Rojava faces a historic opportunity to repeat Victory of Kobani - Mustafa Alo

After a decade of resistance to Kobani and achieving a historic victory over ISIS mercenaries, after the fascist President Recep Tayyip Erdogan had hoped for its fall, another historic opportunity looms before the components of Rojava to repeat the historic victory.

 In 2014, after ISIS mercenaries were allowed to occupy Mosul and attack Shengal in Iraq, and then occupy Raqqa in Syria and remove the borders between Syria and Iraq, and declare the so-called "Islamic State in Iraq and the Levant", the mercenaries attacked the Kobani canton, which was one of the three cantons declared at that time.

The Mosul province, which had hundreds of thousands of Iraqi soldiers armed with various types of light, medium and heavy weapons, fell within a few hours for ISIS mercenaries.

Shortly after the occupation of Raqqa, ISIS mercenaries who were raising the slogan "toppling the regime" directed their convoys towards Kobani, the flank of the Democratic Autonomous Administration.

On September 15, the attack began, and after more than 130 days of resistance by Kurds, Arabs and internationalists following the general mobilization call issued by Leader Abdullah Ocalan, ISIS was defeated and the Democratic Autonomous Administration was victorious. This was the first blow to Erdogan’s colonial project.

 Today’s events are very similar to what happened in 2014. There is a change in the maps in the Middle East. This change, which began with Hamas’s attack on Israel on October 7, 2023, is still ongoing.

 In a short period of time, the mercenaries of “Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham (formerly Jabhat al-Nusra)” occupied large parts of the city of Aleppo and its western and southern countryside, as well as the neighboring Idlib province. In the early days, international and regional powers, including Bashar al-Assad's allies, remained silent until the mercenaries reached the outskirts of the city of Hama in central Syria, and Russian warplanes began launching some raids on the mercenaries in central Aleppo and its surroundings, and Iran's agents began issuing threats to the mercenaries supported by the Turkish occupation state.

 As soon as the Damascus government began talking about a counterattack against the mercenaries who claim that their goal is to "topple the regime", the pace of battles with government forces calmed down, and the mercenaries began directing their attacks towards the areas of the Autonomous Administration, specifically the city of Tal Rifaat in the Shahba canton, as they did in 2014, they stopped attacking the "regime" and headed towards Kobani, to make it clear again that the goal is not to "topple the regime" but to topple the Autonomous Administration.

 During the Kobani resistance, the Autonomous Administration consisted of 3 cantons (Afrin, Kobani, and al-Jazira) and were geographically disconnected from each other. But today the Autonomous Administration is in a better position.

The Autonomous Administration has the elements to achieve victory, much more than it had in 2014. The administration manages vast areas rich in ethnic and religious diversity, rich in resources, and geographically connected.

The administration, which is 10 years old and has entered its 11th year, has gained the sympathy of the free world through its resistance and democratic project.

The Autonomous Administration also has a long experience in resistance, especially in Serekaniye and Tal Abyad.

These elements and factors are a strong advantage to repel the mercenaries who are attacking Tal Rifaat and behind them the Turkish occupation state, and to move towards broader victories as in the phase following the liberation of Kobani, where the liberation campaigns continued until they reached Deir Ezzor, Raqqa, Manbij, Tabqa, and Shahba.

Here, the position of the international coalition to fight ISIS remains a question mark: Will it intervene to support the resisting people, or will it remain inaction for interests with the Turkish occupation state?

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ANHA