#syrian kurds

[melikemordemjaponi]

✽In the Kurdish region of northeast Syria, a women-only village called Jinwar or ‘women's space’ has become a refuge for women displaced by war and domestic violence

Via Reuters (+video) 

✽Suriye'nin kuzeydoğusundaki Kürt bölgesinde, Jinwar ya da 'kadın mekânı' olarak adlandırılan ve sadece kadınlardan oluşan bir köy, savaş ve aile içi şiddet nedeniyle yerinden edilen kadınlar için bir sığınak haline geldi.

Reuters aracılığıyla (+video)

✽シリア北東部のクルド人居住地域にある、ジンワール(クルド語/女性の居場所)と呼ばれる女性だけの村が、戦争や家庭内暴力で避難した女性たちの駆け込み寺となっている。

ロイター通信より(動画とも)

#kurds #kurdistan #kurdish #news #human rights #syrian kurds #rojava #jin jiyan azadi #woman life freedom #syria #northern syria #سوريا syria

[rednblacksalamander]

Looks like Turkey's going after Rojava again. Can NATO just kick these fascist bastards out already?

#nato #turkey #rojava #syrian kurds #kobanê #ypg #erdoğan #political cartoon

[aliz5karga]

Fuck the government.

I'm still angry. I'm still not surprised. I'm still holding my tears since it happened. We've lost more than 40,000 people. More than 30,000 died in Turkey and more than 5,000 died in Syria...

From all those who were killed in Turkey, how many of them would still be among us if the government stopped neglecting us and spent our fucking money to build and improve our infrastructure ? The « Earthquake tax » that was created after the İzmit earthquake (1999), all the money we gave since it was invented – where the fuck did it went ? We're talking about BILLIONS of dollars ! Where did it go ?!

...Oh ! Yeah, right, it was given to the State's friends who then proceeded to build crappy buildings – blatantly lying to people, to convince them to live in their unsafe buildings, by saying that they were earthquake-resistant when it wasn't true. All those people, from the government to their greedy and corrupted friends, THEY KILLED THOSE WHO DIED IN THE RUBBLE OF THEIR HOMES. And to top it all, Erdoğan has said that all those deaths and destroyed buildings “couldn't have been prevented”... Bffr. Earthquakes don't kill people, buildings do. If this government wasn't so greedy and corrupted, if Erdoğan wasn't so self obsessed and selfish, if those corporations weren't as shitty as the State, many of those we lost would still be among us right now.

Also, one thing we shouldn't forget is how systemic racism also played a role in this case. The majority of Kurds in this country lives in the South. Now, only people who choose to turn a blind eye to this issue will pretend that it isn't true/real, but the Kurdish community has always been a marginalized/oppressed community in Turkey. I mean, until 1991, Kurdish was officially a banned language and even after its legalization, there's still people who are persecuted by the authorities and the State solely over their Kurdish identity. I'll always talk about that man who was arrested in 2009 and spent the rest of his life in prison just because he spoke Kurdish. He died in prison because he spoke his mother tongue.

And even during this crisis, they still found a way to be racist. The government announced translation services in 7 languages except Kurdish. They've translated crucial earthquake information in multiple languages, including Pashto... except in Kurdish, when those who are mainly affected by earthquakes are Kurds.

They failed them. Many cities had to wait for days to finally receive aid when we all know that the first hours are crucial. Many cities were simply abandoned by the State. And let's talk about when the government thought that their ego was more important than lives : they restricted access to social media, like Twitter, when it helped rescuers to locate people stuck under the rubble. They also arrested people just because they dared criticize the government. Dozens have been arrested over "provocative posts". That's exactly what they did during the 2021 Turkey wildfires. Because just like back then, the government did a poor job. They failed, once again.

They don't give a damn about us. They never did. They blatantly show how much they don't see us as people but only as tools and workers. Where's the money going ? The money we keep giving to this stupid government?

We all know the answer, don't we ? It goes in Erdoğan's and his puppets' pockets. He spend OUR money on his stupid palace, and when he feels generous, he gives OUR money to his little friends. « 7-days national grief » my ass. He doesn't fucking care. He's doing this because the elections are coming soon and he wanna stay in power forever. Everything THEY, all the political parties, are doing isn't genuine – it all has to do with the incoming elections. It's an opportunity for them.

When will we put an end to this ? When will this stop ? When will enough be enough ?

