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palestina libera · Beiträge: 1665

After suffering heavy blows in the hands of YPG/YPJ combatants during the spring of 2014 and facing resistance to the attacks in all areas, ISIS gangs had understood that it would not be that easy to attack Kobanê.

http://en.firatajans.com/kurdistan/21st-century-epic-of-resistance-kobane-2

21st Century Epic of Resistance: Kobanê -3

After attacking Kobanê with a great force of arms during the month of June, ISIS gangs understood that it would not be possible to take the town by ordinary attacks and strategies in the face of the epic resistance they faced.

http://en.firatajans.com/kurdistan/21st-century-epic-of-resistance-kobane-3

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While reaction and criticism continues over the release of a photograph belonging to YJA Star guerrilla Kevser Eltürk (Ekin Wan) as stripped off her uniform, Turkish soldiers have committed another inhumane treatment against a HPG guerrilla.

Soldiers have released a photo on social media of a tortured HPG guerrilla who lost his life in Kars two days ago.

The HPG guerrilla in the photo is seen to have been tortured after his death in a clash in the rural area of Karabaş village in Sarıkamış district of Kars on September 20th.

http://en.firatajans.com/kurdistan/soldiers-release-photo-of-hpg-guerrilla-tortured-after-death

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Gangs affiliated to Al-Nusra, Ahrar Al-Sham and Nureddin Zenki have intensified their attacks on the YPG/YPJ-held Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood of Aleppo for the last one week. The attacks have left two civilians dead, one of them a child, and 15 others wounded.

YPG Aleppo General Commander Rezan Rojhat answered ANF's questions about the reason why the attacks have intensified, the current situation in the neighborhood and the role of the Turkish state in these attacks.

YPG Commander stated that attacks on Sheikh Maqsoud neighborhood have increased in line with the “buffer zone” plan of the Turkish state which -he said- has sent munitions to the gang groups several days ago. Rezan Rojhat remarked that Al-Nusra gangs have deployed all their forces around the neighborhood and are now preparing for a more extensive assault within the coming days.

http://en.firatajans.com/kurdistan/ypg-commander-turkey-has-sent-two-trucks-of-weapons-to-gang-groups

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Turkish state forces know no bounds in the savagery they commit against the Kurdish people whom they terrorize with a “clear instruction” of President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan and Prime Minister Ahmet Davutoğlu.

A photo from Şırnak shows 24-year-old Hacı Lokman Birlik tied behind an armored police vehicle and dragged on the ground after his execution by special operation teams in Dicle neighborhood of Şırnak late Friday.

Eyewitnesses told that Birlik was first wounded in the armed attack of state forces, upon which special operation members came near him, shot him to death, and stepped on his head as they had a photo taken at the scene. Witnesses said the policemen later dragged Birlik's body on the ground until they took it out of the street where they killed him in Dicle neighborhood.

http://anfenglish.com/kurdistan/photo-of-the-turkish-savagery

Another youth killed by police in Nusaybin

Turkish police have killed yet another youth in Nusaybin district of Mardin.

27-year-old Şahin Turan was shot by police as he drove his motorcycle on Azizoğlu Street of Yeni Turan neighborhood Saturday afternoon.

http://anfenglish.com/kurdistan/another-youth-killed-by-police-in-nusaybin

Cemile Cagirga: A Girl is Freezing Under State Fire

“As a child born in the southeast, after the ‘90s, you’re not really a kid. During your infancy, you’re really a child between 1-5 years old. As a 6-year old, you’ve actually grown up and are considered to be 15 years old. When you turn 10, you’re actually 20. After 15, you feel like you’re 40 years old.”

İmren Demirbaş, 16-year old Kurdish girl, Diyarbakir [1]

“Look here, here, underneath this black marble
A child is buried; if he had lived for one more recess
He would have risen from nature to the blackboard.
He was killed in a lesson of the state.”

http://www.jadaliyya.com/pages/index/22669/cemile-cagirga_a-girl-is-freezing-under-state-fire

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Attacks of Al-Nusra and other affiliated gang groups on Şêxmeqsûd (Sheikh Maqsoud) neighborhood of Aleppo continue. YPG Aleppo Commander Rêzan Rojhilat said the gang groups attacking the neighborhood since the first day of the Eid are fully supported by the Turkish state.

