Rûken Renas,like Anna Campbell who died final week, is one of handful of UK women in the all-female YPJ units The final time Rûken Renas saw her friend Anna Campbell, and they were heading by coach into Afrin,northern Syria, to wait on defend the besieged Kurdish city from Turkish attack.“We had stopped for a break and I spotted her chewing sunflower seeds in the sun, and ” recalled Renas,a 26-year-old Londoner who asked to be called only by her Kurdish nom de guerre for dismay of legal reprisals when she returns to the UK. “When I asked what she was planning to do, she said, or ‘I’m going to fight.’”Continue reading...
Source: guardian.co.uk