40 days have already passed since the beginning of the war of aggression against Efrîn and its glorious resistance. Baran Serhad from the MLKP/Rojava Organization evaluated the situation there and answered some crucial questions. It was 40 days left behind since the start of invading attacks against Efrîn. At what stage is the war now, how far have Turkish Armed Forces (Turkish Army, TAF) and Free Syrian Army (FSA) advanced so far? We are in a war under very unequal conditions. On the one hand, there are the NATO's second biggest army with its military technique equivalent to billions of dollars and its flock of fighting gangs; on the other hand, there are the defense forces of the revolution and the oppressed fighting for honor and freedom. They are attacking to the resistance forces of Efrîn and to our peoples with tens of war planes, Armed Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (SIHA), the cannons attacking day and night both from the border and inside, latest model tanks bought from Germany and an unlimited ammunition. With those bombs both from air and land, they are trying to destroy hundreds of years of people's heritage, their poor houses, historical olive trees and beautiful geography of Efrîn. With blood and destruction, they are trying to unmannalize Efrîn and its surrounding. The revolutionary forces of Rojava and North Syria are fighting against a rat army which throws 600 howitzer balls to a village with 100 houses or more than 25 barrel bombs to a modest foothold in the Qestel hill. The invading fascist Erdoğan and its gangs have only entered in some parts of the border villages of Efrîn, which they claimed “to destroy in one week” by relying on their enormous power. And actually, those villages were already evacuated by Efrîn resistance forces before in order to protect civilians from getting damage. There is currently a concentration of invading forces at the border. They can carry on their existence here only by jets and howitzers. On the days when the airplanes can not move, they get heavy blows from the resistance forces. What would you say about Syrian Democratic Forces’ (SDF) level of resistance? SDF and its components are waging a fight for a legitimate resistance and protection of freedom. Therefore, they can exhibit a strong moral resistance. Until now, SDF has fought against the bloody barbarism of ISIS and still does as in the Deyr-ez-Zor case. It has gained also a significant experience from these wars. But for the first time, there is a zonal defense being given against a regular army. The conditions are not equal at all, but with tactical mastery and maneuvers, with a strong consciousness of resistance, the invading forces are getting heavy losses. The SDF’s dose not only take place as a military force in these resistance emplacements. The whole population is resisting against this fascist barbarism and invasion. Efrîn is resisting village by village, house by house. Behind each olive tree and each piece of rock, there lays a great battle of resistance. Along with cracking the foundations of Turkish colonialism, this war is getting to be an inspiration for millions of oppressed people. There is a reason why Erdoğan suits up a camouflage jacket and gives marching orders to the army. They are in trouble and will face more difficulties. And our resistance in Efrîn has already gained the victory. Even if they loot the villages, burn down all the houses, we can say that they did lose and the resistance won. What does the people Efrîn think? how is their motivation, how do they join the resistance? The people of Efrîn give a tremendous lesson to the peoples of the world and also to the fascist Erdogan and his gangs. They show that it is possible to resist by defying the destructive massacre attacks of the tanks, planes, and howitzers without hesitation despite the bombs falling on them. The practice of the peoples of Efrîn and their leaders are not like those of Binali Yıldırım (Turkish prime minister) who ran away after seeing couple of tanks approaching, and hid inside a construction tunnel (his reaction on the day of coup attempt on July 15th, 2016), or like Erdoğan who keeps secret from even his closest ones where he goes. The peoples of Efrîn are positioned in various emplacements of the resistance all together; warriors in the frontiers, transporters on the roads, commune labourers in the cities. Those who cannot go the frontiers organize the logistics and even children, with their own life meaning nothing than a resistance itself, dare to the enemy. Here, what we saw the other day: thousands of people heading towards Mabata, tens of thousands lined up behind the funeral of martrys. They are all putting their bodies as a shield against those tanks, aircrafts and howitzers. Peoples of Efrîn are resisting and this is such a heroic resistance to be a subject for poems, movies. Do only Kurdish people join the resistance? How are the approach and participation of other peoples? Of course, Efrîn resistance is not just the resistance of the Kurdish people. Within the frontiers, mobilization and solidarity actions, all the peoples of Efrîn and religious communities take their parts. Arabs, Turkmens, Assyrians, Alevis, Ezidis and peoples from other nations and beliefs came together from both inside and outside the other cantons and integrated with the resistance. Despite being exposed to massacres, peoples do not leave their land. What is the situation in terms of internationalists, revolutionists and communists in Efrîn resistance? There is now happening the world's most legitimate and honorable act in Efrîn. A great resistance is being shown against the fascist occupation attacks, against the enemies of freedom, honor, women and revolution. It is a resistance that anyone who claims to be a revolutionary, democratic, internationalist or communist should take place in. So, everyone is doing their job. What could be more natural than this if the