The revolution in Rojava/ North and East Syria is entering its 13th year of existence, driven by the pioneering role of the Women’s Protection Units, which have taken a heavy burden on them in order to protect the peoples of the region. The YPJ has resisted all occupying forces and militias, and became a source of inspiration and great strength for all women around the world to stand up against all kinds of attacks.

The occupying Turkish state, which bases its existence on the extinction of the Kurdish people and the revolution, has seen the revolution from its beginning as a threat to itself, thus carrying out numerous attacks in order to obstruct and weaken the revolution from progressing. Feeling particularly threatened by the fact that this is a women’s revolution in its truest sense, the Turkish state has been especially targeting women and the leaders of this revolution. All courage, sacrifice, and hard work of the past 12 years have been made to protect all women in the world and humanity itself. The fighters and commanders of YPJ are not simply in their skills of warfare but also due to their ideological and political stance an example for all women to struggle against the consciousness of the dominant men, capitalist and hegemonic forces on multiple fronts. In this regard, targeting YPJ fighters and commanders does not mean to simply target the military defense of North and East Syria, the protection of the people, but the revolution as a whole.

In this brochure, we want to shed light on the lives of the YPJ fighters and commanders who were martyred in the year 2024 in assassinations by the Turkish state.