DEM Party Amed Provincial co-chair Abbas Şahin told ANF that regimes designed to deny and destroy the Kurds also bring about their own end, and added: "Turkey needs to see this and needs to know that the Kurdish people are not going to give up their achievements."

Şahin said that the policies implemented for a century were designed to destroy and assimilate the Kurdish people, and noted that lessons should be learned from the fall of the Baath regime, that pursued the elimination of Kurds for years.

Targeting what Kurds have achieved

Şahin said that the current dominant Turkish politics is completely positioned against the Kurdish people, and added: "The regime is disturbed by the gains of the Kurdish people in Rojava. For this reason, it is trying to control that territory through its proxies in Syria. Turkey is organizing attacks in order to destroy the gains of the Kurdish people in Rojava. These attacks violate international law, and are totally unacceptable. Turkey is pushing the HTS to ignore the Kurdish identity. But the state itself knows very well that the key to the solution to the problems that have been accumulating for a century is Mr. Öcalan."

Sahin said: "The system established by the Kurds in Rojava is a structure that is a model not only for Rojava but for the entire world. Turkey must now make peace with the Kurdish people. In a place where there is no just and lasting peace, there is no end to policies designed to destroy the other side. We saw this in Saddam's Baath regime. Refusing to find a solution and engaging in war, in the end, brought those regimes to an end. We sat it in Iraq, we saw it in Syria."