Solidarity for the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) from Algeria

From the descendants of the beautiful women of Algeria

• to the Coordinator of Women’s Affairs in the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria,
• to the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) and to the members of the Women’s Protection Units,
• to the free women, our sisters in Kobani, Qamishlo, Derik, and Raqqa,

We write to you a letter of solidarity and support from the land of Algeria, where our mothers experienced the first shot of freedom.

Greetings,

The descendants of the beautiful women of Algeria address you from the mountains of Aurès, Ouarsenis, and Dahra, where the first shots of national liberation were launched in the 1950s.

We followed with pride and reverence your legendary steadfastness in the Battle of Kobani for 134 days. We followed how Commander “Meryem Kobani” stood on the eastern front, and how Commander “Rojda Felat” led the attack on the 45th night.

You proved to the world that the will of women is capable of defeating the most brutal terrorist organizations, and that land is liberated by the hands of its women.

Our sisters, we understand the meaning of what you said to ISIS: “This is our land, these are our women, and we will not be broken.” Just as the beautiful women of Algeria once said to French colonialism: “We belong to the homeland.”

Today, we see that there are new forces trying to push you backward, under the pretext of “biological nature and social conditions.” We heard the same argument in Algeria after independence in 1962, addressed to the women fighters. The response of Djamila Bouhired was: “The revolution does not end as long as there is injustice.”

We heard about you, and we knew that the revolution does not die.

You faced ISIS, then the government.

ISIS besieged you for 134 days in Kobani, thinking you were weak.

It found Rojda Felat leading the attack on the 45th night, saying: “This land holds the graves of our mothers.” It found Meryem Kobani burying Zilan, Roken, and Norshin, then returning to the front and killing 23 ISIS militants. It found Arin Mirkan blowing herself up to break the siege of death. It found Asia Ramazan Antar saying: “I carried a weapon because I love life,” and you defeated them with your rifles.

Then came the new Syrian government.

After you liberated Syria from ISIS, the government said: “The biological nature and social conditions of women do not allow them to fight within the military system.” It closed the doors of the army and security forces in your faces, as if those who liberated Kobani and faced car bombs are not fit to protect the homeland.

Yours is the preservation of memory and historical narrative, for the end of military operations does not mean the end of the battle.

You have our absolute solidarity. We will stand with you in every international forum, every statement, and every diplomatic arena. We will tell the world that the women who liberated Kobani and faced ISIS are capable of building Syria.

We are with you, because our cause is one. From Algeria to Kobani, from the blood of the martyr to the heartbeat of the free woman, peace upon your steadfastness, and peace upon your victory.

We heard about you, and we knew that the revolution does not die.

You faced ISIS, then the government.

Long live the resistant of women.

Long live the Women’s Protection Units (YPJ).

Long live a free and democratic Syria.

Sharifa Khaddar

President of Jazairuna

Algeria, May 3, 2026