Solidarity with Kurdistan Against Turkey's Invasion Threats
This article originally appeared in Turkish at ETHA News Agency on November 7, 2021 Turkey’s government has declared its intention to open yet another front in its genocidal war on Kurdistan, this time allegedly fixing its sights on the northern Syrian city of Kobane in an attempt to link the occupied territories it holds as a result of its 2018 invasion of Afrin and 2019 occupation of Serekaniye and Gire Spi. Unable to progress in its war of annihilation against the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) in South Kurdistan (northern Iraq), even with the apparent use of banned chemical weapons, the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan has once more turned its attention to Rojava. At this historic moment, it is imperative for all communist, socialist, democratic, and anti-fascist movements to mobilise in defence of Kurdistan. The People’s Protection Units (YPG) and Women’s Protection Units (YPJ), as well as their allied communist detachments from the International Freedom Battalion (IFB), a