YPG Aleppo Commander Rêzan Rojhilat told ANHA News Agency that a meeting took place between the YPG and the Operation Room to Liberate Aleppo in order to protect the civilians from being harmed in the ongoing attacks of Al-Nusra affiliated groups on Şêxmeqsûd.

http://anfenglish.com/kurdistan/ypg-commander-turkish-officers-conduct-the-attacks-on-sexmeqsud

YPG take control of a transition route used by Al-Nusra in Aleppo

http://anfenglish.com/kurdistan/ypg-take-control-of-a-transition-route-used-by-al-nusra-in-aleppo

Demirtaş: Think about what they could do to the alive

HDP Co-President Selahattin Demirtaş answered reporters' questions at Atatürk Airport as he returned to Istanbul from Frankfurt in the afternoon.

Regarding the savagery committed by Turkish state forces against Hacı Lokman Birlik in Şırnak, Demirtaş said; “Think about what they-who do this to a dead- could do to the alive. Those who did this have no honour, nor does the government or the Prime Minister.”

HDP Co-President strongly criticized the execution of Hacı Lokman Birlik who was later dragged behind a police vehicle through the streets, saying; “This is an inhuman case and savagery as humanity is trampled on and dragged on the ground. The Prime Minister's remarks are far away being satisfactory. It is another shame that he almost accuses the one being dragged by police. In addition, this is just a case recorded by a camera. Similar cases and incidents are taking place there almost every day. Think about what they-who do that to a dead- could do to the alive. I do not mean that all security forces act like that but this is more or less what they do to the people, just like what they have done for years. It is just that the western part of the country is not aware of all these.”

Demirtaş stressed that the Minister of the Interior must resign from duty if he had some honour and dignity, adding; "He could have reacted to this savagery at least. They have no honour, nor does the government or the Prime Minister."

http://anfenglish.com/kurdistan/demirtas-think-about-what-they-could-do-to-the-alive

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More Kobanê people are turning back home since their leave after the beginning of intense ISIS attacks on 15 September 2014. As many as 175 thousand residents of the town have turned back home during the past 9 months.

The mainly Kurdish Kobanê town of West Kurdistan, Rojava, had a population of 250 thousand before the beginning of the civil war in Syria, which rose up to 450 thousand with the immigrants it allowed from Aleppo, Damascus, Humus, Deraa, Dêr a Zor, İdlib and Raqqa as the conflict got deeper in the following periods.

A large number of inhabitants were forced to migrate to Bakûrê (North) Kurdistan as they faced a threat of massacre due to the heavy attacks ISIS gangs launched with all their forces and heavy weaponry on 15 September last year.

http://anfenglish.com/kurdistan/175-thousand-kobane-people-turned-back-home-in-the-last-9-months

Reports are coming through that a number of gang members are now fleeing to Turkey after the intensifying Russian airstrikes against ISIS positions in Syria.

http://anfenglish.com/news/isis-groups-fleeing-syria-take-refuge-in-turkey

Iraqi Kurds’ protests over economic crisis turn violent

Protesters have hurled stones and scuffled with riot police in the second largest city in Iraq's Kurdish north, in the most intense show of discontent since an economic crisis hit the region.
Iraqi Kurds, PKK rivals have one common enemy

Teachers, hospital workers and other public sector employees took to the streets on Thursday and went on strike for a week, demanding their salaries from the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG), which are three months in arrears.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/10/iraqi-kurds-protests-economic-crisis-turn-violent-151008155126148.html

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Speaking to reporters in Istanbul before leaving for Ankara in the wake of today's massacre of demonstrators for peace, HDP Co-President Selahattin Demirtaş said the bomb attack came during a period of debates of an imminent ceasefire.

Demirtaş said “We are facing a state mindset that became a mafia, murderer and a serial killer.”

