Appel urgent international : Sauvez Hasankeyf !
La Turquie attaque la guérilla kurde en Irak sans que Bagdad et Erbil réagissent
KURDISTAN DU SUD / IRAK – Depuis plusieurs jours, l’armée turque a intensifié ses attaques contre le Parti des travailleurs du Kurdistan (PKK) dans la région kurde de Qandil, dans le nord de l’Irak. Pour les Kurdes, ces attaques sont directement liées aux élections municipales d’Istanbul qui doivent avoir lieu 23 juin prochain.
Attaquer les Kurdes, à l’intérieur ou à l’extérieur des frontières turques, est devenu une routine pour le pouvoir turc chaque fois qu’il sent son pouvoir menacé, notamment lors d’élections. En effet, le parti d’Erdogan a essuyé un revers historique aux dernières élections municipales du 31 mars 2019, perdant plusieurs grandes villes du pays, dont Istanbul. Même s’il a réussi à faire annuler les résultats pour Istanbul, rien ne dit que les nouvelles élections ne seront pas une gifle encore plus cinglante pour lui.
Le site d’information RFI rapporte que cette agression turque au Kurdistan d’Irak se fait sans que le gouvernement central de Bagdad et le gouvernement régional kurde (GRK ou KRG en anglais) critiquent vraiment cette incursion sur le sol irakien car la Turquie aurait promis d’aider à la reconstruction de l’Irak…
L’article de RFI est à lire ici
4 000 habitants d’Idlib transférés à Afrin
AFRIN – L’occupation turque a installé plus de 4 000 habitants d’Idlib à Afrin après avoir déplacé de force les habitants indigènes de la région.
Depuis l’occupation du canton d’Afrin le 18 mars 2018, l’occupation turque et ses mercenaires pratiquent des politiques de changement démographique et de déplacement de la population autochtone, en particulier les Kurdes. Les observateurs déclarent que l’occupation turque pratique la politique de nettoyage ethnique contre la population d’Afrin.
Après l’occupation du canton d’Efrin, l’occupation turque a déplacé plus de 350 000 civils, qui survivent dans le canton d’al-Shahba, mais les pratiques d’occupation ne se sont pas arrêtées aux déplacements et aux changements démographiques.
L’occupation turque et ses mercenaires ont installé à Afrin environ 200 000 personnes de diverses régions de Syrie, en particulier de Damas, Homs, Daraa et leurs campagnes.
Selon des sources fiables, l’occupation turque a installé plus de 4 000 civils originaires d’Idlib, pour la plupart des familles des mercenaires de Heyat Tharir al-Sham (HTS, anciennement Jabhet al-Nosra) et d’autres gangs de mercenaires dans les villages et districts d’Afrin depuis début mai.
Les familles ont été installées dans les villages et centres des districts de Janders, Shera, Bulbul, Shia et Sherawa, après avoir chassé les populations autochtones de leurs maisons et vidé certains villages tels que Kokan Tahtani et Kokan Fokani dans le district de Mobata, Basota dans le district de Sherawa et Qazelbasha dans celui de Bulbul.
D’autre part, les sources ont confirmé qu’après l’établissement d’une base militaire, l’occupation turque avait construit une base pour hélicoptères dans le village de Darwish dans le district de Rajo, où la population a été déplacée de force par l’occupation.
YPJ internationalistes : Lettre ouverte à nos sœurs gauchistes du monde
Bureau d’information des combattantes internationalistes des YPJ
YPJ International Fighters Info Office
– An open letter to our leftist sisters of the World –
For thousands of years woman have been the subjects of oppression and domination by the male figure, in all different societies and cultures. Our society has been developed following the rules of the capitalist system using patriarchy and sexism as principle tools. We can see the result of this in the present day: Attacks on woman’s bodies are legitimized by laws, states, institutions, and with the help of the capitalist system, a war on women has been created. This cannot be ignored. Through the years, society has called us witches, hysterics, lunatics, weak… Society wants us to be submissive and silent. We have been locked up, killed, humiliated, and punished for the simple reason that we were born women. Is it so surprising that today, women all over the world are rising up? Women’s liberation is our priority. We cannot imagine a world free of oppression without getting rid of the first form of oppression and violence. Sisters from Argentina, Chiapas, Sudan, Europe, India, Afghanistan, Iraq and here in Northern Syria all share in this struggle. We are all connected by the same aim: a woman’s revolution.
In order to achieve this worldwide we would like to show you the approach of the Kurdish Women’s Movement, which was developed in a context with unique challenges, starting in a feudal system. Within the Military formation of the YPJ and YPG, our methods are clear. Power structures are carved out and used as a basis of operations. This approach includes a unit which is comprised of only women. We can see how women relate to each other, and how men relate to women in a revolutionary and liberatory way. A perfect example is: men cannot make decisions about women, but women can participate in decision making processes about men. Men have come to understand and trust women significantly—they know that women will never leave the struggle, that they are what guarantees the success of the revolution. Women’s words have the same weight as men’s in assemblies, and we wear the same uniforms. Another example is: women will not criticize or disagree with other woman in front of male comrades in a way that opens her up to being diminished by men or shows exploitable vulnerabilities to men, but instead will support each other until they are in an all female space where we can open up about the disagreements and discuss them, giving perspectives. Within military life there is no dating or sexual relations. This changes interactions between comrades because it changes the wants, needs and expectations that are put on women by men, and visa versa. Women are able to work with but are successfully autonomous from men. In these ways, we as women learn to respect and love ourselves and other women. This unity is in turn the basis for which men, the rest of the military, society, and the world will regard us. These new gender relations have been developed independently, Our construction of womanhood is not in reference to men.
