HDP: World Kobanê Day is the day of all peoples​​​​​​​

HDP stressed that the peoples of Syria need a peace that will exclude no one on the basis of their differences, and democratic reconstruction.

Peoples’ Democratic Party (HDP) Central Executive Board released a statement marking November 1 World Kobanê Day.

The statement said the following:

“The Syrian Civil War in which hundreds of thousands of people have lost their lives and millions of people have been displaced has caused great social destruction since 2011. Lands where totalitarian regimes have executed their own peoples; where al-Qaeda-derived gangs have carried out massacres using fear and terror; where regional powers have pursued their imperial ambitions and global powers that have fought their interest-based wars have also become sites of historical resistance.

In the autumn of 2014, ISIS, which had massacred tens of thousands of people including women, children and civilians in Iraq and Syria with the support of regional and global powers, encountered the great resistance of the peoples of Kobanî, and especially the Kurdish people. The great resistance against the tanks, cannons and heavy weapons of ISIS by the peoples of Kobanî became a beacon of hope for the peoples of the Middle East.

Moreover, the determined stance against the darkness of ISIS became the necessary response to those who openly stated their desire for the fall of Kobanî to ISIS; and heralded a bright future. The struggle for freedom and equality of Kobanî's women has also offered a model for all the women of the world. Kobanî, the symbol city of a free, equal and common life, has come to symbolize the common spirit of international solidarity and resistance.

In Kobanî, ISIS took its first defeat and its decline in the region began. Today, those who want to repeat what ISIS wanted to do will face the same will of resistance and solidarity. Kobanî resisted in the past, and with the same determination it will resist today and tomorrow.

For the peoples, the political and democratic solution in the Syrian civil war relies on the establishment of a free, common and equal life through constitutional agreement. Once again we emphasize that there has been no aggression from Kobanî or the north of Syria to Turkey as of today. The efforts to render the condition in the region unmanageable for the peoples of the region itself, and especially for the Kurdish people, can never be accepted.

The peoples of Syria need a peace that will exclude no one on the basis of their differences, and democratic reconstruction. This new term must be shaped by negotiations that include all parties, and marked by a political and diplomatic solution. Those who target the east of the Euphrates are paving the road to prolong conflict and war.

The Day of Solidarity with Kobanî, which is the proclamation of determination for a free and equal coexistence against darkness, has been the gift from those who resisted barbarism in Kobanî to all the peoples of the world.”