{"id":581,"date":"2017-10-05T13:21:05","date_gmt":"2017-10-05T11:21:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/avahi.noblogs.org\/?p=581"},"modified":"2017-10-05T13:21:05","modified_gmt":"2017-10-05T11:21:05","slug":"aktuelles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/avahi.noblogs.org\/en-US\/post\/2017\/10\/05\/aktuelles\/","title":{"rendered":"Update"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/avahi.noblogs.org\/files\/2017\/10\/20170927-20170927-semalka1a69ad-image3ef39d-image.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-577\" src=\"https:\/\/avahi.noblogs.org\/files\/2017\/10\/20170927-20170927-semalka1a69ad-image3ef39d-image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"990\" height=\"500\" srcset=\"https:\/\/avahi.noblogs.org\/files\/2017\/10\/20170927-20170927-semalka1a69ad-image3ef39d-image.jpg 990w, https:\/\/avahi.noblogs.org\/files\/2017\/10\/20170927-20170927-semalka1a69ad-image3ef39d-image-300x152.jpg 300w, https:\/\/avahi.noblogs.org\/files\/2017\/10\/20170927-20170927-semalka1a69ad-image3ef39d-image-768x388.jpg 768w, https:\/\/avahi.noblogs.org\/files\/2017\/10\/20170927-20170927-semalka1a69ad-image3ef39d-image-500x253.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 990px) 100vw, 990px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p lang=\"en-US\" align=\"justify\">In the past few weeks we have been intensively preparing for our departure to the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria \/ Rojava. Flights were booked, errands done, last agreements made. We said our farewells to family and friends and reorganized our everyday life so far as to escape the same for several months.<\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Despite of other announcements and hopes, we still are not on our long-planned collective construction site in Rojava. In addition to the state of war and the terror of Islamic gangs, it is above all the embargo imposed from all bordering states against Rojava, which makes entry difficult. In the case of Rojava, embargo means not only the prevention of the export and import of goods, food, medicine or machines, but also the impossibility of people&#8217;s freedom of movement. <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">As long ago as<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> 2011, the beginning of the revolution in Rojava, Turkey has been massively blocking aid supplies and border crossings of Kurds, refugees and activists. Since January 2016, the approximately 911 km long border to Turkey has been completely closed. Attempted border crossings are intercepted with <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">force of <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">weapons. <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Furthermore a 700 km long boundary wall, equipped with video cameras and sensors, has been completed in the middle of this year. <\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"en-US\">In the <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">S<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">outh, the access to Rojava is effectively prevented by the circumstances of the war, by the terror of the IS, but also by the Assad regime. Especially bitter is that Rojava faces also a de facto embargo in the <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">E<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">ast by the autonomous Kurdish region in Iraq (Kurdish Regional Government \/ KRG) ruled by Barzani. While a one-time border crossing for journalists and activists through Semalka was possible until March 2016, this has since than only been an option in rare exceptional cases. <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Nowadays c<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">itizens from Rojava and refugees <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">can<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> cross the border legally, but their <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">passage<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> is often characterized by chicanery and arbitrariness <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">through <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">security forces.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"en-US\">The structural isolation of Rojava is increasing. Facing the harsh policy<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> of <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">strongly <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">limit<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">ed<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> border crossings, other ways <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">had been<\/span> <span lang=\"en-US\">created.<\/span> <span lang=\"en-US\">B<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">ut <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">since several weeks <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">these too have been increasingly threatened and <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">made <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">impassable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\"><span lang=\"en-US\">Currently there is no assurance when our group can cross the border. <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">It is assumed that the tightening of the border policy is linked to the current tense situation in <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">N<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">orthern Iraq, due to the independence referendum <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">of the KRG. <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">We will continue to monitor the further development of the border situation <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">closely. In the given situation we decided to postpone the start of the construction phase until the end of the rainy season in Rojava. So hopefully we are getting <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">started<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> in spring next year. <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">Until then, we <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">try to look at the fo<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">rced <\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">break<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\"> as an opportunity to prepare our project here even better<\/span><span lang=\"en-US\">.<\/span><\/p>\n<p align=\"justify\">Bij\u00ee Berxwedana Rojava!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/isku.blackblogs.org\/4691\/pdk-verhindert-pyd-delegierten-einreise-nach-rojava\/\">https:\/\/isku.blackblogs.org\/4691\/pdk-verhindert-pyd-delegierten-einreise-nach-rojava\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the past few weeks we have been intensively preparing for our departure to the Democratic Federation of Northern Syria \/ Rojava. Flights were booked, errands done, last agreements made. We said our farewells to family and friends and reorganized &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/avahi.noblogs.org\/en-US\/post\/2017\/10\/05\/aktuelles\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10608,"featured_media":577,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_locale":"en_US","_original_post":"575","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-581","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","en-US"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/avahi.noblogs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/avahi.noblogs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/avahi.noblogs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avahi.noblogs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10608"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avahi.noblogs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=581"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/avahi.noblogs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":582,"href":"https:\/\/avahi.noblogs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/581\/revisions\/582"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avahi.noblogs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/577"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/avahi.noblogs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avahi.noblogs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/avahi.noblogs.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}