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• Iranian and Rojhilat women: “We won’t go back home” 

  Iranian and Rojhilati female writers, intellectuals, actors and women’s rights activists called for participation in popular protests and said, “After the victory we will not go back home, we will be present in all areas of life.”
• Rojhilat’s RJAK: The uprising led by women will achieve its goals 

  Eastern Kurdistan Free Women’s Organization (KJAR) said, “We have entered a new year with the serhildans led by women in Iran and Rojhilatê Kurdistan. The uprising led by women will achieve its goals.”
• Turkey: 409 women killed, 387 children abused in 2017 

  At least 409 women were killed, and 387 children were abused in Turkey in 2017, We Will Stop Femicide Platform said.
• KJAR calls upon women to join protests in Iran 

  Eastern Kurdistan Women Movement (KJAR) called upon all women to join protests in Iran.
• YJA Star guerrillas: 2018 will be the year of revenge and victory 

  YJA Star guerrillas fighting on the front line: 2018 will be the year of revenge and victory.
• Another mass grave of 80 Êzidî women discovered 

  Another mass grave has been discovered with bodies of 80 Êzidî women massacred in the 73rd genocide by the ISIS gangs in Shengal.
• 52 woman journalists detained in 2017 in Turkey 

  According to a report by Mesopotamia Women Journalists Platform, 52 woman journalists were detained and nine of them were sent to prison in Turkey in 2017.
• Young female guerrillas complete training term 

  32 young female fighters have graduated after completing the Martyr Tekoşin Baran training term in the guerrilla zones.
• Women prisoners on hunger strike for 58 days 

  Women prisoners in Elazig T-Type Prison are in hunger strike for 58 days to protest their conditions of detention.
• Russian woman rescued from ISIS by YPG 

  YPG fighters rescued a Russian woman who has been living in ISIS captivity with her children since she came to Syria in 2014.
• People of Jarablus clash with gangs harassing women 

  Reports say clashes broke out between the locals and the gangs in Jarablus centre when gang members from Ahrar Al Sharqiya and Al Jihishat under the Euphrates Shield harassed a woman. 
• United Kurdish Women’s Platform founded in Amed 

  Following a meeting in the mainly Kurdish city Amed (Diyarbakır), Kurdish women have founded United Kurdish Women’s Platform.
• Special buses for women now in Maraş 

  After the introduction of pink special buses for women in Turkey has been heavily criticized, light blue buses have now been put in service in Maraş province.
• Star Fm: A new women's radio station starts broadcast in Rojava 

  A new women’s radio station, Star FM, began its broadcast in Tirbespiyê in Northern Syria.
• The resistance of the YPJ is just beginning 

  The resistance of the YPJ fighters will not end with the annihilation of the ISIS. Every YPJ fighter underlines that the fight against male fascism will go on mercilessly. As fighter Azadî Avesta puts it, "Until all the women in the world are free..."
• Female Kurdish activist sentenced to 50 lashes 

  Kurdish activist Zemane Zêwe from Rojhilat (Eastern Kurdistan) has been sentenced to 50 lashes for attending an event in solidarity with 25 September’s independence referendum in Southern Kurdistan.
• Demonstration for two murdered women in Aachen 

  Women have taken to the streets for the two women murdered by men in Aachen.
• Kurdish Women’s Conference in Moscow 

  Preparations have been completed for the Kurdish Women’s Conference to be held in Moscow, capital of the Russian Federation.
• YJŞ fighter: I chose the path of freedom and truth 

  Dilsoz Welat, who returned to her homeland Shengal after its liberation from ISIS, says the following regarding her participation in YJŞ ranks: “I chose the path of freedom and truth. We need to take revenge and build free Shengal.”
• First female conscientious objector in Turkey imprisoned 

  Zeynep Duygu Ağbayır, the first female conscientious objector in Turkey, has been jailed.
• Smiling faces in the front lines 

  Hasret and Amara… Kalashnikovs at hand, faith in their hearts, they inspire fear in the enemy in the villages and deserts of Deir ez-Zor.
• YPJ fighter follows the footsteps of martyred brother 

  Hasret is of the Kobanê Arabs, so she has witnessed the pain in Kobanê. She joined the YPJ in 2016 and now operates a DShK. The DShK is a heavy weapon, a task many male fighters fail to undertake.
• Unemployment and violence against women on the rise in Iran 

  Recent date reveals that at least 29 percent of youth are unemployed in Iran.
• Syriac woman from Mosul freed by SDF near Deir ez-Zor 

  SDF fighters freed a Syriac woman from the hands of ISIS gangs.
• YJA-STAR's 40th year message: We repeat our promise for victory 

  YJA-STAR has said, “PKK is the struggle to right the history that has been overturned to act against women and peoples and in favor of the hegemons.”