Martyr Eylem Yıldız Battalion interview

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- Hello. First of all, let's start with the latest developments in Syria. How do Syria and Rojava take place in the axis of increasing imperialist aggression and popular resistance in the Middle East? Also, what would you like to say about possible future developments?

- First of all, the last week of January is a week when we commemorate our immortals, on this occasion we bow with respect in front of our immortals and reiterate our commitment to them. Ali Haydar Yıldız, Meral Yakar, Cemil Oka, Mehmet Zeki Şerit, Hayrettin Bakış, Ali Uçar, Zeki Uygun, Yel Mountain martyrs, Süheyla Dağdeviren, Munzur Keskin, Beşler, Yurdal Yıldırım Haydar Arğal, Murat Tekgöz, Cengiz İçli and our twelve comrades who were martyred in Dersim Aliboğazı and our general secretaries who were immortalised in the line of duty while leading our party, we hereby reiterate the promise that we will carry this uninterrupted war to the end with the excitement, patience and enthusiasm of the first day. History has given us the honour of being the comrades of hundreds of our immortals and we will be worthy of history.

Especially in the last two months, Syria has been at the top of the world agenda. The sixty-year-old Baathist regime collapsed in a short period of two weeks with the ‘counter-attack to prevent attacks’ launched by Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) against Aleppo. This is how the collapse of the Baathist regime is propagated in public opinion or in the international media. But we cannot look at it in this way. It is clear that there is no war between HTS and its affiliated jihadist gang groups and the Baath regime, and the war cannot be considered as a localised war. From this point of view, it would be more accurate to evaluate it as the mutual moves developed by the inter-imperialist rivalry in the Middle East.

After the attack of the Palestinian resistance groups against the Zionist state of Israel on 7 October 2023, Zionist Israel created a ground for its regional expansionism by justifying this attack. Israel's regional interests and the interests of NATO-oriented imperialist powers, especially US imperialism, intersected at the point of redesigning the region. And precisely for this reason, the Zionist state of Israel has received great support both financially and militarily from the NATO-orientated powers, especially the USA, Britain and Germany.

The US and EU-orientated imperialist bloc acted in agreement that Russia's advantageous position in the region must be weakened and Iran's hegemony in the region must be broken. For this purpose, weakening and destroying the local structures called the ‘axis of resistance’ affiliated to Iran, forcing Iran to withdraw to its own borders and depriving Russia of its bases in the region and ensuring its exit from the region were exactly where the interests of the US/NATO-oriented imperialist bloc and the Zionist state of Israel converged.

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