PLEASE IF YOU DECIDE TO DONATE MONEY, DONATE TO KURDISH ASSOCIATIONS TOO (ex. Heyva Sor)

By the way, let's not forget Syria. They're also badly affected by the earthquakes. It's very hard to send help to those affected by the earthquakes because of the Assad regime and the Turkish gov. The sanctions against Syria also doesn't help. Talking about Syria, guess who decided it was the right time to bomb Syria? Isr*el, of course... They killed civilians and destroyed a historical building. It doesn't matter if it was owned by Iran-backed militias. it's just NOT the right time. Fuck you, Isr*el.

#turkey #help syria #syria and turkey #türkiye #earthquake in turkey #earthquake #turkeyearthquake #türkiye deprem #deprem #hatay #syrian kurds #kurds #kurdish #kurdistan #erdoğan #turkish

[kirstythejetblackgoldfish]

#i've always felt this is an inevitability #remember October 2019? #Syrian Kurds were hugging Syrian soldiers #and Syrian Kurds said they preferred the Syrian army over the Turkish army #Kurds #Syrian Kurds #Syria #Alexander Lavrentiev #Russia #Turkey #Turkiye #Türkiye #Iran #Astana #Kazakhstan #friendly reminder that Kurds are a people and not just one political faction

[navramanan]

Aquiring knowledge -> getting filled with frustration and anger and dread -> wanting to stay informed regardless -> aquiring knowledge -> getting filled with frustration etc etc

#i am fucking talking to the void and vallahi i WIIIIISSSHHHH i had a proper oulet to let out my frustration #but FFFFFFUUUUUCCCCKKKKK #nothing scarred me and showed me how fucking alone we were in our struggle and grief than the muslim world's reaction to rojava's invasion #in 2019. you know ok i know kurdistan gets little media coverage usually bc it's not relevant to american interest #but the invasion 2019 was HEAVILY covered by western media as it was the direct result of trump withdrawing the troops #and having a phone call with kerrrrrrrdogan saying hey you can invade now #so there was ZERO reason or possibility the muslim world wouldnt see what was happening #it was EVERYWHERE it got great western media coverage #but when i saw big muslim news accounts staying either silent OR siding with turkey i felt so fucking enraged and disturbed #and rejected. in turn there also werent individual muslims showing support as big crowds #like obv there were some here and there but not as a collective. they either sided with turkey or simply didnt care #you have to clock that. i cant say how many died but hundreds of thousands were displaced #turkey USED FUCKING WHITE PHOSPHORUS. WHICH IS A WAR CRIME. IT'S A CHEMICAL WEAPON #they literally said theyd create a strip of land to move syrian refugees there. arab refugees on kurdish land to change the demographic #and every fucking one went yeah that's fine nothing wrong with it. vallahi those people's plights are on you #and allah will ask. dont think he wont. while we were screaming for the muslim world to see us #they in turn pointed there fingers at us. said turkey was fighting terror. said they wouldnt hurt civilians #but what ever do you guys know what it's like to scream and scream but have no one bet an eye? #that's how i feel. that's how we kurds feel #man fuck off whatever i want to strangle someone #nesi rants

[etccsy]

Operation Claw-Sword

Four armored vehicles flying the American flag, accompanied by combat units of the Syrian Democratic Forces, headed on December 2, 2022, to the vicinity of the Al-Malikiyah "Derik" area in northeastern Syria, with the aim of monitoring the Turkish-Syrian

By, Issam KhouryThe Czech-Slovak Institute of Oriental Studies Dec 08, 2022 Four armored vehicles flying the American flag, accompanied by combat units of the Syrian Democratic Forces, headed on December 2, 2022, to the vicinity of the Al-Malikiyah “Derik” area in northeastern Syria, with the aim of monitoring the Turkish-Syrian border, and a similar patrol went to monitor the Syrian-Iraqi…

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#Al-Yaum TV #Democratic self-administration in northeastern Syria #Democratic Union Party #Hussein Omar #iran #Kurd #Kurdistan Workers&039; Party (PKK) #Manbij #Mazloum Abdi #National Army #PKK #PYD #Qandil Mountains #Russia and Ukraine #Russian military police forces #Russian-American #Saleh Muslim #syria #Syrian Democratic Forces #Tell Rifaat #Turkey #بشار الاسد #تركيا #روسيا #سوريا #عصام خوري

[dougielombax]

Just leaving this here.

Feel free to reblog.