internationalists, revolutionaries and communists take place in both Efrîn and all the solidarity actions outside? Internationalists, revolutionaries, and communists from all folks and communities are taking their place in the Efrîn resistance fronts against this invasion attack. In this struggle, they pay a heavy cost with martyrs and wounded people, of course, they also make the invaders pay heavy costs. Everyone, who is a member of the Rojava revolution or a friend of it, takes place in this resistance and is a part of "the Resistance of the Age" as we say it with the words it deserves. Fighters from France to Spain, from Greece to Iceland, meet on the same front with the ones who come from Istanbul, Ankara or other parts of Anatolia and Kurdistan, and against the invasion attack, together with the people of Efrîn, they advocate the revolution. The Internationalist Freedom Battailon has now taken its place in the Efrîn fronts after the Cizre-Kobanê-Rakka moves. It is fighting here as well as trying to develop solidarity with Efrîn resistance on the international platform. Communists continue to be a part of this process with both local and internationalist forces. And not just in Efrîn. Communist fighters are also deployed in Deyr-ez-Zor, protecting their lands against the fascist ISIS gangs. They takes place in the organization of solidarity actions and they work in the mobilization of the people through the communes and institutions they work. What is the most needed for the people/resistance of Efrîn today? What the people of Efrîn and its resistance need most is all kinds of actions and solidarities that will weaken the occupiers. There are different forms of this, of course. But it is for sure, even when there is so much silence inside, Erdoğan and the gangs are afraid. Because they hear the humming coming from underground. They keep the threshold as high as possible by arresting even those who tweet or share in the social media. They are trying to hide their unjust, dirty and bloody occupation war with intense chauvinism and fascist oppression. Because they know they will be condemned a million times in conscience, they do things depraving conscience, throw up poisonous words from the school, television, social media. They are pumping lies. They are trying to disprove an entire society. With this intensive terror, they seem to have managed to prevent the peoples of Turkey and North Kurdistan take to the streets as in the days of Kobanê for now. However, this situation is temporary. The honorable Kurdish and Turkish peoples know that it means collaboration to remain silent in this bloody occupation battle and they are accumulating. However, it should not be forgotten that accumulation that does not flow in the right time can also be corrupting. In this context, the revolutionaries and the communists have very special duties. It is important to play a leading role in the mobilization of society and to develop ideological-political criticisms that will shake some reformist circles. In fact, pretending to be dead, hiding behind the demagogy of “but Kurds are negotiating with USA”, sheltering to theories of “another situation, another condition” are not the things put forth by let alone big organizations, even honorable individuals. See, everything is developing as the priest Niemöller said during Hitler fascism. It is turning against the ones remaining silent against the attacks since they are not Kurdish, communist, radical revolutionaries or militants and there is noone left for them to make noise. Now is the time for pioneering attitudes. If invaders can carry out a move to Efrîn so comfortably waving their arms, we must work harder than ever, communists in Turkey, patriotic and revolutionary forces should do more advanced things, primarily Peoples’ United Revolutionary Movement (HBDH) components. We are aware of that those who arrested even the ones who tweet want to prevent bursting situations like people sitting in front of the war-torn convoy to stop them. Or we are aware of those who detain irrelevant people for the reason that they have a potential for action, and those who have desire to prevent bombs falling on Efrîn and the destruction from coming to their homes. It is very clear that we are going through times necessary to become an icebreaker. Breaking the ice is hard and challenging, but only through that opened road, freedom can be reached. There were intense meetings in the last few days. Talks with US Minister of Foreign Affairs Tillerson and German Prime Minister Merkel were held by Turkey. How do you evaluate all these negotiations with the imperialists? Did the Erdoğan’s palace accept the demands of the imperialists? Both themselves and their crooks are confessing that Erdoğan-Saray dictatorship couldn’t make the USA accept their demands. America seems to have drawn a Minbic line. They maintain unconventional,interest-based relations with Merkel’s Germany. Relations with Russia are complicated. However, the relations of Tayyip Erdogan’s dictatorship with Putin’s Russia seems to be one of the most concrete relations giving him chance to maneuver, but it is a relationship just like a fish on the bait. Erdoğan thinks he is swimming on his own, but the hand at the end of the bait is Russia. I think we will see more concrete results in the future. Invasion attack to Efrîn is not something that Turkey can decide on its own. All the powers that have influence and power in the region, especially Russia, and including the United States, do not want the democratic federal system of Rojava and North Syria to develop and strengthen. Each one has different accounts, but all of them have a common stake, it is the continuation of existing system of capitalist exploitation and leaving no space for an alternative. Rojava and those living in northern Syria are pointing to an alternative revolutionary development. It is precisely because of this that they try every way and every