Rojava belongs to the people of Rojava Kurdish people must determine their own destiny, and the siege must be lifted.

Kurdish forces, which have been fighting for years to stop ISIS atrocities in Syria, a country considered to be an important element in the restructuring of the Middle East, have been caught in a vise since the advent of the Al-Qaeda-ISIS remnant Al-Shaara regime.

The March 10 agreement signed between the PYD and the Al-Shaara regime, which was left to its own course until the new year, has increasingly been used as a sword of Damocles against the Kurds. Since the beginning of the year, Syrian military forces have been attacking residential areas in Aleppo, mobilizing gangs from the civil war era and the so-called Syrian National Army forces supported by Turkey in a battle that has driven the Kurds out of two neighbourhoods and advanced from Raqqa to encircle Rojava.

The aim is to destroy the Kurdish canton formed in Rojava in northeastern Syria in 2012, and crush the Kurdish resistance. This is also the greatest ambition of the Erdoğan regime, which initiated the so-called “terror-free Turkey” process domestically and is now imposing its will on the Kurdish people in Syria in order to realize its own regional strategy by engaging in shuttle diplomacy between the US and Syria to extend this process to Syria.

In the current situation, the attacks and siege of Rojava, which the controlled media is promoting as Erdoğan’s victory, show that the Kurds are once again being tested with a betrayal and sellout agreement in the context of the regional design that local and international powers are developing step by step at the negotiating table and on the ground.

The forces pouncing together on Rojava include ISIS forces, now ready for instructions by the US to dismantle Rojava’s status; US imperialism, still fighting ISIS while collaborating with it; the Turkish government, encouraging armed gangs and declaring Al-Shaara a brother; and reactionary Middle Eastern dictatorships. Appointed colonial governor Tom Barrack is busy coordinating this united front.

Rojava belongs to the people of Rojava, and the fate of the region should be determined by all the peoples living there. Our party stands with the Rojava people, whom the Kurdish people have established and protected at the cost of their lives.

We must not remain silent in the face of a Kurdish massacre in Rojava; the demands of the Kurdish people must be recognized, and the siege must be lifted.

LABOUR PARTY (EMEP – TURKEY)

20 January 2026