPJ). A year ago, on March 15, 2018, she fell in an attack by the Turkish army in the defense of Efrîn. With others, she has become a
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Şehid Şevger Ara Makhno, martyred March 4, 2018 in the fight against fascism in Afrin, Rojava. In memory of Ş. Şevger Ara Makhno, written by friends of Ş. Şevger Ara Makhno Ara was always thriving to be in a place he belongs to. His time in Europe was tough. He felt the individualism of people,
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Şehîd Şahîn Qereçox (Farid Medjahed) arrived to Rojava in June 2018 to fight alongside the YPG and in the defense of their revolution against Daesh, the Turkish army and fascism. He came to this decision, having been involved in many struggles against a system that is bringing death to nature and the communal values of
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The following speech was first shared at the demonstration and memorial event in Munich on October 27. October 23rd 2018 Speech of the Internationalist Commune of Rojava Dear friends and comrades, 20 years ago, at the 23rd of October, 24 of our comrades were killed in Catak, Bakur, by the Turkish military. One of them
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[embedyt] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wt8OqAvnpPs[/embedyt] Sehid Sahin Huseyni (Haukur Hilmarsson) came in 2017 in Rojava to support the revolution. The social progress in north Syrian groung is a process of decades of the kurdish autonomous movement. In recent years we see and understand that the legacy of north Syria’s autonomy is an outcome of many enthnicities as Kurds,
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Pictures of the şehids, or martyrs of the revolutionary struggle, are everywhere in Rojava. Backed by canary-yellow and forest-green YPG/YPJ livery, they stare out from roadside hoardings and the walls of schools and hospitals, from the phone backgrounds of comrades in the military and civilian structures, at the entrance to each city and in endless
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