FiSyria: Emir Umar al-Chechen tells about fighting with Kurdish PKK militants

11 October 2013
Source: Kavkaz Center

A correspondent of the Syrian emigrant Mujahideen website FiSyria interviewed Emir Umar al-Chechen in connection with military confrontations in the area of border village Atma between the Mujahideen of the Islamic State of Iraq and Sham (ISIS) and criminal gangs of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK).
 
FiSyria: Peace be upon you.
 
Umar al-Chechen: And unto you peace.
 
FiSyria: There are many talks going on about battles with Kurds near Atma. Typically, each event is a mix of rumors, speculations, and sometimes blatant misinformation. There is a rumor that the ISIS and the PKK have reached a truce, even clauses of the truce are being discussed. We would like to clarify, when the truce was signed, and what clauses have been made?
 
Umar al-Chechen: There is no truce so far. Therefore, no clauses exist. There is an agreement on temporary cease of fire. And there is a huge difference between a temporary cease of fire and true armistice.
 
FiSyria: Yes, there is a difference between these concepts. And how did this conflict begin? What was the reason?
 
Umar al-Chechen: Some time ago, Kurdish militants seized a hill near the village of Atma and started firing at the road beneath. The ISIS Mujahideen reacted quickly to protect the Sunni population. The Kurds were driven off from the hill and suffered losses. Three Kurdish militants were killed. On our side, there were no losses.
 
Unfortunately, our fighters did not give proper attention to the developments and left the hill without any defensive facilities. As a result, three days later, PKK militants moved freely on these positions and established commanding posts there. And we had to storm the entrenched enemy.
 
FiSyria: Is there any information about the reason why Kurdish communists show aggression?
 
Umar al-Chechen: Captured Kurdish militants claim that they had to gain a foothold on the hills, as they were warned that their village is to be attacked by the ISIS Mujahideen. And the claim that alerted allegedly came from a senior officer in the Free Syrian Army (FSA).
 
FiSyria: Did they disclose the name?
 
Umar al-Chechen: They did. But naturally, we can not yet reveal it, relying solely on the testimony of prisoners. A Sharia investigation should be carried out
 
FiSyria: What combat troops participated in the storm of Kurdish positions and what were the losses on both sides?
 
Umar al-Chechen: In addition to our Mujahideen, units from Ahrar Sham, Al-Nusra Front and Levayat Dawood also participated. Our losses were 15 martyrs, not counting the wounded. Of these, 9 martyrs were from the Army of Emigrants and Supporters (AES).
 
As for the Kurdish side, we can not give fully accurate figures. On the positions after the storm, we found 3 dead women. One of them had a notebook on her body, in which the names of killed and wounded were listed. According to these data, 85 of them were killed. It is unclear who the woman was,
a commander or a person, responsible for medical care of the militants.
 
FiSyria: Yes, these figures are roughly consistent with our data. One of our Mujahideen, a Kurd by origin, told us that a relative from the village gave a figure of about 90 killed.
 
So, the participation of Kurdish women in the military units of the PKK is not a rumour? 
 
Umar al-Chechen: Yes, it is not a rumour. The PKK imposed a tough system on Kurdish population. It is a policy that could be called a "war communism". The communists keep a record on each individual family and impose different taxes.
 
In addition, each family must supply to the PKK military young men and women. If a family has 4 daughters, one of them has to go to serve in their army. In case of refusal, the house and property of the family is burned.
 
Here's a true mafia-communist system.
 
FiSyria: Military conflict in the Atma is not the only case of battles with PKK militants?
 
Umar al-Chechen: Yes, this is not the first clash. There are other cases. For example, when there was a conflict between the ISIS and a unit of the FSA, The Northern Storm, in Azaz, PKK militants fired from their checkpoint at Mujahideen in their back when they went on offensive.
 
About a month ago, there was a clash between the ISIS and the PKK in the area of Hasaka on the border with Iraq. Incidentally, it was there where 7 women were captured among other militants.
 
FiSyria: Yes, global infidelity uses against our Mujahideen any organization that professes a non-Islamic ideology. May Allah reward you with goodness, Umar.
 
Umar al-Chechen: You too.
 
Department of Monitoring
Kavkaz Center


Link: http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2013/10/11/18393.shtml

Azeri elite demands to ban headscarves

11 December 2010,

Elite of Azerbaijan has demanded a total ban on hijab in the country.

Chairman of the Parliamentary Committee for Culture, Nizami Jafarov, said he supports a ban of the hijabs in educational institutions:



"Hijab wearing must be totally forbidden at secondary schools. Girls have not been well-formed to have any religious ideas. A school has its own rules".



"We are not to become independent to wrapping up in a yashmak. The society has to struggle against such cases", said Secretary General of the Union of Azerbaijani Writers Rashad Majid.

According to him, he is against any woman wearing a headscarf:



"If someone wears hijab in private, at home, we have no right to oppose to it. However, Azerbaijan is a secular state. Parents' demand to girls to cover their heads is a provocation against Azerbaijan. It's like opposing the Constitution. Azerbaijani intelligentsia fought for freeing people from bigotry for years".



Chairman of the United Azerbaijan Popular Front Party, MP Gudrat Hasanguliyev, noted that hijab contradicts to the "Constitution": Hijab are religious clothes and attributes. So, the law forbids its existence at educational institutions. Unfortunately, the majority was in due time against adopting an article in the Constitution that openly bans the hijab".

Hasanguliyev also stressed, he supported the position of the Ministry of Education in this matter.


A professor at Baku State University, political analyst Rustam Mammadov noted that the attitude towards Islam changed after the collapse of the USSR, and due to that, women started to wear hijab: "I see an increase in hijab wearing girls in classrooms each year. It confuses our with Europeanized society. Propaganda of religious ideology will lead to serious conflicts".


Kavkaz Center


Source: Kavkaz Center

Link: http://kavkazcenter.com/eng/content/2010/12/11/13120.shtml.