Sorgul Kobanê/JINHA

TIL TEMIR - Nesrîn Wîlsin Gulyat, an Assyrian woman who has been fighting for her village in Khabur when Daesh attacked the historically Assyrian region of Rojava, has called on migrants to return to defend their homeland from genocidal Daesh attacks.

When Daesh attacked the villages of Khabur, near the city of Til Temir in Rojava's Cizîrê Canton, Assyrian, Syriac and Chaldean people were forced to abandon their homeland in large numbers. Nesrîn, 31, refused to leave. Nesrîn a mother of three who has been taking part in the defense of Khabur at the same time as she keeps open her small shop.

"This is our city, our land and our country," said Nesrîn. "How could I leave this behind and go? We were born in this land; we grew up in this land," she said. "Here, all different peoples live here together in fraternity."

She denounced Daesh's tactics of killing children, abducting and selling women, and terrorizing populations to force people to migrate. "These tactics will bring their own end," she said.

Nesrîn noted that people in Khabur see the YPG/YPJ forces, who have joined Assyrian self-defense units in the defense of Til Temir, as a successful force in the region. She called on Assyrian women to join the resistance in the region, saying that everyone needs to defend themselves and their own lands.

(şg/fk/cm)