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NEWS CENTER –Internationalist fighter Ivana Hoffman, fighting alongside the YPG/YPJ against Daesh in Rojava, was killedin Til Temir on the eve of World Women's Day.

Ivana Hoffman (nom de guerre Avaşîn Tekoşîn Güneş) was a communist fighter with the Marxist-Leninist Communist Party (MLKP). According to the MLKP's announcement, Ivana lost her life in a 3 a.m. clash in the early morning hours of March 7, on the eve of World Women's Day.

The statement said that for Ivana, standing up for the Rojava revolution meant standing up for the future.It noted that she had taken up frontline positions in the bloody battle to defend Assyrian and Syriac villages from Daesh's genocidal attacks.

"After the Rojava revolution, her greatest dream was to take part in the struggle in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan. She was a seeker of freedom, with dreams of revolution," said the statement. "Avaşîn Têkoşîn Güneş, with her gleeful laugh, was our source of joy. In Tel Temir, we saw her off to her final rest and her immortality. Our pain is great. Our rage is as high as the mountains."

The internationalist fighter was born in Germany on September 1, 1995. She joined the communist youth movement at a young age and worked actively in her city. For the last six months, she had been fighting actively in the war in Rojava, taking up positions in several locations in Cizîre Canton. According to the statement, Avaşîn had been engaged in intense combat in the foremost positions in the defense of Tel Temir against Daesh attacks, ongoing over the last two days.

"Our comrade Avaşîn was a lover of freedom, determined to call everything to account, an internationalist communist who felt the pain of all peoples in her heart," said the statement. "Her life philosophy of opposing fascist dictatorship and colonization led her to fight, and to take the side of the Kurdish and Turkish people in their pain, their joy and their war. She sang Kurdish songs with love and spoke both Kurdish and Turkish.

"As an internationalist communist, she heard the call of revolution. She headed for Kurdistan and she saw the Kurdish people's freedom as her own."

The statement said that after the Rojava revolution, the fighter's greatest dream was to take her place in the struggle in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan.

"She was a seeker of freedom with dreams of revolution," read the statement.

(fk/cm)