The martyrs enlighten our path and they are the ones saying the last word:
Afrin shall not be passed, the Rojava Revolution shall not be defeated!
Afrin has been resisting for honor and freedom with a wholehearted struggle against the fascist colonialist Turkish state and its bloody gangs for days. Afrin has been making history against the second biggest army of the NATO. SDF, YPG-YPJ, MLKP and revolutionary forces from Turkey have been upholding the flag of honor and freedom shoulder to shoulder against this contemptible attack. They have been greeted with the heroic resistance of fighters and peoples of Afrin who are defending the revolution in the lands of Rojava where they have been trying to infiltrate for days with coward and abject attacks based on high war technique.
Erdoğan and his gangs are massacring civilians and children in Afrin, ruining Afrin and its villages with war planes and cannonballs. The peoples of Afrin and defense forces of the revolution are resisting and fighting with a determination deserved to be called “the resistance of the age” against this massacrist terror waged with an aggression worse than ISIS. They clamp down on the fascist invading forces not even in a single front and become the flag of honor and hope against the invaders.
The fighters are walking on death by saying “Afrin shall not be passed” to defend Afrin and the Rojava revolution, they are hitting heavy blows to the fascist Turkish army and its gangs. Marching at the forefront together with the trench comrades against the fascist occupation, our fighters are defeating death with an heroic stance honoring everyone left behind and waving the flag of immortality. Ruhat Aşkara, Erdal Demirhan and Sedat Akyüz, who were in the Afrin resistance since its beginning, waved the flag of immortality on different dates. The fascist invaders could only stop the heroes of Afrin resistance with howitzers and planes. Alongside with our martyrs, our numerous wounded comrades bandaged their wounds and also continued fighting even without taking one step back.
Taking place in the units and the emplacements inflicting casualties to the enemies at the Jandaris, Rajo and Badina, our fighters carried out actions in the villages of Kudê, Omera, Kevirê Ker, Dimilya, Dirbelet, Deva, Heci Iskender, Akcele, Hamamê, Baflore, Til Slore, Ebu Kaebo, Heciler, Hemilka and Kefer Sefre, and positioned at the resistance trenches. In the Jandaris area only, 11 military vehicles, 2 motors in total were given a blow by the units in which our forces also took place and 125 invaders were exterminated in these actions. At the fronts in which our immortal fighters Ruhat, Erdal and Sedat took place, the invaders received heavy losses with many of their dead and wounded, thus the enemy was forced to flee. During this period, one of the internationalist fighters, Haukur Hilmarsson from Iceland, who acted together with our party forces, fell as martyr and another international comrade was also heavily wounded.
During this period, our trench comrades from BÖG, TKEP/L , MLSPB and internationalists who took place in the same resistance also had martyrs and wounded, our fight of flame was flared up with our martyrs. Alongside the SDF, YPG, YPJ and Asayiş forces, the resistance barricades built up by the laborers, who are defending their own honor, freedom and land, did not give passage to the fascist occupation with “the resistance of the age”.
The Afrin insurgents continue to give glorious replies on the 50th days to the ones dreaming of Afrin in 3-5 days. The peoples of Afrin, Rojava and North Syria are defending their lands under heavy bombardment and Afrin is writing history.
In this history writing, one of ours leading the way is comrade Tirêj Alîşêr (Ruhat Aşkara). With the name Tirêj Alîşêr he took in Rojava, Ruhat Aşkara was "the smiling face of our sacrifice troop". Becoming immortal as fighting against the fascist Turkish state on the Kevirê Ker hill in Rajo on the 27th of January 2018, our comrade Tirêj was in the Afrin resistance since the beginning. Doing as team commander in the unit he took place, comrade Tirêj attacked to the enemy in a distance of a grenade in the clash in which he martyred, he and his trench comrades forced the horde of gang to flee leaving their casualties and wounded behind. The fascist enemy could only manage to stop them with cannonball strikes. Two trench comrades who were trying to bring their bodies back fell as martyrs, while our unit commander was wounded.
One of the young rebels of the Gezi uprising, comrade Ruhat (Tirêj) embraced the inevitability of the armed struggle against fascism, turned his face to our party and its free areas and became an impassioned fighter. He, expressed his dream of becoming a MLKP/FESK fighter on every chance both while he was in Turkey and while he was in free areas where he had come for training and he worked very hard to become a fighter with this quality. With effort, will and a strong engagement, he managed to make this dream come true. He became one of the frontiers of a big resistance war against the invasion attack of the fascist Turkish state and its gangs together with his comrades. His life was bright and sincere like his smile. He became immortal as fighting against fascist colonialism with the gun in his hand, as he wished.
