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British woman Anna Campbell killed fighting Isis with all-female Kurdish group YPJ in Syria
U.K. Metro ^ | 3/19/2018 | Richard Hartley-ParkinsonRead more: http://metro.co.uk/2018/03/19/british-woman-anna-campbell-killed

Posted on 03/19/2018 5:40:38 AM PDT by simpson96

British woman Anna Campbell is believed to have died while fighting against Isis in Syria. It is claimed that the 26-year-old from Lewes, East Sussex, was part of the all female Kurdish Women’s Protection Unit in Afrin, a besieged city.

According to the Guardian the convoy she was travelling in was hit by a Turkish missile on Friday. She is said to have dyed her hair black so that she looks less like a westerner and begged her commanders to send her to the front line. Her father Dirk Campbell told the paper: ‘Anna was very idealistic, very serious, very wholehearted and wanted to create a better world.

‘She wasn’t fighting when she died, she was engaged in a defensive action against the Turkish Incursion.’

He added that he didn’t try to stop his daughter from going off to fight because once she had made her mind up ‘she was unstoppable’.

Nesrin Abdullah, YPJ commander and spokesman, said: ‘[Anna’s] martyrdom is a great loss to us because with her international soul, her revolutionary spirit, which demonstrated the power of women, she expressed her will in all her actions.

‘On behalf of the Women’s Defence Units YPJ, we express our deepest condolences to [her] family and we promise to follow the path she took up. We will represent her in the entirety of our struggles.’

(Excerpt) Read more at metro.co.uk ...


TOPICS: Chit/Chat
KEYWORDS: kurds; pkk; turkey; ypj

1 posted on 03/19/2018 5:40:38 AM PDT by simpson96
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To: simpson96

Is that a Joseph Stalin button she is wearing in the first picture?


2 posted on 03/19/2018 5:53:06 AM PDT by Cowboy Bob ("Other People's Money" = The life blood of Liberalism)
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To: simpson96

Tragic loss. I would note article states Turkish Flag now flying over Afrin. Looting has begun...


3 posted on 03/19/2018 5:53:25 AM PDT by donozark (Restraining orders are just another way of saying I love you.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

Could be, the YPJ are closely linked to the communist PKK terrorist group that plagued Turkey for years.


4 posted on 03/19/2018 5:56:46 AM PDT by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge)
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To: simpson96

She was neutralized in Turkey’s anti-terror operation.


5 posted on 03/19/2018 5:57:54 AM PDT by granada
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To: Cowboy Bob

I believe it to be a photo of Abdullah Ocalan. Kurdish hero and currently incarcerated in a Turkish prison. For the last 20 years.


6 posted on 03/19/2018 6:03:36 AM PDT by donozark (Restraining orders are just another way of saying I love you.)
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To: Cowboy Bob

No (hair and moustache aren’t like Stalin’s). I think it’s a leader of one of the Kurd factions.


7 posted on 03/19/2018 6:04:09 AM PDT by Chewbarkah
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To: donozark

Ocalan as a young man, I should have said. Now nearly 70.


8 posted on 03/19/2018 6:04:22 AM PDT by donozark (Restraining orders are just another way of saying I love you.)
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To: piasa

I think that is a button of Abdullah Öcalan


9 posted on 03/19/2018 6:06:42 AM PDT by granada
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To: Cowboy Bob

It’s Abdullah Öcalan button.

A kurdish terrorist.


10 posted on 03/19/2018 6:08:54 AM PDT by granada
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To: simpson96

She looks better suited to be playing women’s field hockey or lacrosse.


11 posted on 03/19/2018 6:28:14 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: Cowboy Bob

I think it’s Freddy Mercury...................


12 posted on 03/19/2018 6:44:46 AM PDT by Red Badger (The people who call Trump a tyrant are the same people who want the president to confiscate weapons.)
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To: VietVet876

She looks better suited to be playing women’s field hockey or lacrosse.

Care to explain? Lacrosse is a pretty physical sport even for the Girls game, which isn’t designed to be like the Boys version.


13 posted on 03/19/2018 6:45:00 AM PDT by LRoggy (Peter's Son's Business)
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To: simpson96

RIP.


14 posted on 03/19/2018 6:48:04 AM PDT by fieldmarshaldj ("It's Slappin' Time !")
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To: granada

Ah, I see the pro-Turkey Islamist crowd has arrived.


15 posted on 03/19/2018 6:49:00 AM PDT by House Atreides (BOYCOTT the NFL, its products and players 100% - PERMANENTLY)
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To: LRoggy

She looks like a wholesome female jock in that photo.


16 posted on 03/19/2018 6:49:49 AM PDT by VietVet876
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To: House Atreides

She was wearing a Abdullah Ocalan button.

Abdullah Ocalan is a well known Kurdish PKK terrorist.


17 posted on 03/19/2018 7:06:31 AM PDT by granada
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To: simpson96

Life is hard.

Then you die.


18 posted on 03/19/2018 7:21:36 AM PDT by Attention Surplus Disorder (Apoplectic is where we want them.)
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To: simpson96

I notice that these later news releases are omitting her social activism in the UK was as a member of ANTIFA.


19 posted on 03/19/2018 7:31:57 AM PDT by sockmonkey
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