Roza, a martyr of Garzan

Martyr Roza Garzan (Esma Çetin) joined the guerrilla ranks on 19 May 2015. She spent two years fighting before joining the caravan of martyrs in Garzan.

Her cousin, who is also in the guerrilla said: “She was my aunt’s daughter, we went to school together. She was particularly impressed by the Kobanê siege and liberation. We would discuss all the time and talk about what we should do, sometimes until the morning. She was unfamiliar with general party work and thinking, but she was eager to learn and understand. She wanted to come and take part in youth work and participate actively, but she couldn’t because of her family. The family was not anti-party, but they did not want her to take part in such activities because of the repression of the enemy and the policies it developed.”

Five days after Roza joined the guerrilla ranks, her cousin came from Turkey to Kurdistan and also joined. She added: “I went for training as a new fighter and so was she. Roza was the only woman out of 25 people in that training camp. She came and hugged as soon as she saw me, and said ‘I knew you would come’. We trained for about 10 days. Sometimes we we saying to each other ‘why didn’t we come and join before. We could have come and join rather than talk and argue until the morning’. After the training, I was sent to a different field, and Comrade Roza was assigned to train many female comrades who came in another training period to be opened, and to share what she had learned with them. After a while, the opportunity to see each other again arrived. Since it is open to learning, friends sent her to training in the camp I was in.

Shee had the ability to overcome the problems she saw as obstacles. She was a friend who easily adapted to Garzan’s known harsh terrain. The enemy had said that we ‘had fled’, meamig me and Roza during the winter of 2015. Whereas, she was in one camp, and I was receiving ideological training in another camp to prepare for the next spring period.

Since she had the feeling that we would never see each other again when I went to the new task, she could not hold back her tears and started to cry. When I look back, I still remember her waving with her tearful eyes.”

Kurdistan’s young female guerrilla Roza joined the caravan of the martyrs together with 10 of her female comrades as a result of clashes with enemy forces during the Newroz process in 2017.

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