PUK Political Bureau Releases Statement Urging Further Actions to Protect Kobani
PUK Political Bureau has issued a statement over the emerging military development in Kobani, Kurdish city in Western Kurdistan Kobani, which and its surroundings have been under attack by ISIS militants for weeks. The following is the statement script:
Dears courageous people and Peshmerge of Kobani,
Freedom-fighting people of Western Kurdistan,
The U.S.-led coalition against ISIS,
At first, we on behalf of PUK Politburo salute all the brave Peshmerge forces standing in the frontlines of Kobani against the ISIS, and having taken their trenches tightly enough to defend the Kurds andKurdistan. They have deemed Kobani clear and measurable criterion for the international policy on maintaining the democratic struggle of the Kurds and the region. We salute you one by one; you are the inimitable forces in the Middle East.
Over the course of having a bright history of struggle recorded by the Kobani combatants who have been engaged into a war of either to die or survive, PUK Politburo finds it necessary to reaffirm its commitment and support for theWestern Kurdistan. Besides, it confirms that ISIS is the true foe of freedom, peace and reconstruction. Principally, ISIL has no friends, but it has only enemies. The whole nations, countries and freedom-fighters of the area consider the ISIS to be their own enemy. The reason why they declared “Khilafat” or the Islamic state on regional territories is due to the fact that they are not merely aiming at Iraq and Syria, but also it is meant to be covering the entire Islamic states in the bigger Middle East andAsia. Therefore, if there is a country assuming that it can be going well with the ISIS, unquestionably, it continues in the strategically mistaken belief that its policy about the area could be about to right. Since according to the ISIS, anyone who is not on its ideological side (Salafi jihadist) is considered to be its enemy.
Bearing this in mind, there has been recently an anti-ISIS coalition from 29 states, and the threat ISIS poses to the region has been a wake-up call for regional nations to get serious stance. Despite having shown soften position, even the moderate Islamic forces are also subject to be assaulted by the ISIS whenever it is possible. Obviously, there is an enemy so-called ISIS that is against everyone; specifically, it poses a big threat to the Kurds and Christians in the Southern and WesternKurdistan. What other solid evidence then is needed for the western and super power countries to come to convince that the Kurds have done enough to confront and fight against the ISIS?
Thus, PUK considers it its duty to urge the entire states within the anti-ISIS coalition to accelerate their efforts reaching out to the Kobani, regardless of the former political calculations and not yet officially accepted the existence of theWestern Kurdistan’s cantons (which they are really required to be officially recognized and supported). At the moment, there is a fiercely fateful battle on the ground in the Western Kurdistanand particularly in Kobani. The Peshmerge forces have for days held off an ISIS onslaught pushing its way into Kobani, and ISIS militants have now besieged the city on three sides aiming the city to fall to them. Undoubtedly, the city is not only military but also politically surrounded by ISIS, in order to expand the geographical territory of the ISIS power and through which the establishment of its Islamic State is to be further secured in Iraq, Syria as well as Southern and Western Kurdistan. As long as this is done, ISIS will spread out its authority over larger area in the region. The battle against ISIS in Kobani is not only to do with defense, but also it has to do with destroying the ISIS’s occupation map because its threat and danger will be bigger than they appear once its aggressive intention is made. Hence, we are demanding further clear action by regional and European states to help defend Kobani and stave off ISIS’s advance to the city before it is too late.The defeat of ISIS in Kobani would be a prelude to degrade and destroy its capability in Syria and then in Iraq including Kurdistan. Conversely, the success of ISIS in Kobani is going to make a huge threat to the entire military directions.
Therefore, we call for an urgent joint meeting by the anti-ISIS allied states with the aim of setting a joint military roadmap concerning Kobani and the Western Kurdistan alongside the military plan set generally for Syria. It is recommended that the intended meeting has to be held in cooperation with the Kurdistan Region in order to make effective outcome in the ground. Moreover, there should be a joint decision keeping Turkey, after revealing its stance against ISIS, to make its efforts within a joint plan. We are certain that the Islamic Republic of Iran has in the first place made its position clear against ISIS, and it is doing its best in this regard.
Political Bureau
Patriotic Union of Kurdistan
07.10.2014
