Hundreds of citizens marched in different cities in northeastern Syria, protesting against recent Turkish drone attacks that killed Kurdish civilians in both northeastern Syria and Iraqi Kurdistan and commemorating the victims of the drone attacks.
The women’s umbrella organisation Kongra Star and the Young Women’s Union (Yekitiya Jinên Ciwan) organised a march in Aleppo (Heleb), holding up pictures of the murdered journalists Gulîstan Tara and Hêro Bahadîn and demanding an end to Turkish drone attacks that kill Kurdish civilians.
Young Kurdish and Arab people in Shaddadi condemned the recent attacks on northeastern Syria, where two civilians were killed in a drone strike in Qamishli (Qamişlo) on Wednesday 28 August, and another civilian was killed in a targeted blast in Amûdê (Amuda), al-Hasakah (Hesekê) province, on Thursday 29 August.
Hundreds of citizens marched in the cities of Derbasiyah (Dirbêsiyê), Chil Agha and Deir ez-Zor (Dêrazor), holding up pictures of civilians killed in Turkish military attacks in northeastern Syria. They also condemned a recent incident in the Jazeera canton, where a young woman was run over by a Russian tank.
Another march took place in Syria’s Arab-majority al-Thawrah (Tabqa), led by young people holding a banner with pictures of Xalide Mihemed Şerif (45) and her son Hejar Ednan Silêman (24), who were killed in the Turkish attack in Qamishli on 28 August. A statement was given in which the people of al-Thawrah emphasised that they will hold the Turkish state accountable for its crimes and continue their struggle for organising themselves according to the model of a democratic nation, developed by imprisoned Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan.
The people of al-Hasakah also organised a march, declaring, “The Turkish state cannot break the willpower of our people. These attacks only strengthen the commitment of the people of this region to continue the fight of our martyrs.”
