NEWS CENTER – One of those who took part in the struggle for victory in the resistance city of Kobanê was Iranian Emir Qubadi. Rojvan Kobanê as he was in the struggle. Qubadi was born in 1991 in the city of Mashhad in Khorasan province in northeastern Iran. Afterwards, Emir Qubadi, who went to Russia and lived there, came to the conclusion that going to Kobanê should be resisted against oppression and oppression, in response to the call of Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan, whom he describes as “the great world leader”, “All humanity must defend Kobanê” and seeks ways to join the struggle. He sets off from Russia in October 2014 and arrives in Rojava. “I join the YPG to defend the dignity of the peoples of Kobanê and the world. The blood of honorable people is being shed here.”
RISE LIKE THE SUN
He comes to Kobanê during the most intense attacks. Rojwan was born in his hometown of Khorasan, or in other words, from the place where the sun rises, in Kobanê. They fought back to back with Kurdish and Arab fighters in the resistance streets of Kobanê. Maybe he couldn’t speak the same language, but he impressed his comrades with his stance, assertiveness and morale. In a short time, he established warm relations with every friend at the front and became a partner in collective life. It solved the language problem in a short time. He was so devoted and devoted to the Fellowship that he improved his language skills within a month to further strengthen his relationships. He participated in the struggle life with great enthusiasm and effort, by facing all kinds of difficulties.
WAS MARTYR WHEN RESCUEING ITS WOUNDED FRIENDS
It was one of the firsts of the internationalist struggle that started in Kobanê and lasted for ten years. He was the first Persian international to die in the ranks of the resistance. As an Iranian, he did not accept the persecution and dictatorship of the regime in Iran, preferring Kobanê, where the freedom struggle was fought, with an internationalist attitude, and came to Kobanê as a protest against the oppressive system. It resisted in the spirit of the international revolutionary struggle. He was 23 years old, but he struggled for a lifetime. He was martyred while rescuing his friends who were injured in the operation to liberate the culture and art center in Kobanê city center on December 22, 2014. Previously, he had said, “The happiest moment in the Kobanê war was to save the life of a wounded comrade and save him from the conflict.” That’s what happened. With his great self-sacrifice, he saved a fighter who was wounded in the conflict.
CALLS ALL IRAN PEOPLE TO THE REVOLUTIONARY STRUGGLE
In a video he shot while fighting in the resistance positions in Kobanê, he called on all peoples in Iran to join the Kurdistan revolutionary struggle and said that Kurds and Persians are brothers and have a common history of 3000 years. In a statement to the Fırat News Agency (ANF) on December 18, 2014, four days before he was martyred, he said, “We did not come just for war. We came for a superior ideology; an ideology that insists on humanity” and expressed his determination to fight by saying “I am here until Kobanê is liberated”.
‘HE WAS A GOOD FOLLOWER OF LEADER APO’S PHILOSOPHY’
His comrades, with whom he fought in Kobanê, describe him as follows: “He was a man with deep ideas and a strong ideological perspective for the fraternity of the peoples and the freedom of the peoples of the Middle East. He was a friend who participated in the struggle to survive in these difficult conditions with great enthusiasm and effort. He was very eager, he was running ahead of every job and work. He participated in this resistance with the consciousness and spirit of freedom of all oppressed rights and displayed a great will in a short time. He was reading the books of Leader Abdullah Öcalan and trying to apply what he read in life. He was a good follower and implementer of Leader APO’s philosophy in creating a solution and will in every condition that did not see difficulties as an obstacle in his approach to war and struggle.”
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