Tens of thousands honour those massacred in Tishreen

  • actual
  • 16:44 21 January 2025
  • |
img

NEWS CENTER - With the participation of tens of thousands of people in Qamishlo, 7 people who were massacred in Tishreen were sent off to their last journey.

Today, a massive crowd, numbering in the tens of thousands from Jazera Canton, gathered to bid farewell to the Kurdish theater artist Bavi Tayyar, members of the Martyrs’ Families Council Kifo Othman and Akram Rikho, the co-chair of the Democratic Union Party office in Qamishlo, Maniha Haidar, members of the Qamishlo City Council Muzafar Muhammad and Abdul Qadir Ibrahim, who were martyred due to the Turkish airstrike on protesters at Tishrin Dam, as well as an SDF fighter, Khabat, who was martyred while confronting cells of the Ba’athist regime and the National Defense Forces in Deir ez-Zor.
 
People carried massacred people coffins on their shoulders and proceeded toward the Martyr Dalil Sarokhan Cemetery for the funeral ceremony.
 
According to the Hawar News Agency (ANHA), upon arrival at the cemetery, thousands of Kurds, Arabs, Armenians, and Syriacs, along with representatives of political parties, the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria in Jazera Canton, Kurdish and Arab tribal leaders, the Syrian Democratic Council, and religious figures, were waiting for the funeral procession. They chanted, raising victory signs, "With our soul and blood, we sacrifice for you, martyr,".
 
The brass band played, the mourners observed a minute of silence in honor of the massacred. Then, Fawza Youssef, a member of the co-chairs of the Democratic Union Party, said, "From Qamishlo, the capital of the martyrs, we salute the resistance of the Syrian Democratic Forces, the People’s Protection Units, the Women’s Protection Units, and our people. Long live the people who struggle for their freedom and dignity."
 
Stating that the Turkish state seeks to deny the existence of the communities in North and East Syria in the new Syria Fawza Youssef added, "They want to impose a centralized state where we have no rights. We are resisting for our freedom and dignity, and we will not submit to living in slavery."
 
She emphasized the necessity of guaranteeing the rights of the Kurdish people in Syria and stopping this war, stating: "We are open to solutions, but if they insist on war, we are ready for it. We will not allow the fall of Kobanî or Rojava. This is our pledge to our people."
 
Co-chair of the Democratic Islam Conference in North and East Syria Mohammed Mullah Rashid al-Gharzi, said that Tishreen Dam "has become the Dam of Resistance, the impenetrable dam against enemies, the Dam of the Martyrs."
 
Rehan Loqo, the spokesperson for Kongra Star, pointed out that the Turkish occupation state continues to target the peoples of North and East Syria, and that this is met with heroic resistance from the sons and daughters of the targeted communities. She stressed the importance of continuing the resistance.
 
Additionally, Kurdish poet Ferhad Mardi stated that the people of North and East Syria are closer than ever to achieving their rights. Addressing the massacred, theater artist Jumaa Khalil (Bavi Tayyar), he said: "If only you were here to see the crowds marching behind you and your comrades out of love and pride in your resistance."
 
Mardi highlighted what the Kurdish theater artist (Bavi Tayyar) left behind by heading to the dam and participating in the resistance there, saying: "This is a message to us and to all artists in Kurdistan, that theater is not just on stage, but also in real life. This message says: Here I am, I exist at Tishrin Dam. The true comedy of the final act, we witnessed it at Tishrin Dam."
 
During the ceremony, the martyrdom certificates of the seven massacred were read and handed over to their families before people carried their bodies on their shoulders to be laid to rest in the Martyr Dalil Sarokhan Cemetery.
 

View More Articles

31/03/2025
18:52 Prisoners in İmralı meet with their relatives
30/03/2025
13:20 Rojin Kabaiş and Narin Güran commemorated
13:04 Attacks continue despite ceasefire
12:44 Youth: Let's be at Amara with spirit of Newroz
11:11 HDK Co-Spokesperson: The issue is not CHP but democracy
10:31 Special regime in İmralı must change says DBP member
09:25 4 April invitation from Öcalan
09:05 Father of 2 HPG members whose bodies not returned: Steps must be taken for a solution
28/03/2025
14:01 BYC: Journalist Khan forcibly dissappeared for reporting violence
13:34 Austrian politicians: Turkey must heed Öcalan's message
11:25 4-month İmralı report: 'urgent' application to CPT
09:23 House raids in Ankara and Istanbul: 2 journalists detained
09:23 'New system cannot be built in Syria without participation of women'
09:22 One month passed since Abdullah Öcalan's call: Physical freedom must be ensured
09:21 Struggle for peace and democracy cannot be separated says Tunç Soyer
08:48 3 arrests in Ankara
08:13 Resistance at METU throughout the night
27/03/2025
20:15 Resistance vigil in Tishreen on its 78th day
16:08 BBC correspondent deported from Turkey
15:12 Journalist Egid Roj commemorated
14:19 Protests continue in Balochistan
13:50 10 people arrested in Izmir beaten in prison
13:18 Lawyers applies to meet with Abdullah Öcalan
11:41 LAB expresses solidarity with Eğitim Sen
10:54 BAC: No news of Baloch journalist
10:11 Ban on 11 areas in Şirnex
09:08 Journalists release from prison
09:01 House raids in Ankara
08:47 Detentions in METU protest
26/03/2025
08:49 Yves Henz: Freedom of Abdullah Öcalan is necessity
25/03/2025
17:11 7 journalists arrested
09:13 No step on the 'right to hope' for 154 days
24/03/2025
16:21 Protests continue in Balochistan
16:13 New move by women's movements in North and East Syria
15:31 194 soldiers to be sentenced for 'Return to Life'
15:00 Shelling on Sakiro village
14:49 9 lawyers detained
14:30 School boycotts at many universities: Racist attack on students in Cebeci
14:05 Turkey carries out thousand 45 attacks in 2 days
13:54 Youth march to Amara from Amed
13:03 Trustees appointed to 13 municipalities since local elections
12:56 DFG and MKG: Journalists must be released immediately
12:37 'Abdullah Öcalan's physical freedom must be ensured'
11:50 Istanbul Governorate files criminal complaint against Newroz Organising Committee
11:01 No news from detained Baloch women
10:40 Nightlong protests: Police violence spotted
09:36 'People embraced the call, government cannot ignore it'
08:17 Journalists detained
23/03/2025
17:29 Struggle is a right says DEM Co-chair Tülay Hatimoğulları
17:22 Imamoğlu suspended from office, trustee appointed in Şişli Municipality