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On September 28, France 24 TV aired a report about German Kurds returning to Iraq in order to join the Peshmerga forces fighting ISIS. According to the report, hundreds of European Kurds have already joined the fighting.
Reporter: “When the sun goes down, the Peshmerga patrols return to base. Hussein and Lukman resemble the other fighters, but their story is different. They are Germans, who came here three months ago to fight the Islamic State.
“50-year-old Lukman lived for 19 years in Germany, where he worked as a truck driver. His wife and five children stayed behind in Munich.”
Lukman: “We heard that the terrorist organization known as the Islamic State was attacking our brothers. That’s why I decided to return and fight them. Many have returned (to fight), not only from my city, but from Cologne as well. Two of our men were killed in the town of Jalawla.”
Reporter: “Hussein Muhammad is from Cologne. Leaving behind his Kurdish orchestra, he exchanged his violin for a rifle. These two men both have battle experience. At the beginning of the 1990s, they fought in the Peshmerga against the Iraqi forces commanded by Saddam Hussein.
Lukman shows us gruesome pictures – which we can not show here – of corpses of ISIS fighters, which he took himself. He also shows us the explosives that awaited him and his comrades in a village.”
Lukman: “Look at the mines and explosives that they left in a village we attacked. The engineers managed to defuse them.”
Reporter: “Hundreds of European Kurds have returned to fight here. Another group awaits its turn.”
Hussein Muhammad: “Thank God for the modern media in Germany, which enabled us to follow events here in real-time. We get calls every day from young men still in Germany asking how to get here to join us in battle. They are ready and willing to defend Kurdistan.”
Reporter: “When night falls, it is time to relax. Another day has gone by for Lukman and Hussein, who say that they will not return to Germany until the war is over.
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