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Hasakah- The Turkish state has intensified its attacks on Til Temir, a town in western North and East Syria’s Hasakah Canton. Kurdish, Arab and Syriac women living in Til Temir and the village of Til Cuma condemn the ongoing Turkish attacks.

78-year-old Meryem Yaqûb, a Syriac woman, told NuJINHA that many of her relatives have been displaced by the Syrian war. “We never betray our neighbors or our nation,” she said, “Our unity shows our power. We are people from different nationalities and beliefs living in the same territory and we protect our lands together. I was born and grew up here. I got married here and my grandchildren were born here. I cannot leave here (Til Temir). The displaced people face difficult living conditions. They always dream of returning to their homeland. We feel like we are in heaven when we are in our homeland. We will never allow our homeland to be occupied.”

‘We will resist the attacks’

73-year-old Gulçîn Mehûmd, a Kurdish woman, has lived in Til Temir since 1983. “We have Arab neighbors, we have very good relations with each other without having any problems. We always support and help each other. We have been suffering from the Turkish airstrikes for two days. But we will resist the attacks because we are not afraid of these attacks. We will not leave our homeland. If we are going to die, we will die in our homeland. We will always be in solidarity with each other against the attacks. We should be strong and grow our solidarity. We should not allow our enemy to realize its dream.”

‘The occupiers will fail’

75-year-old Erna Al-Xideyîr is an Arab woman living in the town of Til Temir. She said, “Kurdish, Arab and Syriac people live together for years. We do agriculture together; we plant seeds together and harvest our crops together. We have been in solidarity with each other for years. We will keep being in solidarity with each other. Our solidarity will set the occupiers up to fail. The occupiers will fail."