Freedom News: **Turkey blocks People’s Caravan to Kobane**
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/01/29/turkey-blocks-peoples-caravan-to-kobane/
Sixteen arrested as main caravan regroups in Greece (interview) ~ Gabriel Fonten ~ Sixteen members of the People’s Caravan to Kobane, who w…
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#News #HTS #Internationalism #Kobane #Kurdistan #PeoplesCaravantoKobane #Rojava #Solidarity #Syria #Turkey
Freedom News: **Kurdish community members plead ‘not guilty’ to PKK charges**
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/01/28/kurdish-community-members-on-trial-over-pkk-charges/
Trial seen as part of increased bilateral cooperation between the UK and Türkiye ~ Tom Anderson ~ The trial of six members of London’s Kurdish c…
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#News #Kurdistan #Pkk #Terrorism #Trial #Turkey #UK
@morgan @suzannealdrich @cstross These people lived in gold encrusted marble palaces, wore the finest clothing, never lacked for a warm fire and ate the best foods and had the best doctors of their era. It didn't save any of them. What would have saved them are a series of inexpensive, widely available childhood immunizations with extremely high safety profiles.
@Infoseepage @suzannealdrich @cstross I binged through the @empirepoduk podcast, haven't finished it, but listened to 150+ episodes. It's good.
There was a fascinating one where a British woman brought the concept and technology of #smallpox #inoculation home with her from #Turkey...
Here it is:
'She was a pioneering scientist, proto-feminist, and letter writer extraordinaire. Lady Mary Wortley Montagu escaped a marriage to Clotworthy Skeffington to become one of history's most incredible women. Listen this week as William and Anita are joined by Katie Hickman to tell the tale of her life.'
'Clotworthy Skeffington,' I think that might be my next fake name.
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We, the faculty, students, and staff of the Universities in Rojava/Northern and Eastern Syria, send you this message as we leave our classrooms to help defend our universities, our cities, and our revolution alongside the self-defense forces. Before the autonomous administration, Raqqa (Sharq) and Kobanê had no universities. Our campuses, built in the midst of war, have reclaimed long-denied education to young people, grounding learning in women’s liberation, ecology, and a democratic, communal life for the people.
For the past fifteen years in Rojava/Northern and Eastern Syria, under constant pressure and repeated attacks by imperial, sub-imperial, and colonial powers, our people have built a shared life through collective capacity. Against capitalism and patriarchy, we have worked to advance a society rooted in women’s liberation, ecological life, and democratic self-rule. Under the conditions of war across the region, and against the violence and impositions of regional states and their mercenaries, we relied on our own self-defense and our own diplomacy to carve out space, and within that space, we struggled to build a life that once seemed impossible.
Today, that life is under attack. What we have built, this source of hope for oppressed peoples in the region and around the world, is being targeted from all sides by the fascist forces of the Syrian Arab Army, an al-Qaeda lineage rebranded into state authority and dressed in suits, and by mercenaries, backed by regional and global imperial powers.
We are living through an unfolding feminicide and genocide. The situation on the ground is urgent and worsening by the day. Our university buildings are full of displaced people trying to survive the winter without blankets or extra clothing. Turkish drones have targeted several places near the University of Rojava in Qamishlo during the last few days. Students in the dormitories in Qamishlo are cut off from their families in Kobanê, not knowing if their loved ones are safe, and unable to reach them.
The situation in Kobanê is particularly dire. The city is currently under siege, surrounded by Syrian Army forces on one side and the Turkish army on the other. For seven days, there has been no electricity, no access to water, and no reliable access to basic necessities. Under these conditions, learning, safety, and survival are being targeted as part of a coordinated siege.
We say this clearly to our friends, colleagues, and comrades: we will defend ourselves with everything we have. We will defend our people, our universities, and the possibility of the life we have struggled to build.
We call on you, wherever you are, to stand with Rojava. Raise your voice. Organize on your campuses, in your unions, and in your communities. Use your positions, however limited they may feel, to push for action, to demand accountability, and to refuse silence. Strengthen the networks of solidarity that make resistance possible. Stand up for the revolutionary aims of freedom, women’s liberation, ecological life, and democratic communal life. Your solidarity is part of our self-defense, and it can help shift the balance and prevent yet another genocide in the region.
Universities in Rojava/Northern and Eastern Syria
University of Rojava,
Kobani University,
University of Al-Sharq Students,
Faculty and Staff
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Rojava Is Fighting for Its Survival
> For days now, the Syrian interim government, together with Islamist mercenaries, has been carrying out attacks on Rojava, a de facto autonomous region in northeastern Syria. Not only is a humanitarian #catastrophe imminent, but also the end of the #Kurdish self-government.
> [..] After the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December 2024, the Islamist militia Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), under Ahmed al-Sharaa, seized control of large parts of the region. As a historic al-Qaeda affiliate, HTS lacks both viable administrative structures and broad societal legitimacy.
