Kurdistan Communities of Women (Komalen Jinen Kurdistan, KJK) has issued a statement strongly condemning the Armenian, Syriac-Assyrian-Chaldean genocide at its 100th anniversary. KJK called on all the communities of the Middle East to face this painful history and its striking results, to stand against the threats and polices of genocide and to step up the struggle for peace and democracy determinedly.

KJK stressed in its statement that the nation-state nationalism imposed for over 100 years aims to incite the communities of the Middle East against each other and to perpetuate the war environment, as the system of capitalist modernity has always done for its own interests. KJK said nationalism, fundamentalism, sectarianism and sexism form the ideological basis of genocide policies, adding that the peoples of the region have been left breathless under these policies for over 100 years.

KJK said the communities are like the living organisms with relations based on democracy and multi-culturalism, and stressed that the Middle East has always been the most prosperous living place of the world throughout the history as it has sheltered variety of peoples, communities, cultures and faiths, all living in fraternity.

Kurdistan Communities of Women said the capitalist modernity that has imposed itself on the Middle East through the genocide policies has targeted the peoples and faith groups, adding that the imperialist powers, primarily Britain, France, Germany and later on US have mainly structured themselves in the Middle East in the first 30-40 years of genocides of the 20th century.
KJK also stressed that the peoples of the Middle East are being put into conflict with each other also at the 100th anniversary of the Armenian and Syriac-Assyrian-Chaldean genocide, adding that the threat of genocide still holds on people after 100 years.

Strongly condemning the genocide, KJK said that the genocide created unavoidable pains and conflicts among the peoples of the region, and that a confrontation with the history is necessary to overcome these hostilities in order to build democratic, peaceful, friendly unity.

KJK continued by stressing that the peoples themselves have always found the way of living together in fraternity in the Middle East through democratic and confederal mechanisms, adding that today this system is exemplified in Rojava where Kurdish, Arab, Turkmen, Syriac communities do all live together. KJK said the Rojava model has improved the cultural and democratic advance of the Middle East with its alternative democratic structure. KJK added that the genocide policies will be defeated by strengthening the democratic unity between the Armenian peoples and primarily the Turkish and Kurdish peoples in line with the democratic advance of the Middle East.

KJK ended its statement by commemorating all the victims of the genocide and calling on all the communities of the Middle East to face this painful history and its striking results, to stand against the threats and polices of genocide and to raise the struggle for peace and democracy determinedly.