Biker gangs from the Netherlands and Germany have joined Kurdish soldiers in the fight against the Islamic State.
The Netherlands legalized the joining of some members of a biker gang, No Surrender, to fight alongside Kurdish soldiers in Kobani. Three members joined last week - two ex-marines and one soldier, according to RT - and three more members are on their way to Iraq, according to Breibart. As long as there is not an official war and they do not join the Kurdistan Workers' Party, known as the PKK, civilians can fight with Kurdish forces, Dutch officials said.
"Joining a foreign armed force was previously punishable, now it's no longer forbidden... You just can't join a fight against the Netherlands," said a spokesperson for the public prosecutor Wim de Bruin, according to Agence France-Presse.
Median Empire also announced that it will fight ISIS in Kobani. The motorcycle club is 70 percent Kurdish and the members that volunteered are of Kurdish descent, according to Vice News.
"It's our families. It's our brothers and sisters," said Sergeant at Arms "Fat Joe." "We're here in a better place so we try to give them a better situation, because we know the feelings, what they're feeling right now."
The gang's president, Azad "Onepercenter," emigrated when he was 9-years-old, according to Spanish newspaper ABC. "We know the feeling of being in a refugee camp," the son of Kurdish militants said. "We have felt it with our own flesh. We are now in Europe. Everyone is well, has a job, money, a warm place, and enough food. I see a lot of people who have forgotten where they come from."
To avoid middle-man corruption, Median Empire brought money and purchased supplies after first seeing what camp residents needed. "Our president was smart enough, he went and looked around first to see the issues," Fat Joe told Vice News.
The biker gang brought medical supplies and local doctors, according to Vice News. They gave money for education and sponsored two young girls who were orphaned after their parents were killed by jihadists. The gang members would not comment about any armed fighting against ISIS, but Azad told Vice News, "We're not really there to take lives. We're there to save lives."
