Simon Dubbins, co-chair of the UK Campaign for Freedom of Öcalan, made a statement on attacks to Kobani and Rojava. Dubbins called on the British government to stop the attacks, saying, “We are making a very clear and very strong appeal to the UK government and the international community: Act now and act decisively.”
26 January 2026
What Happened?
26 January 2015—the day Kobanê was liberated—is also the day a free and equal life began to flourish. It marks the historic defeat of the ISIS mentality, which targeted women under a male-dominated mindset, enslaved and sold them in markets, by the women’s freedom struggle.
On that day, the resistance of women in Kobanê —against the gangs that besieged the city from all sides seeking to spread their dark ideology, and against the imperialist powers feeding those gangs—became the very foundation of the Rojava Revolution.”
The statement added: “Kobanê stands as a symbol of how a city devastated and burned by gangs can flourish again through a democratic, ecological, and women’s liberationist paradigm. It is the name of the place where the gains achieved through international women’s solidarity.
This way of life, built under the leadership of the women of Kobanê and Rojava, and dedicated to women across the world, has once again been targeted by the same mentality.
Those who were defeated in Kobanê in the past under the name of ISIS by women’s will are today attempting to besiege Kobanê, this time under the name of HTS, in order to suffocate the Rojava Revolution. The torture inflicted on the bodies of women fighters resisting this mentality, and the cutting and public display of their hair, are clear proof of their intolerance toward the free and equal life being built under women’s leadership in Rojava