#dougie rambles #political crap #report #syria #syrian civil war #north and east Syria #rojava #assyria #bethnahrin #kurdistan #kurds #yazidis #assyrians #turkey #fuck Erdogan #looting #terrorism #war crimes #reblog this #reblog the shit out of this

[auroraluciferi]

President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan appears poised to launch a renewed invasion by Turkish forces of democratic autonomous zones in North and East Syria. Erdoğan’s repeated threats of military action raise fears of a resurgence of ISIS and pose an existential threat to the decade-old experiment in eco-feminist, multi-cultural democracy known as the Rojava revolution.

This week, Erdoğan demanded that the United States withdraw its few remaining troops from North and East Syria, where they act like a small protectorate for the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria, one of the political structures that governs the Rojava region through a system of “ democratic confederalism.” This decentralized system is built on empowering local communities and representative councils that include dozens of political parties and emphasizes the leadership of women.

The Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) is a multi-ethnic coalition of militias that provides security for the autonomous region and is backed by the U.S. in a successful campaign against ISIS. Erdoğan considers leftist Kurdish formations within the SDF to be terrorists linked to Kurdish guerrillas who have fought Turkey on its border with Iraqi Kurdistan for decades.

#2022 #kurdistan #kurds #kurdish #independence #rojava #syria #turkey #iraq #erdogan #recep tayyip erdogan #democracy #democratic #confederalism #syrian democratic forces #sdf #revolution #eco #feminist #feminism #erdogan is a murderer

[melikemordemjaponi]

✽A cat rescued from under rubble after a massive earthquake hit south-eastern Turkey and north-western Syria.

*Image was shared on the internet.

✽Türkiye'nin güneydoğusunu ve Suriye'nin kuzeybatısını vuran büyük depremin ardından enkaz altından kurtarılan bir kedi.

*Resim internette paylaşıldı.

✽トルコ南東部とシリア北西部を襲った大規模な地震で､がれきの下から救助された猫｡

*画像はインターネットで拡散されたものです 

#kurds #kurdistan #kurdish #news #human rights #turkey #syria earthquake #cute cats #syrian kurds #earthquake #deprem #turkey earthquake

[germiyahu]

Maybe an ethnostate is an inherently dangerous and immoral idea. What has happened when other people tried to establish ethnostates?

Well firstly, Israel is not an ethnostate. There is no equivalent policy of Israelification or Judaification as there was (tbh is) with Russification, or historic and contemporary Arabization, Modi's attempts at Hindutva, Erdogan's extreme backsliding into ethnonationalism, etc.

Israel is a liberal democratic state. Some Arabs rejected citizenship, as is their right to do so on principled grounds. But most other groups who are not Israeli Jews have implicitly accepted the Social Contract of a modern liberal democratic state. They receive equal rights under the Law (which is enforceable), and they're aware that they're not the majority and that not every aspect of their culture will cater to them or center them.

Most of the country coming to a standstill on Shabbat could be a sign of an ethnostate, but if municipalities don't want to observe Shabbat, there are no enforceable laws that allow anyone to stop them from ignoring Shabbat. And if there are/were, they were much more frequently levied against other Jews.

Israel has historically not cared if its non Jewish citizens practice their own faiths, speak their own languages, observe their own cultural traditions. Jews do not proselytize. If Israel truly were an ethnostate we'd see a repeat of the Edomites being forcibly converted by John Hyrcanus. The reason this hasn't happened is not because Jews are "disgusted" by Palestinians, for the record. A majority of Israeli Jews look identical to Palestinians and historically spoke Judeo-Arabic. It's simply not necessary for any government to function to pursue an assimilationist policy. It's not a priority among any stream of Judaism or any sub-cultural group of Jews.

People's discomfort with a Jewish majority state, that utterly and thoughtlessly centers Jewish culture (through symbols, the calendar, the weekly/monthly/yearly cycle, holidays, etc.) is rooted in antisemitism. Because it's abhorrent to see Jews running the show. It's new, it's weird, it's even a little insulting. It's not the Natural Order of things. It's unfair. This is a primal Judenhass gene being activated, and it applies to everything related to Jews. There's an inherent hypocrisy in most people when it comes to Jews.

Even in a country like Japan which is considered by fascists to be an Ethnostate, that belies the diversity of the country. An ethnostate is not a state with a majority or supermajority of one ethnicity, nor is it a state that has implicit biases toward that majority ethnic group. An ethnostate must legally uphold the supremacy of the ethnic group in question and at best make no attempt to extend equal rights to any minorities. At worst, it will attempt to assimilate them or exterminate them.

