WOMEN

Latest News

• Kongreya Star visits women’s defense forces to celebrate March 8 

  Kongreya Star visited the YPJ and Domestic Security Forces (Asayish) headquarters in Derik and Serekaniye to celebrate March 8 World Women’s Day with female fighters.
• Yazidi women take over the hunger strike in front of the CPT 

  The PYD members who carried out the first 5-day hunger strike passed it on to members of the Yazidi Women's Council part of the Yazidi Free Women's Movement (TAJE).
• Turkish ISIS jihadist: Everything was so expensive in Turkey 

  Fatma Yildiz joined the ISIS because she wanted to live according to the Koran and life in Turkey was too expensive. She has been married four times in Syria and her four children are dead.
• Leyla Güven commended at 8 March event in Ticino 

  The event also called for participation in the 8 March initiatives organised by Swiss women's organizations.
• 85-year-old Sîsê Bingöl finally released from prison 

  85-year-old Sîsê Bingöl was finally released from prison.
• Plaza de Mayo Mother visited HDP MP on hunger strike in Amed 

  "The public opinion needs to react. Whatever will be done, needs to be done urgently. I am calling on the government and the UN to act with responsibility to prevent any tragedy."
• Jineology in Colombia: weaving threads of common struggle 

  Jineology has been traveling around Colombia, weaving threads of common struggle.
• YPJ International: Capitalist patriarchy common enemy 

  "We do all come here because of strong humanitarian values and the awareness of the importance of the women’s liberation struggle. And we are all willing to take all steps necessary for this."
• Women visited Güven 

  Leyla Güven has reached day 116 of her hunger strike to demand the end of isolation against Abdullah Öcalan.
• Plaza de Mayo mother from Argentina visits Guven in Amed 

  Plaza de Mayo mother Nora Cortiñas visited Leyla Guven, who has been on a hunger strike to protest the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Ocalan for 115 days.
• Women for Leyla met in Istanbul 

  HDP Hakkari MP Leyla Güven has been on hunger strike for 114 days demanding the end of the isolation against Abdullah Öcalan.
• Women set up solidarity tent in Braunschweig 

  Protests against the isolation of Öcalan continue all around Europe.
• Women from Istanbul visited Leyla Güven on 113rd day of her fast 

  Feminist women from Istanbul came to Amed to visit Leyla Güven on hunger strike for 113 days.
• TJK-E call to join the march in Brussels on Wednesday  

  "We, Kurds, women and all democratic and freedom forces can be the answer if we raise our actions to write this historic resistance. This is the basis for the march to be held in Brussels. We urge everyone to join it."
• March 8 banners in the streets of Tabqa 

  As March 8 International Women's Day approaches, women in Tabqa hung banners in the city streets.
• Women in Raqqa organised 8 March activities 

  "We will follow Leyla Güven's resistance as a model and we will follow their path until we reach success.”
• Woman political prisoner on hunger strike beaten 

  Zozan Kutum has been on hunger strike since 20 December and is now weighing 40 kilos.
• North and East Syrian Women's Coordination for Leyla Güven 

  The women's organizations urged all women in the world, libertarian peoples, the UN and human rights organizations to act in response to the demands of the hunger strikers.
• Women paid solidarity visit to Leyla Güven 

  Stressing that Turkey is violating all laws, Leyla Güven pointed out that the demand of hunger strikers is actually that Turkey complies with its own laws.
• Kongra Star writes letter to Leyla Guven 

  “Together we are free women, together we are freedom-lovers, together we have a free live, and together we struggle for freedom.”
• Women journalists visited Leyla Güven 

  A group of women journalists visited Leyla Güven on day 108 of her hunger strike against isolation. The journalists reacted to the media general silence, saying that “remaining silent about this resistance is remaining silent to humanity.”
• Peace Mothers paid solidarity visit to Leyla Güven 

  “The whole world should know this: we mothers will not be silent."
• Tabqa women prepare 8 March program 

  8 March this year is dedicated to women defending themselves against all kinds of difficulties, especially women in Afrin.
• Seminars on Jineology in Colombia 

  The confederalism project was explained to Colombian women as well as how this model is implemented when it comes to Kurdish women's movement.
• Women artists visited Leyla Güven 

  Among today’s visitors were also women filmmakers and actresses who were received by Leyla Güven at her home in Bağcılar district of Bağlar, in Amed.