RiseUp4Rojava, Internationalist Commune and Women call for worldwide Day X Mobilisation for Rojava

RiseUp4Rojava campaign, the Internationalist Commune in Rojava, and Young Internationalist Women, call for a worldwide Day X Mobilisation against the rising threat of a new large scale Turkish invasion of Rojava.

The statement says: “In light of the developments of recent weeks, we hereby renew our Day X call of 2019, which was the basis for hundreds of thousands of people around the world to take to the streets on October 9, 2019, in response to the Turkish army’s attack against the cities of Serêkaniyê and Girê Spî, against the war, and in solidarity with the resistance. The war and the resistance have never stopped. Using a wide variety of means, the Turkish state has been continuously attacking the Freedom Movement in Kurdistan, both in the north/Turkey, in the south/Iraq and in northern Syria/Rojava. A ‘low intensity’ and from time to time ‘high intensity’ war is being waged against the movement and the people.”

The statement continued: “The people in Northern Syria are resisting this ongoing war against the various peoples in the region, who long for a peaceful and respectful life together. Since 2012, they have taken their fate into their own hands and have since been trying to build a self-administered, democratic society for themselves. In particular, women’s freedom and the pioneering role of women within society and in defending the achievements of the revolution play an important role in this. After the people of Rojava were able to successfully defend themselves against IS, the Turkish state began targeted attacks against the region. Since then, the fascist Turkish state has occupied key regions of the democratic self-administration in Northern Syria in three operations in 2016, 2018, and 2019. The consequences of this are exploitation, oppression, and forced demographic change.”

Recalling that “for about a month now, the war rhetoric of the fascist Turkish government towards the self-administered areas of Northern Syria/Rojava has intensified once again”, the statement adds: “Troops are being deployed to the various border points, the clashes on the front lines are increasing, and the fascist AKP-MHP government in Turkey is clearly trying both internally to get “its own country” in the mood for the new war and externally to obtain the necessary political-economic-diplomatic support for a renewed major offensive. And it is precisely this point that is essential for us: the Turkish state is conducting its dictatorial genocidal and assimilation policy with international support. Without this support of military, financial, logistical and political-diplomatic nature, Turkey’s wars of aggression and its aggressive foreign policy would be unimaginable: Syria, Northern Iraq, the war in Kurdistan, Qarabağ-Armenia, Libya, Mediterranean Cyprus – all these are direct or indirect products of the international support that the Turkish state receives for its crimes. We want to put an end to this with an international front against Turkish fascism.”

The activists said that they are “mobilising for the Day X of a renewed invasion against the liberated areas in Northern Syria. If it comes to Day X, the beginning of a new Turkish invasion, then: Let’s take the streets, take actions, occupy, disrupt and block! Together we defend the revolution and take the war back to the responsible places, profiteers, companies and governments!”

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Map of action: https://riseup4rojava.org/take-action/