Secondly, what happens in real genuine ethnostates? Well to name a few examples: the Apartheid system of Imperial Russia, with the accompanying pogroms that led to the collapse of the Pale of Settlement which ushered in the largest Jewish migration in history. The effects of this system are still being felt today, not just by Jews. The whole reason Putin and most Russians feel entitled to Ukrainian land and feel threatened by a Ukrainian identity is because Russification considered Russians Belarussians and Ukrainians the same people (which meant Belarussians and Ukrainians were to be forcibly assimilated by Russians).

Here's another example: Kurds in Turkey are still not considered a legally recognized ethnic group. They can't even spell their own names correctly because they have letters in their alphabet that do not occur in Turkish, and Turkish is the only language of state (Turkey as a modern state was heavily influenced by France and it shows). Kurds are routinely suspected of being PKK members and whole towns were bulldozed to make room for Syrian refugees, as a collective punishment against the Kurdish insurgency (which restarted amid the war with ISIS).

Saudi Arabia is an ethnostate, as are most of the Gulf Monarchies. Citizenship is a privilege only enjoyed by the Khaleeji Arabs, even though they're a minority in most of their own countries. Palestine is also an ethnostate, citizenship and rights are only offered to those who are deemed Palestinians. Nobody else is allowed to live there. The Israelis who illegally live in the West Bank have to be propped up by a military occupation and have to have Israeli laws stretched over the border to encompass them, because they would not ever be allowed to even live in the West Bank, much less be afforded any rights or citizenship. This is not just Palestine's fault, this was a precedent set by Jordan. The oldest of all Jewish communities in Palestine were all cleansed by Jordanian troops, banished from their lands and never allowed to return.

I hope you can see that ethnostates are not very compatible with liberal democracies, as liberal democracies by definition and by tradition have universal human rights (at least in the West). It is authoritarian and totalitarian regimes that typically strive for an ethnostate. There are shades of ethnostatitude in democracies, such as France, which uses civic identity as the privileged "ethnicity," and that civic identity happens to be French, which means everyone must be culturally French and speak French. Though it's not violently enforced there is a state policy of ignoring all minorities and their cultures. And of course Turkey, which has always been a flawed democracy, but is increasingly becoming dictatorial and wouldn't you know, the more authoritarian it becomes, the more Turkishness is a central component of Erdogan's goals and policies.

Are there Israelis who want Israel to be an ethnostate? Why yes, but are they significant or relevant beyond appointing Ben-Gvir as a token gesture to this radical fringe? Not really, though there's an alarming capacity for them to increase their numbers. Is any of that relevant to the daily functions and moral "core" of Israel as a nation? Not at all. If you don't judge any other state by it's worst most obnoxious most supremacist actors, why judge Israel that way? Is it those Judenhass Genes again?

#israel #palestine #antisemitism #ethnostate

[kirstythejetblackgoldfish]

#Ayman Sousan #Syria #Russia #Turkey #Turkiye #Astana #Kazakhstan #Saudi Arabia #Qatar #Kurds #Syrian Kurds

[ameliarating]

people i thought were normal and kind are just straight up engaging in atrocity denial because they don't like the 'side' it happened to. like it's a fucking sports match. some of them are so focused on saying the right thing for internet slacktivism points that they've just lost it. I cannot understand. i am syrian-american and i could never get them to care about the atrocities committed by assad and putin there, but now they share video of syrian children and claim to mourn and cry because they seem to think every arab is interchangeable. i am lost.

I am so, so sorry. The Syrian people and their cause have absolutely been victim to this "sports team" mentality. Assad and Putin are anti-American therefore they must be... champions of freedom?

It is much easier to live in a world where there is a side where everyone is wondrous and good and a side where everyone is evil and complicit and this has never been a world we've lived in. Certainly when politicians, dictators, and other people who amass weapons and power make their alliances based on their own ability to hold onto power rather than out of any sense of public good for their people, let alone "the" people in general.

I truly hope that one day we live in a world where all peoples of the Levant and elsewhere - Syrian Arab and Kurd and Israeli Jewish and Druze and Bedouin and Palestinian and Lebanese of all religious and ethnic communities and everyone else completely - are recognized as human beings who are due the honor of living in peace and security and equality, in a land that is recognized as their homeland (even if it is a homeland shared by many), no matter what government claims to represent them.

Remember - the internet is full of people who love to pick sides. But there are also so many people who may be quieter online and active on the ground who care and care deeply and are trying to make the world better.

And if people are interested - here's a way to help out families and children directly impacted by the earthquakes in Syria and Turkey.