'RIOT POLICE MOBILIZE INSTEAD OF AMBULANCES'

Pointing out that police forces attacked the scene with tear gas soon after the incident and hindered the access of ambulances, Demirtaş said it was not ambulances but riot police that mobilized after the massacre in the heart of the Turkish capital. “It is obvious that there is an intention to increase the number of deaths. And now representatives of the government and the Prime Minister will say 'maintain your common sense' in our faces, while the police forces under their command attack the wounded people. What sort of a government has this become as its police fire tear gas on the people, just like what happened in Diyarbakır? I do not know what kind of a bomb has caused this massacre but it was definitely a malicious one. A highly effective bomb was used here to ensure a high number of casualties, as was the case in Suruç and Diyarbakır. The forces behind this massacre will not be revealed either, because there is an explicit force behind it, just like in Diyarbakır and Suruç”

http://anfenglish.com/news/demirtas-the-state-has-become-a-mafia-and-serial-killer

Dozens killed as twin explosions hit demonstrators for peace in Ankara

Two explosions have hit the area of thousands who gathered outside Ankara railway station for a peace rally organised by KESK, DİSK, TMMOB and TTB.

Reports say over 30 people have lost their lives and some a hundred have been wounded.

http://anfenglish.com/news/dozens-killed-as-twin-explosions-hit-demonstrators-for-peace-in-ankara

Bild : An online video showed the moment one of the blasts at the peace rally in Ankara

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/10/explosions-hit-turkey-ankara-peace-march-151010073827607.html

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A total of 516 people are being treated in hospitals across Turkish capital Ankara where twin blasts have left at least 86 people dead earlier today.

http://anfenglish.com/news/516-people-treated-in-hospitals-in-ankara

Thousands rally to mourn Ankara bombing victims

Thousands of people have attended a rally in Ankara under heavy security to remember the at least 95 people killed in twin bombings in the Turkish capital.

The demonstrators on Sunday filled Sihhiye Square in central Ankara, close to the site of Saturday's blasts outside the city's train station, with some shouting anti-government slogans.

http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2015/10/thousands-rally-mourn-ankara-bombing-victims-151011103242225.html

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Yunus Emre Alagöz, elder brother of Suruç suicide bomber Şeyh Abdurrahman Alagöz from Adıyaman community, and Mustafa Dokumacı stand at the centre of likely suspects with regards to the Ankara massacre.

While the bloody bomb attack in Turkish capital Ankara grabs attention with similarities to the previous suicide attacks in Diyarbakır on June 5 and in Suruç on July 20, it came out that the names and photographs of both main suspects had appeared on the list of 16 suicide bomber suspects given to police two months ago.

This emerging truth brings into question if police directorate has still taken no action against these 16 people who had been sought on suspicion of future involvement in probable suicide attacks.

http://anfenglish.com/special/police-knew-about-the-suicide-bombers-two-months-ago

Witnesses: Police attack increased the number of casualties in Ankara

Witnesses of the massacre in Ankara told that the police attack soon after the blasts increased the number of casualties, saying; “As if already prepared in advance, police started to attack the people after the blasts. Everything was being put into practice in a planned manner.”

In addition to thousands from across Turkey and Kurdistan cities, hundreds of people from Mersin had also gone to Turkish capital Ankara to join Saturday's Peace Rally which was targeted by a bloody bomb attack that left around a hundred people dead and hundreds of others wounded. Six of the hundreds going from Mersin also lost their lives in the twin blasts, and dozens of others were wounded.

HDP Mezitli district co-chair Nursel Demir, HDP members Dilan İvrendi and Fadile Dayan talked to ANF about the deadly blasts and the following police attack on the people still in the shock of the deadly attack.

http://anfenglish.com/news/witnesses-police-attack-increased-the-number-of-casualties-in-ankara

9-year-old child murdered by police in Amed's Sur district

According to the statement, police murdered 9-year-old Helin Şen who was hit by three bullets in the head earlier today.

http://anfenglish.com/kurdistan/9-year-old-child-murdered-by-police-in-amed-s-sur-district

US-backed Syrian Kurdish militia joins new military alliance

Syria's leading Kurdish militia and several Arab rebel groups that have fought alongside it have formalized their alliance in a new group called the Syrian Democratic Forces.