As for Erdal Demirhan with the party name Özgür Avaroni who spent the last 24 years of his 39 years of life as a party member, he was a toiling comrade for revolution and socialism, taking duties at different ranks of our party. He experienced prisons, passed through torture. He was a representative of the resistance line. He witnessed all the processes peculiar to human, successes, deficiencies, hope, passion, he witnessed in a way rebuilding himself. He grounded on unifying his mind and emotions with his party during all these processes. Hence, when he turned his face to the free areas to strengthen his revolutionariness and to regenerate himself, his mind was clear and his praxis was looking ahead day by day. Comrade Özgür was saying:
“We cannot be a reply to the sharp and tough process which the class struggle is going through by positioning like we used to do. Today, the revolution is closer than ever before. Conditions of revolutionary situation and the struggle against the coup of the Palace put forth the need of organizing and positioning accordingly. Who is going to do this? So, only if each revolutionary individual faces with his/her individual position with this respect, this could be achieved. As a person, I have to start from myself to act accordingly. Many things can be counted as undone or unachieved. But, the one who will do it and achieve it is us/me. Right here, the martyrdom of comrade Berçem and Ekin is a guiding spirit. I am getting strength from their determination of asking account from fascism with their life-giving resistances, from their will and belief of organizing revolution. The resistances of Kurdish people in Cizre, Nusaybin, Sur and Silopi;the sacrificing stances of Mehmet Tunç’s walking to death by saying ‘We did not kneel, you don’t kneel either. Our people, remember us’ are the things flaring up my anger. The cry of martyrs and peoples uprising in the Gezi for freedom against fascism is wrapping around my whole body. I am walking on the footprints of the comrades who fell martyrs in Rojava and in Dersim. It is incumbent on me to ask for account of the comrades who fell martyrs in Suruç, of our peoples and laborers who were massacred in Ankara. I swear thousands of times that I will fight on a life-giving line to carry out their desires, values, beliefs and ideals, their revolution dreams. I will continue my struggle as a professional revolutionary on the line of devoted revolutionariness.”
Our comrade Özgür did exactly what he said. During his journey from free areas to Afrin, he developed and grew this line in himself day by day. Since the beginning, he was one of the frontiers of the resistance and struggle at the mountain trenches, at the poor village homes, under the olive trees when he became immortal together with his comrade Zeynel Seyid Rıza due to a war plane bombardment.
Sedat Akyüz with the party name Zeynel Seyid Rıza, was born in Antep in 1972, and a member of an Alevite family. He was a party laborer who ranked among the antifascist democratic struggle in Antep for a long time. When he came to the free areas during the period which the city wars had started in Kurdistan, he said ‘I want to make upsurges in my life as a revolutionary’, he took military training with his young comrades for this reason. He joined the wars waged against the politic islamist fascist ISIS gangs in Cizire canton, and took his place in the moves of Siluk and later ones. When he left behind his wife and two children who he wishes the most that they stay committed to the revolutionary values, he was saying that ‘this fight of mine is also for them to live freely and equally’. When he volunteered for joining the Afrin resistance, he emphasized his demand with the words ‘Now we are in a harsh and difficult period of defending and developing the Rojava revolution. With this consciousness and responsibility, it is an honor and happiness for me to fight at the forefront against the fascist TR’. He immediately ran to the fronts when he passed to Afrin, became a source of joy in the emplacements he was in, performed a practice uplifting the mood singing Alevite folk poems with his beautiful voice. Comrade Zeynel wounded once under heavy howitzer attacks. He wrapped his wound and remained on his tasks. On the day of 2nd of March, together with Özgür Avaroni and a group of YPG fighters, after they fought off the fascist invading hordes, he walked to immortality due to barrel bombing from war planes.
The Afrin resistance is the resistance of big humanity. We are saluting the revolution heroes immortalized in this resistance and leave the last word to martyr Tirêj: "We promise to our martyr comrades again. We will uphold this fight they fell martyrs for its sake, in Dersim, in Amanos, in North Sea region, in Aegean region, in Istanbul, in Izmir, in Amed and many other places and we will join them to the caravan of immortals by fighting deservedly to them. We promised revolution to the martyrs!"
Their promise is our promise, their dreams and memories are our guide.
Comrades Ruhat, Erdal and Sedat are immortal!
Şehid Namirin!
Bijî Şoreşa Rojava Bijî Berxwedana Efrînê!
Marxist Leninist Communist Party Rojava