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• Women launch activities for 8 March in North-East Syria 

  With press conferences in Qamishlo and Raqqa, women's organisations have launched their joint programme for International Women's Day on 8 March. The motto is: "Defending our revolution together!"
• HDP Women's Assembly releases video for 8 March, International Women's Day 

  The HDP Women's Assembly released a video for 8 March, International Women's Day.
• Kongra Star promotes webinar on women's revolution as a guarantee of democratic and free society 

  Kongra Star will hold a webinar titled "Women’s revolution is a guarantee of democratic and free society" tomorrow, 21 February.
• Several detained in police attack on women’s meeting for 8 March in Ankara 

  In Ankara, a meeting of the Women's Platform for a public call for 8 March was violently dispersed by police. At least nine activists were taken into custody, and a journalist was assaulted.
• Women in solidarity with HDP MP Semra Güzel 

  It is expected that Semra Güzel will be deprived of her parliamentary mandate next week. The HDP Women's Council and the Free Women's Movement (TJA) call for solidarity with the Kurdish politician.
• Lawyer Çiğdem Sevimli said Kurdish women attacked both for being women and for being Kurds 

  Amed Bar Association Women's Rights Center representative, lawyer Çiğdem Sevimli, said Kurdish women are attacked both for being women and for being Kurds.
• Leila Khaled sends a message of solidarity to Aysel Tuğluk 

  Khaled called on the Turkish government to act in accordance with the law, justice and human rights in her message.
• SDF frees young Yazidi woman before ISIS mercenaries managed to take her to Turkey 

  A young woman named Roza Emin Bereket, who was rescued from ISIS, said: "They decided that we should be taken to Turkey. But SDF forces saved us on the way."
• Broad unemployment rate for young women in Turkey: 51.3 percent 

  Unemployment among young women is higher than men, shows the report of the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey: Broad youth unemployment stands at 51.3 percent for women and 35.4 percent for men.
• TAJÊ Spokeswoman: Yazidi community owes Öcalan 

  The spokeswoman of the Yazidi Women's Freedom Movement said that the Yazidi community owes Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, insisting that, “We must embrace Öcalan's philosophy and ensure his physical freedom.”
• "Lost daughter of Dersim" passes away 

  The genocide survivor Fatma İçin, who was abducted from her home in Dersim in 1937/1938 as a ten-year-old and forcibly assimilated as the "adopted daughter" of a Turkish officer, has died in Adıyaman at the age of 95.
• Shengal women: We will embrace Öcalan's ideas and our achievements to the end 

  Shengal women remarked that the ideas of the Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan have spread among all peoples, saying, “We will embrace Öcalan's ideas and our achievements to the end.”
• Kiraz: We must broaden the women's alliance 

  Leman Kiraz from HDP Women's Assembly said, "We must broaden the women's struggle and alliance in order to overthrow the anti-justice, monist system."
• Women's village of Jinwar continues to build a new way of life 

  In the women's village of Jinwar in Northern and Eastern Syria, life goes on despite the war, embargo and the coronavirus. The residents wrote in a newsletter about their current situation.
• HDP Women's Assembly and TJA in Van meet to prepare 8 March program 

  The HDP Women's Assembly and TJA in Van met to prepare for the 8 March program of events to be organised in the city.
• Men kill 23 women and 3 children in January 

  In January 2022, men inflicted violence on at least 57 women, killed at least three children, abused at least 27 girls and boys, harassed at least eight women and forced at least 24 women to sex work in Turkey.
• HPJ guerrilla: The youth and women of Rojhilat should stand up for Öcalan 

  HPJ guerrilla Viyan Rojhilat stated that the powers of the capitalist system are conspiring against the Kurdish people and human values and that the Kurdish People's Leader should be protected.
• Günay calls for extended solidarity with imprisoned women 

  HDP spokesperson Ebru Günay warns of more deaths due to conditions in Turkish prisons and sees the isolation system on Imrali as the "root of oppression". She calls for the expansion of solidarity with imprisoned women.
• Leyla Güven receives 11-day solitary confinement punishment in prison 

  The disciplinary board of the prison where Kurdish politician Leyla Güven is held overlooked the threats against her by the prison guards and sentenced Güven to 11 days in solitary confinement for “insulting or threatening a public official”.
• Rate of female genital mutilation is 11 percent in Hewler and 4.9 percent in Raperîn 

  According to a recent survey, girls and women are still circumcised in the Kurdistan Region. The rate of female genital mutilation is 11 percent in Hewler and 4.9 percent in Raperîn.
• Men kill at least 32 women in January 

  According to the women's news agency Jinnews. at least 32 women were killed in the month of January and 31 died under suspicious circumstances.
• Yazidi and Arab women to fight together against femicide 

  The workshop of Yazidi and Arab women in Shengal was a novelty. The joint struggle against femicide and patriarchal rule is to be continued, and a follow-up event is planned in Baghdad.
• 26 women in Yüksekova apply to IHD denouncing social media harassment 

  26 women in Yüksekova applied to the IHD because their photos were shared on virtual media without permission and they were harassed.
• “From Abya Yala to Kurdistan, long live the women's revolution" 

  Feminists from Abya Yala said, "The women's revolution from Abya Yala to Kurdistan will not be brought to an end by bombs," and called on them to "stand up to embrace a revolution that all feminists throughout the world hold dear."
• TJK-E calls for action against Turkish attacks in Kurdistan 

  The Kurdish Women's Movement in Europe called on the people of Kurdistan, particularly women, their friends and the public to stand up against fascism and expand the common struggle against the attacks of the Turkish state.