[night-rhea]

You know what makes my blood boil? Seeing people to say "Oh do not donate Turkey they will not help the minorities here" "The government deserved that"

Fuck you from bottom of my heart. All the lives we lost in these 10 city, all the lives STİLL waiting to be rescued under crashed buildings, all the voices say "Can anybody hear my voice?", are PEOPLE. Our people. No matter what they call theirselves Turk Kurd Syrian Muslim Ateist Christian they all causes same pain in our heart, all the soldiers, volunteers, the rescue teams of our own and the ones came from other countries works tiredlessly for everyone equally.

Just today 3000 people died. İf you cant understand what does that means, shut the fuck up.

#turkey #earthquake #turkey earthquake

[fursasaida]

when you know every last prominent online ~leftist intellectual~ who threw Syrians under the bus out of a childish need to preserve the idea that because Asad is currently on the outs with the US he's some kind of socialist liberator vanguard-bearer* and therefore actually bought the idea that the uprising was some CIA op shit, seeing those exact same people say and write perfectly good things about Palestine is this extra dose of infuriating because my first instinct is that I want to share them, I want to pass them on, but then I see the name and I fucking refuse to amplify these people even if their broken clocks are right today.

and meanwhile on twitter people are taking images of barrel-bombed Syrian cities, bleeding and crying Syrian children, and claiming they're from Gaza or even from Israel.

I absolutely don't begrudge Palestinians a shred of rhetoric or visibility. they need it. genocide is underway. it just makes me want to throw up to watch a certain kind of online clout-chaser exploit the complete abandonment of Syrians for the umpteenth time in order to clout-chase about Palestine. and people who either understandably don't know who they are, or who do and should fucking know better but apparently don't care or even buy it, laud them for it. twelve years of these people building themselves up on the bodies of Syrians whose memories they insult out loud and implicitly, in word and image and silence, and calling themselves the left.

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*Asad ran black sites for the CIA, tried his damnedest to get in good with the US and Europe in the 2000s and pivoted back toward Iran only when it became clear that wouldn't work, and even before his failson antics his daddy joined the US's Gulf War coalition for money and free rein to keep occupying Lebanon. and somehow it's worth building an entire alternate reality to claim that he's a pillar of anti-imperial resistance, for...what, exactly? what does anybody win except smug certainty. I fucking hate it here. I always have to soothe myself by remembering when Dana al-Kurd had the integrity to come out and admit that she used to hold this position and then realized the sheer cognitive dissonance involved and changed her mind. sucks that I have exactly that one example to go back to.

[dougielombax]

Just leaving a few articles here.

Feel free to reblog.

Feel free to reblog this.

I’ve said it before but Turkey’s intervention in and occupation of northern Syria is just an imperialist vanity project.

#dougie rambles #political crap #middle east #turkey #Syria #Assyria #bethnahrin #Levant #fuck Erdogan #syrian civil war #war crimes #terrorism #anti imperialism #anti fascist #anti fascism #leftism #dawronoye #kurds #reblog this #reblog the shit out of this

[fr0ggs]

made a simple call script for calling congresspeople about the numerous genocides taking place worldwide currently, urging them to respond and call for intervention/ceasefire. feel free to use this, and if anyone has any advice for additions, please let me know. please do what you can, the people will be free.

 Hello, my name is [name, optional], and I am a constituent of [congressperson]. I am calling about the numerous genocides happening worldwide. At this point in time, you are likely already aware of the genocide of Palestinian people, but there are many more genocides happening in the world, and the overlooking of such happenings, while innocents continue to suffer, must end.

Currently, Congolese, Armenian, Tigrayan, Yemeni, Guatemalan, Rohingya, Haitian, Native American, Kashmiri, Kurd, Sudanese, Ukrainian, Argentinian, Afghan, Moroccan, Libyan, Syrian, Lebanese, and many more people are experiencing genocide (or close risk of it, according to genocidewatch.com), ethnic cleansing, displacement, and the like. Also currently, the United States government continues to be not only complicit, but supportive of these attacks out of ignorance and selfish benefit.

In order to maintain current support, it is dire that you side with the people. Please do research on each and take a look into doing whatever possible to save the innocent people around the world from living a life of constant abuse and murder. Thank you for your time."

#keep eyes on sudan #keep eyes on congo #free palestine #free tigray #free yemen #free haiti #free kashmir #free armenia #free guatemala #free rohingya #native american rights #free congo #free sudan