Posted on 03/19/2018 9:20:19 PM PDT by BBell
A British woman fighting with a Kurdish armed unit has died in Syria, her father has said.
Anna Campbell, 26, from Lewes, East Sussex, died on March 15 in Afrin while with the Kurdish Women's Protection Units, the YPJ.
It is feared she was killed by Turkish airstrikes.
Ms Campbell - who had dyed her fair hair black so she would not stand out - is the first British woman to have been killed in Syria with the Kurds and the first Briton to be killed in the battle for Afrin.
Seven other Britons have died in the country while fighting alongside the groups.
Ms Campbell's father, Dirk, told the BBC she "wanted to create a better world and she would do everything in her power to do that".
He added: "I told her of course that she was putting her life in danger, which she knew full well she was doing. I feel I should have done more to persuade her to come back, but she was completely adamant."
The YPJ is an all-female brigade of the Kurdish People's Protection Units YPG, which has around 50,000 Kurdish men and women fighting against Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (Isil) in northern Syria.
The group has been defending the Kurdish-majority city of Afrin from Turkish forces backed by Syrian rebels after they launched an offensive in mid-January.
Ankara considers the YPG a terrorist group, an offshoot of the outlawed Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) which has led an insurgency in Turkey for decades.
Ms Campbell had been qualified plumber living in Bristol before she left to join the Kurdish militia in Syria.
Her friends and commanders are thought to have tried to dissuade her from going, saying it was too dangerous.
He said his daughter was an "incredibly principled, brave, determined, committed
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Attaturk’s Turkey was.
We largely lost Turkey when Clinton ignored them and a government with a lot of crazies was elected when the government could no longer show the benefits of being a US ally. The transition was mostly finished under Obama. With the referendum a couple of years back, Turkey is done.
Meanwhile, all the men from the region ran to Europe to rape young English, Swedish and German girls and live off of the state.
She was a member of Antifa.
The latest Tweets from North London Antifa (@ NorthLondonAF). ... Our British comrade Hêlîn Qereçox (Anna Campbell) has become the symbol of all women after resising against fascism in #Afrin to ..
A daughter has to go into combat in islam when British men are too cowardly to defend them at home against Islam... something you might be familiar with but choose to ignore apparently.
“” “” Attaturk’s Turkey was.
We largely lost Turkey when Clinton ignored them and a government with a lot of crazies was elected when the government could no longer show the benefits of being a US ally. The transition was mostly finished under Obama. With the referendum a couple of years back, Turkey is done.”” “”
You said it. I am yet to hear it from US government or/and NATO.
The British woman was an Antifa activist.
The latest Tweets from New York City Antifa (@ NYCAntifa). ... #AfrinNotAlone #Anarchist comrade #AnnaCampbell fallen in #Afrin defending the # Rojava revolution from the attack by the Turkish army: ...
Why hasn’t Turkey been kicked out of NATO? It isn’t a democracy and is run by a wanta be tinhorn dictator who is against the only somewhat good guys in the fight - the Kurds.
A sovereign nation that was attacked by isis!! And insurrection!! A nation that still stands and will stand tomorrow as they anniahlate the insurrection and with Russian air power and iranian malitia they destroyed isis on their soil.That is the Syria i was speaking about. Got it?
Isis was created by Assad from the Iraqi Baath members fleeing Iraq and using as foot soldiers the islamics he purposefully released from prison when the Alawite students protested Assad’s imperial wars as puppet of Iran.
“She was a member of Antifa.”
Good riddance?
” A daughter has to go into combat when British men are too cowardly to defend them at home against Islam...”
... well, duh !
but they’ll lose, won’t they?
What’s your point?
“” “” Isis was created by Assad””” “
Yep, also Germans were tossing babies out incubators and Saddam was picking them on bayonets. Was it before or after Germans bombed Pearl Harbor with all that chemical weapons Saddam smuggled to Syria?
No the question is what is your point?
Letting a girl do a job men do not want to do? Then same men bashing her for doing it?
Are you islamic? Because cowardly islamics do not oppose the kalifate and forbid women from fighting back, pretty much cuffing them up to be raped human shields.
What cannon fodder are we talking about? The only reason the like of antifa gain credibility is because of foolishness like this.
Someone’s gotta say the obvious.
Well, you are the one making a link between Imperial Japan, Hitler, Saddam Baath members and Assad fascism as victims... friends of yours?
North London antifa:
Our British comrade Hêlîn Qereçox (Anna Campbell) has become the symbol of all women after resising against fascism in #Afrin to create a free world. We promise to fulfill Şehîd Hêlîn’s struggle and honour her memory in our fight for freedom.
Rose City Antifa:
Antifa Rojava;Rest in Power
“” “” Well, you are the one making a link between Imperial Japan, Hitler, Saddam Baath members and Assad fascism as victims... friends of yours?”” “”
Nope, I am actually trying to bring you back to some senses.
It seems like I am old enough to remember the times when warmongering propaganda was somehow sophisticated and made sense.
In the age of idiocracy it doesn’t but as evident from our discussion it still works.
Antifa? Then I take it back. Maybe it’s better she didn’t breed.
I just learned that.
What is warmingering in urging Assad to make peace as the Alawites demand?
To tell Iran to get out?
You are the warmingering supporter of Assad and his canon fodder policies against the people of the region.
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