Gulan Botan/JINHA

QAMİŞLO - There is a weapon on the shoulder of one YPJ fighter and a child sit on the fighter's lap while smiling to her fearlessly. The smile of the child explains how hopes return to the life again. You also will understand what the smiling faces share when you look at the photographs of the fighters of the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) Kurdish People's Protection Unit (YPG).

Rojava people had great pain due to massacres and attacks carried out by Daesh. After Rojava Revolution, you can see smiling faces in Rojava now. The fighters of the Women's Protection Units (YPJ) Kurdish People's Protection Unit (YPG) began to protect their people on their lands with their will. We have learned more about the new sociality formed by these fighters each day. We follow every work carried out by the fighters and we notice that children learn how to smile again with these fighters. Then I understand that not only they liberated these lands, saved these people but also they make the hopes green and they plant the seeds of new life.

It isn't difficult to guess how long women and children waited for these fighters during war continued in Manbij. There is a weapon on the shoulder of one YPJ fighter and a child sit on the fighter's lap while smiling to her fearlessly. The smile of the child explains how hopes return to the life again. When we look at the photograh, we can understand how self-defense forces rose to the surface from society fed by self-love. The people give these fighters value and these fighters give the people value. Rojava is the home of the fighters and all people are their neighbors and relatives and children are their children.

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