According to the Al Arabiya News, Ozalp used the last bullet to kill herself during gun fights with the ISIS because she couldn't bare the thought of being hostage. ISIS is well known for its abduction on women and girls and uses them as sex slaves or spouses for its member. In early October, the United Nations expressed the urgent situation in systematic violence and blamed air strikes carried out by the Iraq government on civilians as crime against humanity. Furthermore, United Nations compare ISIS with war crime.
Most people in Syrian Kurdish city have moved away, the people who stay are the people fighting and who try to defend their hometown. Nonetheless, many Syrian Kurdish women have joined the Syrian Kurish People's Protection Unites (YPG) to fightback the ISIS directly. During one interview with BBC a month before her suicide, Ozalp told "when they (ISIS) see a woman with a gun, they're so afraid they began to shake. They portray themselves as tough guys to the world. But when they see us with our guns they run …show more content…
How she wanting to do something greater, something that she felt connect with, led to her involvement with terrorist group? Yes, the main reason she joined is due to her cousin's relationship with the terrorist group; however, my point here is there is possibility to reduce terrorist effectiveness through discovering the relationship in social network, to be specific, through women.
Muslim society has tendency to categorize women as minority group. Women do not have equal rights and need to protect their identity through covering up entire body except eye (or sometimes face) and hands. Like Ozalp pointed out, if women decide to stand up for themselves and speak up, it might generates new hopes in this terror war. Even though YPG is an offshoot of the guerrilla group, the PKK, at least for now, it is not define as a terrorist
Most people in Syrian Kurdish city have moved away, the people who stay are the people fighting and who try to defend their hometown. Nonetheless, many Syrian Kurdish women have joined the Syrian Kurish People's Protection Unites (YPG) to fightback the ISIS directly. During one interview with BBC a month before her suicide, Ozalp told "when they (ISIS) see a woman with a gun, they're so afraid they began to shake. They portray themselves as tough guys to the world. But when they see us with our guns they run …show more content…
How she wanting to do something greater, something that she felt connect with, led to her involvement with terrorist group? Yes, the main reason she joined is due to her cousin's relationship with the terrorist group; however, my point here is there is possibility to reduce terrorist effectiveness through discovering the relationship in social network, to be specific, through women.
Muslim society has tendency to categorize women as minority group. Women do not have equal rights and need to protect their identity through covering up entire body except eye (or sometimes face) and hands. Like Ozalp pointed out, if women decide to stand up for themselves and speak up, it might generates new hopes in this terror war. Even though YPG is an offshoot of the guerrilla group, the PKK, at least for now, it is not define as a terrorist