With three bomb attacks this year including two massacres, many ask if the dark days of the Turkish deep state have come back to torment Turkey.
It now appears that Kobane will not fall. But Turkey’s apathy towards the plight of the city, coupled with their stealthy support for ISIS, is something the Kurds will never forget.
The revolution which has been taking place across Rojava (literally, ‘Western Kurdistan’), where three cantons were set up in January this year, has a grassroots democratic model.
Now, there are only the streets. And the streets are violent.