KOBANE – Before September 2014, Kobanê was a small city that was not known much even in Kurdistan. With the resistance of the Rojava Defense Forces led by the Kurds against the advance of the ISIS mercenaries in Syria after Mosul, which was revealed by the political Islamists, these regions were featured more in the media, and the public was beginning to follow the regions they had not heard of before. Socialists and revolutionaries all over the world are looking for ways to join the historical monumental human resistance in Kobanê. European, USA and Scandinavian countries, as well as revolutionary organizations in Turkey, are coming to Kobanê by crossing the borders to join this struggle led by the Kurds. That’s when the earth falls apart, so to speak, and the world falls on those who want to rule by smearing the region with blood. The resistance ring, which started with as many people as the number of fingers in Kobanê, grows and becomes colorful day by day. It leaves behind racism and ethnic discrimination.
In our file, from Paramaz Kızılbaş to Giovanni Francesco Asperti, from Anna Campbell to Samuel Prada Leon, from Ceren Güneş to Jac Holmes, from Ayşe Deniz Karacagil, popularly known as the ‘Girl with the Red Fair’, to Nicholas Alan Warden, Kobanê We will share the martyrs of the internationalist revolutionary struggle and their struggles in the struggle that reached the Rojava Revolution Victory.
A PERSON OF A SOCIALIST FIGHTING FAMILY
The first martyr of this long-lasting internationalist revolutionary struggle was Suphi Nejat Ağırnaslı. Born to an originally Armenian family in 1984, Suphi Nejat Ağırnaslı was named after Mustafa Suphi and Ethem Nejat, the founders of the Communist Party of Turkey (TKP), who were drowned in Trabzon in 1921 with 14 of his friends. For Suphi, who wants to fill every moment of his life with struggle, it must be correct to say that the socialist revolutionary struggle is a family legacy. His family is politically exiled for actively participating in socialist movements in Turkey. It should be noted that Niyazi Ağırnaslı, who was the lawyer of pioneering revolutionary leaders in Turkey such as Deniz Gezmiş, Yusuf Aslan and Hüseyin İnan, is also his grandson.
Having studied sociology at Marmara University in Turkey after her education in Germany, Suphi had to leave the university due to the attacks of the fascists and continued her education at Boğaziçi University in Istanbul. It organizes student groups throughout the process of studying at the university and ensures the preparation of many cultural and artistic products. As well as researching the history of Turkey and the surrounding countries, he will have deep and extensive knowledge of revolutionary leftism and the struggles of workers throughout history. Suphi, who was arrested on April 29, 2011 within the scope of the KCK case, because the curriculum was called an ‘organizational document’, states the following:
“As an active socialist, I regard the struggle of the Kurdish Freedom Movement as my own tradition in my heart, and try to position myself as an organic part of the Turkish revolutionary movement. Since all the political activities I have carried out so far are ultimately related to Turkey’s most fundamental political problem, the Kurdish issue, I have been included in the bucket. The 30-year struggle of the Kurdish people is a legitimate struggle to the end and in all its dimensions. If we can talk about the Kurdish issue in Turkey today, it is thanks to the spark lit by Mazlum Doğans.”
FROM ISTANBUL TO KOBANÊ: FROM STUDENTS TO THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE
Aydın, writer, historian, sociologist and revolutionary, Suphi hears about the Kobanê Resistance while she is doing her master’s degree at the Bosphorus Department of Sociology and turns her direction to the struggle and its resistance. As a member of the MLKP (Marxist Leninist Communist Party), he made his name Paramaz Kızılbaş in the ranks of the struggle. It takes its name from the Armenian revolutionary socialist Paramaz (Madteos Sarkisyan), who was tortured and executed by the Ottoman Empire on 15-16 June 1915, along with 19 of his comrades.
Paramaz Kızılbaş states the following in the letter he wrote to his family before joining the Kobanê defense:
I learned that you can try to socialize it to a higher level. This is the closest I’ve come to the truth in my life.
a fugitive born in Söke, from Duisburg, Turkey, from Clauberg; As I am whatever I am in Turkey, I don’t regret anything. In fact, every misfortune in life is an opportunity that contributes to people when it is a winner. My only concern was never growing up, not being a part of the grown-up world, always being a kid… Now I’m going to Neverland just like Peter Pan, never to grow up. Nothing could make me more happy than that. I wish you to create the seeds of a great breakthrough that will fascinate ordinary working people’s lives and produce ordinary heroes in the west of Turkey, and the pioneer and rearguard organization of truth-seeking.
Every heart is a revolutionary cell!
Imagination to power!!!”
REACHES MARTYR IN MİŞTENUR
Paramaz Kızılbaş, who fought in many resistance fronts in Kobanê, fell martyr while fighting on the resistance fronts on Miştenûr Hill on October 5, 2014 in the city of Kobanê, where clashes were intense. However, his body was found 15 months later, in December 2015. His father, Hikmet Acun, said in a statement on his personal virtual media account, “We found Nejat’s body 15 months later. In accordance with the declaration of will Nejat made in his own record, we will bury him as an ‘internationalist revolutionary’ in the lands he belongs to, in Kobanê, in the coming days. Together with him, to ISIS gangs. We will entrust him to his comrades who have fought for a free Rojava against him.”
Martyr was buried in Dîcle Cemetery with a magnificent ceremony held in Kobanê on December 15, 2015. His father Hikmet Acun and Nuran Ağırnaslı use the following expressions:
“O honorable warriors, Kobanê is the door of honorable history and I am glad that you entered this door with Paramaz, I am glad that you liberated this holy land in Kobanê. I put Nejat’s heart, his heart in your heart. Because Nejat, to be a scream, goes to Kobanê He came to be a hope. You opened the door of Rojava, you accepted us. We also say: Rojava is our home, we, you are Rojava now, we will come, we are humanity, here you saved humanity. Paramaz wanted something like that. And he achieved his wish and purpose. I entrust Paramaz to you.”
TOMORROW: International Martyrs of the Rojava Revolution – II