form to weaken the revolution and its vanguards in terms of military, economic, political, organizational and ideological. The Efrîn War is also one of the attacks that distorts the system, delays construction, imposes compulsory alliances or back up. Russia was the one who opened the way for Turkey, but some of the EU states and the United States was in harmony with them by distracting their own people with the tale of "Turkey has a legitimate right to defend". They just did not agree on issues of borders which Turkey will remain within. Which, in the beginning, did not make much difference. Russia, wanted to expand the contradictions between US and Turkey. Those who supported this occupation directly or indirectly thought that the Turkish bourgeois state would take what they wanted in a short time. Maybe they wanted to test SDF's resistance capacity. They had tried this before against ISIS, both in Kobanê and in Minbic, but this time, the situation was different. There is the second largest army of NATO in front of revolutionary forces and they have no air support. Efrîn resistance was surprised everyone. It broke all the plans. And those plans will get worse. Moreover, in this process, in return of Efrîn, move opportunities came into view which would strengthen the regime and therefore the hand of Russia and Iran. From Guta to Aleppo, from Homs to İdlib, they opened the way of retreating the attacks of the gangs supported by the Turkish government and Turkey were forced to give approval to it. Therefore, everyone faced with the obligation to set their position again. Of course, Tayyip Erdoğan's dictatorship also played a role with its limitless ambition and unbalanced politics. For the fascist Turkish bourgeois dictatorship, which gets out of control and tries to become an actor again in the region with the politics of “all done and gone” style, these negotiations have been used to restrain Erdoğan a bit and to persuade the revolutionary and resistance forces to sickness by threatening them with death and sanitize. And Erdoğan is not very aware yet that he made a historical mistake for himself. Erdoğan went into such a hole that he will have to tie his neck to get out, but he is not aware. Even if Efrîn is shattered into pieces, we can say that this process will be the beginning of the end of the Erdoğan’s clic. Now, the wick of a process is burning, hard, bloody but full of possibilities. What do you think about calling the Syrian army to Efrîn? Negotiations with the Assad regime, with Russia or Iran have always been done at different times and will be done from now on too. The current regime does not have a will of its own. Therefore, every negotiation with the regime means it is also done with Russia and Iran at the same time. Before and after the attack to Efrîn, negotiations were held with both the regime and its protectors. They believed that, in the face of gigantic military power the Turkish state had built up, the revolutionary forces of Rojava and North Syria would be afraid, will step back, and accept almost all the demands of the Russian-regime-Iranian coalition. The declaration of the Tev-Dem administration about these negotiations has already been known. As mentioned there, the demands of Russia and Assad regime were not accepted in the talks. On top of that, Russia opened the road, the airspace. Then a war of aggression and massacre began. The people of Efrîn and those who resisted against the occupation did not submit to the Turkish state and their gangs. But the unequal war continued with all its destructiveness. The main advantage of the Turkish state in this war comes from air, from the jets and explorer planes. Blocking this advantge could determine the fate of the war, but this imposed another mandatory tactic. It was said to the Assad regime that it could place its troops on the borders in the frame of "federative understanding". They put forth other obligations, but their obligations were not accepted. Eventually, the ongoing resistance increasingly awakes sympathy in the Syrian people’s hearts, which obliges the Assad regime to approve that some forces connected with the army could pass to Efrîn. It is not a usual preference for the Rojava revolution that the regime troops have come to the Efrîn, which were freed from the Assad regime, even though only on the borders. The level of war mandates such a tactical maneuver. It is very important for the Efrîn resistance to block the invading fascist Turkish army, especially the attacks made from the air. To deepen contradictions between the sovereign states, to benefit from here to protect and develop the revolution, in some cases, also bring tactical maneuvers together. With the latest tactical alliance made, if the Turkish army's air attacks can be prevented, the course of the war may change. The possibilities of striking the Turkish state and its gangs can be attained and, more importantly, the Turkish gangs can be cleared from the free Efrîn mountains and their hills. This maneuver has not yet produced a result on this basis, but this process will continue and the correct tactics will remain decisive in the course of the war. Do you have a call to the peoples of the world? We are calling the peoples of the world to escalate the struggle shoulder to shoulder with the people of Efrîn, who are fighting for honor and freedom, to come out to the streets to say "No Passaran" once more and to come to the war trenches. We also greet the laborers of Kurdish, Turkish and other peoples in Europe who have filled the streets from the first day of the occupation attacks and supported the Efrîn resistance, and the patriots, revolutionists and communists who have worked hard in these works. We would like to note that their manner has powered the Efrîn resistance fronts. Lastly, as the Efrînian insurgents quoted Yilmaz Güney’s saying: We will win, we will definitely win!
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