MERSIN - In attacks on Rojava by HTS and Turkey-backed gangs, prisons holding DAISH members were specifically targeted, resulting in the release of many DAISH members. Drawing attention to this situation, Hüsniye Çelik of DAD said, “The world's security is under threat. The closest threat will be experienced in Turkey.”

 

From the moment HTS gangs appeared on the scene as the “Provisional Government” in Syria, they carried out massacres targeting the Alawite and Druze populations living in Syria's coastal areas. The attacks that began on January 6 against the neighborhoods of Sheikh Maqsood and Ashrafiya in Aleppo continue in Rojava. As part of the attacks, prisons holding DAISH gang members, who have a history of numerous massacres and genocides in 2014, were targeted, and many DAISH members have been released so far.

 

Hüsniye Çelik, Co-Chair of the Mersin Branch of the Democratic Alevi Associations (DAD), stated that the release of ISIS members threatens the security of the entire world, particularly the Middle East, and emphasized that all faiths and identities must speak out against the attacks on Rojava.

 

A free life was created in Rojava

 

Recalling the 2014 massacre attempt by the jihadist DAISH terrorist organization against the Kurdish people in Kobanê, Hüsniye Çelik said, "At that time, the Syrian Democratic Forces waged a struggle that earned the admiration of all corners of the world. Nearly ten years have passed, and a government has been established. An environment has been created in Rojava where all peoples and faiths live together freely and are represented. While the SDG's struggle against DAISH barbarism was met with admiration by the world public, at the point we have reached, all balances have changed. The Kurds have been left alone again."

 

Syria is being handed over to the DAISH ideology

 

Emphasizing that HTS and Colani also have an DAISH-like structure, Hüsniye Çelik said, "We watched with horror from here the massacres carried out against the Alawites and Druze, especially in the coastal areas, and their actions against women and children. The world public is also aware of this. They want to hand Syria over to such a structure. There is no acceptable side to this. Just yesterday, the Kurds, who are the indigenous people of Syria, faced massacres, and today they are telling the Kurds: Come and surrender to us. What can you trust to surrender to? Yesterday, they said the same thing to other peoples and did not stop the massacres. Three days ago, we witnessed what happened in Aleppo. We saw that the people who were killed were not only killed but also thrown from the fourth floor.”

 

Turkey's support

 

Hüsniye Çelik, who said that a peace process had begun on February 27, pointed out that at this stage, while the Turkish state was conducting peace talks with the Kurds, it was ignoring the blood ties between the Kurds and their relatives by disregarding the borders drawn in Lausanne and supporting the HTS despite its massacres. Referring again to the Turkish state's rhetoric of “we are siblings with the Kurds,” Hüsniye Çelik asked, “If we are siblings, then why do you choose to stand alongside a jihadist organization instead of supporting your own siblings’ struggle for existence?”

 

World security is under threat

 

Hüsniye Çelik reminded us that two years ago, the American public had tremendous admiration for the Syrian Democratic Forces, which stood in the way of the massacres committed by DAISH. "Now, as if nothing had happened, nearly 1,550 DAISH militants have been released. I believe these individuals will spread across Turkey, the world, and the Middle East. We know what massacres they have committed. Global security will be under threat. Since it is our own country that is closest, Turkey will be the closest threat. Time will tell us about these. But the past practices of such a mentality will set an example for tomorrow's practices. Trusting them and acting in this manner will not be in the interest of either us or other countries in the world."