Kurds Battle Battle Turkey months after Assad’s fall

To reach north-east Syria, we crossed a rickety floating bridge over the River Tigris. Our minibus dug while it brings us from Iraqi Kurdistan by Syrian oil fields, where jacks pumping oil lines on roads.

This part of Syria is controlled by Kurds, calling this rojava – means Western Kurdistan. Since 2012, after the eruption of the civil war, they operated as a self-declared region of autonomy, protected by Kurdish forces.

But Bashar Al-Assad regime has not been known and, despite his falling from power, its future remain uncertain.

As well as a civil war, Syrian Kurds faced years conflicting with the northern neighbor, Turkey – a battle that they were still fighting.

A dedade ago, the Islamic State group (hit in this region, obtained cities and villages with little resistance – until the city of Kobane, in the Turkish border, in September 2014.

Militants do not take over the city entry, but they impose a fierce siege lasting for months.

The factions led by Kurd, supported by the US military coalition, supported the siege of the early 2015. This January, joined the city residents while they marked the 10-year anniversary.

At Kobane gate, women at the age of 50s, armed with AK-47 attacks in rifles, guard checkpoints. Women have a significant role in the fight in the same – many volunteering to all female defense units (YPJ).

As we drove around the city, the scars of war, with the posters of young men and women who died.

But in the main square, the situation is the festival. Girls and boys, wearing colored outfits in Kurd in Kurd, sings while they are celebrated.

For older generations, it is a time in bittersweet. “Yesterday night I lit the candles for my martyr brother and other killed in Kobane,” says Newrouz Ahmad, a 45-year-old mother of four. “It’s a happy day, but also a painful. I want him to be here to see it.”

The Kurdy-Lead Syrian Democratic (SDF) of the declared victory is in the northeastern Syria in 2019. But freedom from does not bring lasting peace.

Turkey and a coalition of Turkish-backed groups known as the Syrian National Army (Sircan) military territories run along hundreds of boundary kilometers.

Turkey considers the largest component of the SDF – people’s protection units (YPG) – an autonomy fight in Turgexian in Turkey in Turkara and ankara as a terrorist organization. The country wants to push SDF from its border.

To collapse the Assad regime in late 2024, the Turkey-backed Serno is a new offensive to remove the western SDF Euphress territory from the SDF.

Now fights in places near Kobane. A Kurdel Commerce in the city silently tell me:

In the city, the scent of fuel fills the wind, and the deaf sound of generators can be heard everywhere. Locals told me most electric stations, refineries, and even telecommunication antennas were destroyed in Turkish airways in the past two years.

Newrouz Ahmad says that “defeated is in Kobane … we will not allow Turkey and its proxes to occupy our city, we will also defeat them”.

At a restaurant, the opportunity people know we are not local, they surround us. I begged an old man with other gray hair and a stick in his hands how old he was. I think he was about 80, but the answer he gave me the prosecutor. “I’m 60,” he said.

It is clear that people here are tired of war, witnessing many deaths and bloodshed.

And now the threat of another battle shakes.

Turkish-made rubbers and Turkish Jets refer to SDF positions and supply routes around the city. Even civilian protests hit.

In a hospital in the region, I found one of the injured – Lea Bunse, a 28-year-old German German activist who volunteered rojava for more than two years.

He showed me a video of a demonstration of a demonstration he said he was part of January. The footage shows two projectiles dropping from the sky and struck a crowd of dancing people.

Protest is held near the strategic Tishreen Dam, where the fight continues. The SDF said six civilians were killed, and many were injured.

“An old man next to me was also injured,” he told me from his bed.

“I lost my blood … but when we arrived in the ambulance, another attack on the drone was brought next to our ambulance,” he added.

Human Rights Watch is condemned an attack hit by a Kurd red Kurd-Red Crescent as a “apparent crime of war” in Turkish-Sna Coaalition.

Turkey Foreign Ministry tells BBC “The reports claim to Turkey involved civilians who” increases that the SDF has sent civilians to a “conflict area with the objective” man shield … to not lose control of the said dam “.

It accuses the SDF using “violence and terror” to keep the Separatist’s own agenda and stop technical teams from access to the dam for repairs.

The new leader of Syria Ahmad Al-Sharaa, hit between a stone and a hard place.

Interim President – whose Islamist Group Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham (HSS) is led by a combined Damascus government, and demanded all armed factions of Damascus, and demanded all armed factions of Damascus. Negotiations are reported held by the SDF to find a solution for the northeast.

But the inclusion of Kurdus factions places Sharaa in a difficult position in one of his main allies – Turkey.

And at Sharaa’s opening a conference for the national dialogue of Syria’s future Tuesday, no Kurdish Autonomous Administration – said it was not invited.

Telling me from a wise location near an American base of the province of Hassake in the northeast Syria, SDF Commander Gen Mazloom told SHARAA in Damascus before.

But both sides have not met an agreement.

“Indeed, we continue to war in Turkey and its proxes. Turkish jets and drones continue to joke to us,” he said, “in Damascus, these steps are positive. But it is positive. them from Turkey to work against places controlled.

“But the US, France, and some Arab countries have pushed them to recognize Kurdy rights,” he said.

For the US, SDF fights are the most reliable allies in the fight.

Now, hundreds of US troops remain in Kurdish controlled areas, to counter sleep cells.

But Kurds are now afraid that President Donald Trump can leave these troops, leaving the region to contaminate any Turkish military operations, and it is possible to rise.

It is estimated that there are about 40,000 family members and up to 10,000 jihadists fighting camps and jihadist-controlled prisons restricted to the North-Sast, said Gen Abdi.

“If Turkish attacks, we have no choice but again in our forces,” he warns. “That will give an opportunity to attack prisons and warriors free.”

There are additional uncertainty for women who fight against all YPJ women rankings.

Office walls of 29-year-olds Roksana Mohamed covered with pictures of fellow women who killed the war.

“So far, we did not find roles given by women in the new Damascus leadership,” he said. “Why is a woman not a minister of protection?”

Ms Mohamed said women fight for their rights in this region. They are active involved in every aspect of political, social, and military life.

“If our rights are not respected, how can we expect to offer our arms?” he asked.

So while some believe that Syria’s strength is on the horizon, for Kurds, the future is unclear. Can they know as partners in a new Syria, or facing another rounded war?