“We are part of Syria and we want to be part of the solution. Solving the problems through dialogue is the healthiest way for all of us,” says Salih Muslim, a member of the PYD Presidency Council and former PYD Co-chair.
The massacre of journalists Nazım Daştan and Cihan Bilgin by Turkey, which has violated the law of war against Kurds since its foundation with the massacres in Dêrsim and Zilan, has turned the eyes to the war crimes that Turkey has committed and continues to commit today.
"Ending the isolation of Mr. Ocalan is good for all of us in the world," says Portuguese Assembly of Republic Member Jorge Pinto, who applied to the Ministry of Justice to meet with PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan.
Sevim Encü, who lost 2 of her brothers in the Roboskî massacre and whose husband survived with injuries, stated that her husband Servet Encü was the only witness in the case and said: "My husband was constantly subjected to pressure because of this. Our house was combed, we migrated because of the pressure, but my husband did not give up his case."
In 2024, when hundreds of women were murdered, the way and solution of women who did not give up resistance against war, isolation, exploitation, migration, massacres of children, animals and nature was embodied in the slogan “Jin, jiyan, azadi (Woman, life, freedom)”.
During the vigil on the Pirsûs-Kobanê border, it was emphasised that the will of the people in North and East Syria to govern themselves must be respected.
Turkey and its affiliated groups bombed Gir'e Spî and Til Temir villages and grain silos.
The Kurdistani Alliance parties, in their speeches after a joint statement against the attacks on northern and eastern Syria, called for Kurdish national unity in the face of the opportunity that comes after a hundred years.
Describing journalist Nazım Daştan, his friends Arif Bulut and Rasim Denizciler said that Daştan was s smiling and positive person like in his photographs and that his frame was always focused on violations.
Lawyers from the Asrın Law Office have made a new application for a meeting with their client Abdullah Öcalan.
Citizens who started a vigil on the Pîrsus-Kobanê border against the attacks of Turkey and the affiliated SNA against North and East Syria said: "We will defend Kobanê with the same spirit as we defended it against the ISIS attack in 2014."
Ömer Öcalan of DEM Party said that Abdullah Öcalan, whom he met on 23 October, said about the developments in Syria: "Kurds are not the Kurds of 100 years ago. Kurds will defend their rights until the end".
Reacting against the non-release of Emrah-Fırat Nebioğlu brothers, one of whom is paralysed outside and the other in prison, despite a disability report, uncle Emin Şahin asked human rights defenders to make their voices heard.
Stating that peace can be achieved in Syria with a pluralist structure, "In a multi-identity Syria, the model applied in North and East Syria is a model that can get the consent of the society," says Hakan Tahmaz, President of the Peace Foundation.
Prisoners reported the violations of rights in Bakırköy Women's Prison and stated that 7 prisoners were prevented from being released due to disciplinary penalties and 4 prisoners' executions were burnt.