“It’s not what people expect,” she said. “We’re not constantly locked in a life or death battle with bullets and mortars flying back and forth.”
Another misconception is that the real fight is against ISIS, she said.
“The real enemy is who Daesh works for,” she said, claiming that it’s really “Turkey’s genocidal [President Recep Tayyip] Erdogan… who will eventually turn Turkey into a dictatorship while trying to kill off the Kurds.”
Claims that Turkey supported the Islamic State go back more than a year, and it’s well-known that the Turkish government views the rise of Kurdish nationalism as a bigger threat to its security than the rise of ISIS.
After the Turkish military shot down a Russian plane last week, Russian leaders claimed that they have proof that Erdogan’s own family was involved in smuggling ISIS oil into Turkey. Erdogan said he would resign if that claim was proven true, and insists that his regime is working to diminish the threat of ISIS in the region. US officials said their NATO allies have been “great” in the fight against the Islamic State.
According
to Bohman, Westerners who left their countries and bypassed their
governments to fight ISIS are what has inspired her most since joining
the YPJ.
“There
aren’t many of us, but we represent a genuine concern for humanity,” she
said. “We believe in doing the right thing, in stopping evil, and
helping the helpless. We are the tip of a sword made up of people from
all around the world who will no longer wait for their governments to
fail again. We are [bringing] the change we want to see.”
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