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2015/Oct-12/318565-us-backed-syrian-kurdish-militia-joins-new-military-alliance.ashx

Iraqi Kurdish protests urge regional president to quit

Four people have been killed in two days of demonstrations in Iraqi Kurdistan, as outrage over unpaid salaries have morphed into large scale protests for the regional president's resignation.

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/iraqi-kurdish-protests-urge-regional-president-quit-603973836

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More terrifying images have emerged of Hacı Lokman Birlik whose dead body was dragged behind an armored vehicle after his execution by police in Şırnak earlier this month.

The savage torture perpetrated on Birlik's body was first exposed by a photo circulated on social media, causing huge public indignation.

Several days later, as reactions still continued, a video footage was circulated again on social media, taken from inside the police vehicle that dragged his body in the streets of Şırnak. The footage taken by police themselves inside the vehicle was abound with heavy swearwords insulting his body, his family, his folk and his existence. “There is no such a thing”, say the policemen in great happiness and bravery as they shoot the video.

http://anfenglish.com/kurdistan/new-terrifying-images-emerge-of-haci-birlik

Palestinian teacher who survived Israeli attacks on Gaza dies in Ankara blast

Ahmad al-Khaldi survived repeated Israeli attacks and years of siege while growing up in Gaza’s Jabaliya refugee camp, only to be killed by the bombing of a pro-Kurdish peace rally in the Turkish capital Ankara on Saturday.

Twin blasts killed more than 120 people and injured hundreds more.

Al-Khaldi had moved to Turkey two and a half years earlier to study and teach, according to the Palestinian news website Donia al-Watan.

Ahmad’s father, Mahmoud al-Khaldi, received the news of his son’s death from a friend in Qatar, the article states.

He then confirmed the information with the Palestinian Authority embassy in Turkey, telling them that the family’s only wish was that Ahmad’s body should be returned to Gaza for burial.

Mahmoud added that his son had been planning to return to Gaza to get married and that he had missed his family and home in Palestine – but had been prevented from returning by Egypt’s near-constant closure of the Rafah crossing, the only route for the vast majority of Palestinians to enter or exit Gaza.

https://electronicintifada.net/blogs/sarah-irving/palestinian-teacher-who-survived-israeli-attacks-gaza-dies-ankara-blast

Turkish Armed Forces have shelled the cemeteries of Kurdish freedom fighters in Lice, on Mount Cudi and Mount Herekol.

KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) Executive Council Co-Presidency has two days ago declared inaction on condition that no attacks are carried out against the Kurdish movement, people and guerrilla forces. KCK said that; “During this process, our guerrilla forces will avoid conducting planned actions, will be engaged in no activities apart from maintaining its current position, and make no attempts to hinder or harm the exercise of a fair and equal election.”

http://anfenglish.com/kurdistan/turkey-responds-to-kck-s-inaction-by-bombing-cemeteries-of-guerrillas

Political crisis deepens in South Kurdistan

While the political crisis in South Kurdistan deepens as KDP forces prevented the president of the Parliament, Dr. Yusuf Mıhemed to enter Hewler (Erbil) yesterday. Three parties in Hewler, PUK, Islamic Unity and Islamic Society are now preparing to hold a meeting today to discuss over adopting a common attitude against the developments. PUK deputy secretary general Kosret Resul, chair of Islamic Unity Party Mıhemed Ferec and Kurdistan Islamic Society Party chair Eli Bapir will attend the meeting to discuss the recent crisis and to develop a common attitude by three parties.

http://anfenglish.com/kurdistan/political-crisis-deepens-in-south-kurdistan

Life brought to a halt in Ankara as thousands join the general strike

While the two-day general strike witnessed large participation across Turkey, thousands of people and workers took to streets in Ankara where Saturday's twin blasts claimed the lives of over a hundred people and left as many wounded.

The general strike declared by four main trade unions in Turkey in protest at the massacre in Ankara has witnessed massive participation across the country, bringing the life to a halt.

The slogans of “Thief-Murderer Erdoğan”, “The dictator will be defeated, the people will win” were resonated in all the streets of Ankara as thousands flocked to the streets in the city, vowing to bring the AKP government and Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan to account.

http://anfenglish.com/news/life-brought-to-a-halt-in-ankara-as-thousands-join-the-general-strike