> Nevertheless, Western states, especially the United States, have signaled an early strategic interest in the militia’s political rise. For the United States, the UK, and the EU, al-Sharaa appears as a weak actor that does not control large parts of the country and can thus be easily co-opted into long-term geopolitical interests in the Middle East. Since seizing power, HTS has presented a diplomatic front to the outside world, while repression and #massacres are the rule internally. Alawites in Latakia, Druze in Suweida, and now Kurds have been targeted.
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/rojava-kurds-sdf-syria-war/
https://mastodon.social/@newsblogkurdistan/115956317738590318
https://journa.host/@NatalieDavis/115957221805865847
#Aleppo #DAANES #jihadist #revolution #SheikhMaqsoud #Turkey #attacks #Syria #Kurdistan #ISIS #UN #Rojava #Islamist #HumanitarianCrisis #MiddleEast #Druze #Kurds #Alawites #AlQaeda #HTS #AhmedalSharaa
Rojava Is Fighting for Its Survival
> For days now, the Syrian interim government, together with Islamist mercenaries, has been carrying out attacks on Rojava, a de facto autonomous region in northeastern Syria. Not only is a humanitarian #catastrophe imminent, but also the end of the #Kurdish self-government.
> [..] After the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in December 2024, the Islamist militia Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS), under Ahmed al-Sharaa, seized control of large parts of the region. As a historic al-Qaeda affiliate, HTS lacks both viable administrative structures and broad societal legitimacy.
> Nevertheless, Western states, especially the United States, have signaled an early strategic interest in the militia’s political rise. For the United States, the UK, and the EU, al-Sharaa appears as a weak actor that does not control large parts of the country and can thus be easily co-opted into long-term geopolitical interests in the Middle East. Since seizing power, HTS has presented a diplomatic front to the outside world, while repression and #massacres are the rule internally. Alawites in Latakia, Druze in Suweida, and now Kurds have been targeted.
https://jacobin.com/2026/01/rojava-kurds-sdf-syria-war/
https://mastodon.social/@newsblogkurdistan/115956317738590318
https://journa.host/@NatalieDavis/115957221805865847
#Aleppo #DAANES #jihadist #revolution #SheikhMaqsoud #Turkey #attacks #Syria #Kurdistan #ISIS #UN #Rojava #Islamist #HumanitarianCrisis #MiddleEast #Druze #Kurds #Alawites #AlQaeda #HTS #AhmedalSharaa
We, the faculty, students, and staff of the Universities in Rojava/Northern and Eastern Syria, send you this message as we leave our classrooms to help defend our universities, our cities, and our revolution alongside the self-defense forces. Before the autonomous administration, Raqqa (Sharq) and Kobanê had no universities. Our campuses, built in the midst of war, have reclaimed long-denied education to young people, grounding learning in women’s liberation, ecology, and a democratic, communal life for the people.
For the past fifteen years in Rojava/Northern and Eastern Syria, under constant pressure and repeated attacks by imperial, sub-imperial, and colonial powers, our people have built a shared life through collective capacity. Against capitalism and patriarchy, we have worked to advance a society rooted in women’s liberation, ecological life, and democratic self-rule. Under the conditions of war across the region, and against the violence and impositions of regional states and their mercenaries, we relied on our own self-defense and our own diplomacy to carve out space, and within that space, we struggled to build a life that once seemed impossible.
Today, that life is under attack. What we have built, this source of hope for oppressed peoples in the region and around the world, is being targeted from all sides by the fascist forces of the Syrian Arab Army, an al-Qaeda lineage rebranded into state authority and dressed in suits, and by mercenaries, backed by regional and global imperial powers.
We are living through an unfolding feminicide and genocide. The situation on the ground is urgent and worsening by the day. Our university buildings are full of displaced people trying to survive the winter without blankets or extra clothing. Turkish drones have targeted several places near the University of Rojava in Qamishlo during the last few days. Students in the dormitories in Qamishlo are cut off from their families in Kobanê, not knowing if their loved ones are safe, and unable to reach them.
The situation in Kobanê is particularly dire. The city is currently under siege, surrounded by Syrian Army forces on one side and the Turkish army on the other. For seven days, there has been no electricity, no access to water, and no reliable access to basic necessities. Under these conditions, learning, safety, and survival are being targeted as part of a coordinated siege.
We say this clearly to our friends, colleagues, and comrades: we will defend ourselves with everything we have. We will defend our people, our universities, and the possibility of the life we have struggled to build.
We call on you, wherever you are, to stand with Rojava. Raise your voice. Organize on your campuses, in your unions, and in your communities. Use your positions, however limited they may feel, to push for action, to demand accountability, and to refuse silence. Strengthen the networks of solidarity that make resistance possible. Stand up for the revolutionary aims of freedom, women’s liberation, ecological life, and democratic communal life. Your solidarity is part of our self-defense, and it can help shift the balance and prevent yet another genocide in the region.
