TRIBUNE – Six French people who fought with Kurdish forces in Syria write an open letter to warn of the threats posed to France by the upheavals currently experiencing Syria.
French citizens, we left for Syria between 2015 and 2019 as volunteers to join the Kurdish fighting units of the YPG, spearhead of the Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), in the fight against Daesh. We did it not only to defend our country, which was suffering attacks from Islamic terrorism at that time, but also in support of the social project that the alliance of Kurds, Arabs and Christians carried for northern Syria: that of autonomy based on democracy, freedom, equality between women and men, and the defense of religious and ethnic minorities, notably the Yazidis. It is these same FDS who, at the cost of heavy losses and fierce fighting, managed to eliminate the caliphate of the Islamic State at the beginning of 2019, with the support of the international coalition of which France was part.
The events that have shaken Syria in recent days encourage us to speak out to alert the population…
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