United Freedom Forces

The United Freedom Forces (Birleşik Özgürlük Güçleri, or BÖG) is a joint expatriate militia of several revolutionary socialist and anarchist organizations from Turkey, active in the Rojava conflict of the Syrian Civil War.

Inspired by the International Brigades of the Spanish Civil War, the militia was founded in December 2014 in Kobanê within the de facto autonomous region of Rojava in Syria.

The predominant Hoxhaist Marxist–Leninist Communist Party and the Maoist TİKKO did not join the United Freedom Forces, but together with other communist groups from Turkey, Spain and Greece, in June 2015, they altogether formed the International Freedom Battalion.

On 21 September 2015, Turkish BÖG commander Aziz Güler (nom de guerre: Rasih Kurtuluş) was killed by a landmine explosion whilst fighting against ISIL. His body was taken to a hospital in Serê Kaniyê (Ras al-Ayn) to be brought to back to Turkey. Turkish authorities refused to allow his body into the country sparking controversy. His family had appealed to the Suruç district governorate, which rejected their application due to an invisible order by the Council of Ministers, and the Constitutional Court of Turkey, which also rejected their requests, before turning to the European Court of Human Rights. Protests against the Turkish authorities were carried out and a Change.org petition gathered 23,738 signatures. After 59 days, Güler's body was able to enter Turkey and was buried in Instanbul on the 22nd of November 2015.

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