Universities in Rojava/Northern and Eastern Syria
University of Rojava,
Kobani University,
University of Al-Sharq Students,
Faculty and Staff
Freedom News: **State integration forced on Rojava**
https://freedomnews.org.uk/2026/01/20/state-integration-forced-on-rojava/
Islamist attacks and great-power manoeuvres place the revolution in existential threat ~ Blade Runner ~ Recent weeks’ clashes between Syrian …
The post State integration forced on Rojava appeared first on Freedom News.
#News #World #HTS #Kurdistan #Rojava #SDF #Syria #Turkey #YPJ
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Honestly, I think the liberation of Islamic State/Daesh by Turkish-backed Syrian jihadists worry me more than the latest Twitter stunts about Greenland.
We *really* don't want to have the
Islamic state resurrected just because of Erdogan's geopolitic ambitions. Have we forgotten how the Kurdish and Syrian fighters liberated the world from this menace?
As @b9AcE wrote somewhere today: "This is a threat against you wherever you are."
https://todon.eu/@b9AcE/115922060006439019
The (naturally imperfect) project of Rojava is an example for a positive society in the region and the world. Now is the moment to show them our support.
Accounts to follow for news about Rojava and the conflict in Syria:
@a_in_nes (very good english coverage)
@KCK_Kurdistan_ (ENG)
@ksild (ES)
@newsblogkurdistan (DE)
@wdr (DE)
@rofaustin (PT)
@Libre_Flot (FR)
feel free to recommend other accounts below! 
#Daesh #IslamicState #ISIL #HTS #Syria #Kurdistan #YPG #YPJ # SDF #Riseup4Rojava #Turkey #Turkyie #Erdogan #Jolani
As if coordinated by Erdoğan, now there is also report of mass-escapce attempts at the al-Hol camp where are held most of the ISIL/Daesh terrorists whom countries worldwide refused to take back home to ensure they don't return to commit more atrocities worldwide after being captured by the SDF-alliance,
as so many previous times Turkey aided ISIL/Daesh by sending them arms and intel during their "Caliphate", aiding previous escapes by battlefield surrendered ISIL-terrorists, etc.
Honestly, I think the liberation of Islamic State/Daesh by Turkish-backed Syrian jihadists worry me more than the latest Twitter stunts about Greenland.
We *really* don't want to have the
Islamic state resurrected just because of Erdogan's geopolitic ambitions. Have we forgotten how the Kurdish and Syrian fighters liberated the world from this menace?
As @b9AcE wrote somewhere today: "This is a threat against you wherever you are."
https://todon.eu/@b9AcE/115922060006439019
The (naturally imperfect) project of Rojava is an example for a positive society in the region and the world. Now is the moment to show them our support.
Accounts to follow for news about Rojava and the conflict in Syria:
@a_in_nes (very good english coverage)
@KCK_Kurdistan_ (ENG)
@ksild (ES)
@newsblogkurdistan (DE)
@wdr (DE)
@rofaustin (PT)
@Libre_Flot (FR)
feel free to recommend other accounts below!
#Daesh #IslamicState #ISIL #HTS #Syria #Kurdistan #YPG #YPJ # SDF #Riseup4Rojava #Turkey #Turkyie #Erdogan #Jolani
As if coordinated by Erdoğan, now there is also report of mass-escapce attempts at the al-Hol camp where are held most of the ISIL/Daesh terrorists whom countries worldwide refused to take back home to ensure they don't return to commit more atrocities worldwide after being captured by the SDF-alliance,
as so many previous times Turkey aided ISIL/Daesh by sending them arms and intel during their "Caliphate", aiding previous escapes by battlefield surrendered ISIL-terrorists, etc.
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Sometimes a #rainbow is just that. Not sure this makes for good photography but it was definitely an impactful goodbye to 2024.
December 2024
#Istanbul #Turkey #photography #skyscape #editbacklog #artWithOpenSource #darktable
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« #SANA, the Syrian national news agency, is adopting the narrative and strategies of fake news and disinformation of the main Turkish news channels. We can also find the same twisted narratives on the Qatari funded channels of #AlJazeera, blaming #SDF of attacks on civilians that did not take place, or of SDF stopping civilians from evacuating from Deir Hafer. They depict the massacre that is taking place in Alepo as provoked by SDF, as if #STG would rightfully have the control in all Aleppo and SDF came to disrupt it, and now finally STG 'liberated' #Aleppo from SDF. Such disinformation campaign builds a narrative that justifies further tensions and attacks against the territories of the Autonomous Administration»
« #SANA, the Syrian national news agency, is adopting the narrative and strategies of fake news and disinformation of the main Turkish news channels. We can also find the same twisted narratives on the Qatari funded channels of #AlJazeera, blaming #SDF of attacks on civilians that did not take place, or of SDF stopping civilians from evacuating from Deir Hafer. They depict the massacre that is taking place in Alepo as provoked by SDF, as if #STG would rightfully have the control in all Aleppo and SDF came to disrupt it, and now finally STG 'liberated' #Aleppo from SDF. Such disinformation campaign builds a narrative that justifies further tensions and attacks against the territories of the Autonomous Administration»
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