#Israel continues to harass #Palestinians returning to #Gaza. Far-right Israeli bill would mandate death penalty for Palestinians. #Trump to meet #Netanyahu at the White House to discuss #Iran. Grand jury rejects Trump-backed effort to indict Democratic lawmakers over military dissent video. Trump weighs second #US aircraft carrier deployment to #MiddleEast. Progressive challenger #AnaliliaMejia wins Democratic primary in #NJ special House race. Instagram suspends #AIPAC tracker. Children in #Texas#ICE family detention experience fear, illness, and months without school. Children zip-tied during militarized #immigration raid at Idaho horse racing venue, lawsuit claims. #Kurdish#PKK fighters withdraw from #Syria.
But the YPG’s inevitable clash with the state came this month, as the Syrian army, supported by allied Arab tribes, advanced quickly. The #YPG’s rapid collapse was expected by those familiar with its history: the group, operating under a #Kurdish banner, was never a genuine grassroots force. It lacked popular support even among most #Kurds and was completely dependent on foreign [...] backing.
Throughout the Syrian conflict, the group shifted its loyalty from the Assad regime to Iran, then Russia, then the #US and the EU, and finally #Israel. At no point since 2011 could it have held its ground against its opponents without massive funding, weapons and air support from the US and others.
The months-long standoff between the #SDF and the #Damascus government turned in the government’s favor on Sunday when #Arab tribes in the provinces of Raqqa and Deir Ez-Zour—who had for years been close allies of the SDF in its fight against ISIS—defected to the government and turned their guns on their former comrades. In response, the SDF rapidly withdrew from these largely Arab provinces and established their line of defense further north in the #Kurdish heartlands of Qamishli, Kobani, and Hasake.
The slogan 'Jin, Jîyan, Azadî' originates with the #Kurdish women's revolution. It was the horrifying death of a Kurdish woman Mahsa #Amini in Iran which mobilised the courageous women's revolt in 2022. This genocidist woman-killer Netanyahu needs his mouth washed out.
Important we keep a close eye on the #Syrian situation, notably what happens to #Rojava & the #Kurds. The #Kurdish people of NE #Syria assembled a fairly egalitarian, multiethnic, #secular#democracy in their autonomous region, but Erdogan and Turkey will be gunning to dismantle it. #defendrojava ❤️⭐
YPJ members in a greenhouse farm, for ecological cooperative farming https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Autonomous_Administration_of_North_and_East_Syria
Originally expected to be released in August 2024, Turkish authorities kept renowned poet İlhan Sami Çomak jailed for another 96 days. Now, İlhan Sami Çomak is finally a free man, after having been imprisoned for 30 years, having been subjected to torture, and driven to sign false confessions. ...
Turkey's air force struck #Kurdish militant targets in #Iraq and #Syria on Wednesday in an apparent retaliation for an attack at a key state-run defence company that killed five people and wounding more than 20 others. #Turkey
The defence ministry said more than 30 targets were "destroyed" in the aerial offensive, without providing details on the locations that were hit. It said "all kinds of precautions" were taken to prevent harms to civilians. https://www.cbc.ca/news/world/turkey-aerospace-facility-attack-1.7360590
Turkish occupying forces have attacked the #funeral of #Kurdish#journalist#GulistanTara in northern #kurdistan and did not want her to be celebrated as a #martyr. The #Turkish state killed her with a drone in Slêmanî and has now also attacked her funeral as an occupying force. This is what life is like for the #Kurds under occupation.
no room in my mind – İlhan Sami Çomak ( fedia.io )
source: https://cld.bz/users/user-N5y4U8g/Trafika-Europe-Quarterly/TE16-Turkish-Delight/212/ ...
Carrying in love – İlhan Sami Çomak ( infosec.pub )
The napkin smeared with lipstick ...
Celebrating İlhan Sami Çomak's release from prison after 30 years ( infosec.pub )
Originally expected to be released in August 2024, Turkish authorities kept renowned poet İlhan Sami Çomak jailed for another 96 days. Now, İlhan Sami Çomak is finally a free man, after having been imprisoned for 30 years, having been subjected to torture, and driven to sign false confessions. ...