Historically, war has been the prerogative of men, but this revolution is not. The monopoly of military strategy is not left to an all-male decision making process. Quite the opposite: as we have seen in the Raqqa operation, which was lead by a woman. The perspective of women adds much to the understanding of the armed struggle—it is clear to us that military victory and the liberation of land does not mark the end of the struggle—the real work is deeper than this and continues now.
A revolution is not a clear cut and simple resolution, it is an unceasing push forward together, one that continues even now. A real change comes from understanding our mistakes and the contradictions within ourselves. We are not immune to the influences of patriarchy, so when we struggle to deconstruct it, we should analyze our behaviors, and look for the shadows of patriarachy within ourselves as well, so as not to fall into its traps.
This different approach to liberation that we are learning here results in a kind of freedom we have never known before. In Western societies, the concept of freedom is presented as something highly individual. Individual freedoms are elevated above all else, and collective freedom is hardly part of the conversation. Women are encouraged by society, in seeking the respect of men, to separate ourselves from other women: to seek to be smarter, more assertive, more ambitious and to surpass other women. This competition divides our strength and wins us very little. Here, we seek liberation for women collectively. We understand that our freedom is inextricably tied to that of other women, and that we can only truly advance in our struggle for freedom together. By living together and learning to love each other truly, revolutionarily, we are able to become more free than any of us could be alone.
We do not reject men and surely count them among our comrades. We have a separate organization that operates autonomously. Working together with YPG, we push forward on this path to continue building the world we know is possible. Abdullah Ocalan, ideological leader of the Kurdish movement, said: “Liberating life is impossible without a radical woman’s revolution.” The Kurdish women have surely created a front against patriarchy worldwide which people from many ethnic, cultural, economic, political and national backgrounds have recognized as such and have joined with the knowledge that our struggles are all connected and cannot be pulled apart by borders.A beautiful new element emerges as a result of this: Hevalty. This is created when women live and struggle collectively towards the same revolutionary goal discussed above: Liberation of all women. Heval may translate as “comrade,” but to us it is much more. Hevalty among women is both a tactic to combat domination, and is itself the fruit of the women’s revolution. By intimately sharing our lives on every level, as we do in the YPJ, we destroy the isolation and individualism created and forced upon us by capitalism. Radical collective living turns each of us into a mirror, we see ourselves in the eyes of the other and are forced to confront our flaws, to utilize our strengths, and to learn to communicate honestly with each other. By knowing ourselves and each other, together we each build a more revolutionary personality.
comradry is a redefinition of the word love. We are reclaiming love from a capitalist and patriarchal world. Love is not what is sold in a store for Valentine ́s Day. Love is not a legal document given by the state, and it is not a pact made in a church. It is not women giving themselves to men. Love is women struggling together. Love is self defense, and defending each other. Love is building a new world where every woman can be safe and free. Love is discipline and hard work. It is revolutionary. This is comradry, the new love, and it is already spreading across the globe; uniting every woman and assuring them: you will never walk alone again.
YPJ International
27 may 2019 YPJ International Fighters Info Office
Le barreau d’Urfa : Les détenus soumis à la torture sexuelle à Halfeti
Barreau d’Urfa : La torture est systématique à Halfeti depuis 2015
TURQUIE. La journaliste kurde, Nurcan Baysal a été arrêtée
Hommage aux trois hommes d’affaires kurdes tués il y a 25 ans
TURQUIE – ISTANBUL – Les proches de Savaş Buldan, Hacı Karay et Adnan Yıldırım, trois hommes d’affaires kurdes enlevés et tués il y a 25 ans, se sont réunis devant leurs tombes pour leur rendre hommage.
Pervin Buldan, l’épouse de Savaş Buldan et la co-présidente du parti HDP, a déclaré que l’Etat turc leur devait des excuses et qu’ils allaient continuer leur lutte jusqu’à ce qu’ils les obtiennent.
Les cadavres de Savaş Buldan, Hacı Karay et Adnan Yıldırım ont été retrouvés le 3 juin 1984, deux jours après qu’ils ont été enlevés par la police turque devant un hôtel à Istanbul/Yeşilköy.
Par la suite, on appris que leurs noms figuraient sur la liste des hommes d’affaires kurdes à abattre.
En plus des enlèvements de Kurdes dans des villes turques, selon l’Association des droits de l’Homme (IHD), entre 1992 et 1996, 792 disparitions forcés et meurtres par l’État ont été signalés dans les régions kurdes de la Turquie.
PARIS. Le Festival des Films kurdes, édition 2019

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