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Bar Association Tahir ELÇİ and members of Diyarbakır Bar Association Administra-
tion Board visited Kobani on 30. 01. 2015 to see the situation in place and to find out
what can be done about in field of law and human rights along with some other issues.
For this purpose, on the same day a meeting was held with Şanlıurfa Governor İzettin
KÜÇÜK and District Governor Abdullah ÇİFTÇİ in Suruç. Afterwards there had been a
short meeting with HDP (Halkların Demokratik Partisi - Peoples' Democratic Party)
Şanlıurfa deputy Ibrahim AYIIAN and co-chair of PYD (Partiya Yekitiya Demokrat -
Democratic Union Party) Asya ABDULLAH in Suruç. After crossing Mürşitpınar entry
point, our committee had been welcomed by Kobani Canton Co-Prime Minister Enver
MUSLIM (a jurist by profession) and the accompanying committee. Head of Diyarbakır
Bar Association Tahir ELÇİ and Canton Prime Minister Enver VrÜSl-İlr1 .1olntly gave a
press statement to the repofters present at cİty square. Followİng the press statement the
neighbourhood was visited. During the tour Canton Prime Minister MÜSLİM shared
comprehensİve İnformatİon about the war with ISIS gangs and the resistance displayed
against them. Our committee observed that despite lack of military vehiçles, weapoffy
and with accompanying shortage of warriors Kurdish fighters waged a chest to chest
struggle against ISIS gangs and displayed an unprecedented heroic reslstance. Our
committee have observed that all the buildings in the city had been destroyed; city had
gone to rack and ruin; there was almost no civil person living in city; there were some
unexploded mortar shells and otherwarwastes in all streets of city; some human corp-
ses laİd uncovered on a few streets; water, electricity and other infrastructure services
had completely collapsed and in generaI the city is ceased to be suitable for housing.
President of the People's Supreme Court of Kobani Ferhan Hacı İSA during the meeting
aired his general views about the war took place:"In this World we have a right that
they are craving to breach. It is the right ofbeing a separate people, a nation. Governing
ourselves by our own will is our inbom right. Syrian regime and many international
bodies deny our right of self-governance to us; they deny the right of having our own
will be in the power to us; they deny our right of demanding the recognition of our na-
tion to us. We need to detach ourselves from this approach and from the regime in some
way or another. We do not like to be recognised as a part of another entity. We should
refuse to be related to another entity. Syrian regime is the Baas regime, an Arabic-
Islamic regime. This regime in no way recognizes us as we are. The regime which does
not accept us aS we are, cannot represent us in the intemational community. our war
with ISIS is a result of this refusal to recognition and behind the stage the regimes that
refuse to recognİse Kurds are the forces that set ISIS on us. After the outbreak of war in
Syria we established a self-governing system on our soils. It was a more or less working
and self- sufficient mechanism. However Baas-Islamic regime could not tolerate it and
made ISIS attack on us. This war was war of ignoring and destroying us. What we desi-
red was enabling Kurdish nation to be sovereign on their own soils. All Kurdish groups
outside Syria must let all the world know that this is our will. Kobani should not be
regarded as a part of Syrian opposition. We are not within the opposition of Syria. Du-
ring the preparatory steps of establishing Kobani system other ethnic and religious mi-
norities moved in here and found peace in Kobani. ISIS occupied our 388 villages.
Adding villages ofRakka to this figure, 429 of our villages had been occupied by ISIS.
They gave us hard times in here. They destroyed all infrastructure of villages to make
them uninhabitable. They even filled and closed our the potable water wells. They at-
tacked us to destroy humanity. They do not care about Islam. ISIS did not only decapi-
tate and abduct our civilians but they also attempted to cut our supply links and make us
starve with the aim of finishing us altogether. They attacked us with this purpose. For
this reason all kurds in the world need to be on the alert. we should be on the alert for
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