Women gathered at Şêx Sêîd (Dağkapı) Square in Amed (Diyarbakır) under the leadership of Dicle Amed Women's Platform (DAKAP) and formed a peace chain with the slogan ‘No war, peace now’. Co-mayors of municipalities, DBP and DEM Party provincial co-chairs, representatives of organisations and many women participated in the demonstration.

Addressing the crowd, DBP (Democratic Regions Party) Provincial Co-chair Sultan Yaray stated that those who persecuted Kurds are leaving one by one and said, “ISIS was defeated, you will be defeated too. All Kurds stand with Rojava.”

Derman Üngür read a statement on behalf of DAKAP. Üngür stated that a new process is taking place in the Third World War centred in the Middle East and said: “As the 50-year-old Assad regime collapsed on 8 December, it has been seen once again that single nation governments promise nothing but war and destruction to the peoples. The Druze, Arab, Kurdish, Armenian, Nusayri, Turkmen, Assyrian and Yazidi peoples living in Syria have been condemned to live in unequal and unfree conditions under the rule of a monist understanding for years. While the struggle of women and peoples for a democratic, free and equal life is growing day by day, the Assad regime, far from realising internal peace and with no tendency to democratic change and transformation, has accelerated its collapse. The crises created by nation-states in the Middle East have been seen once again in the Israeli-Palestinian war, the war in Syria and the Kurdish question in Turkey. It is of course no coincidence that during the attack on Manbij, the Syrian National Army, consisting of jihadist gangs supported by Turkey, killed 3 women from the Zenubiya Women's Community. Undoubtedly, these wars are carried out intertwined with the policies of femicide and in the face of this, the only solution in the Middle East is the construction of life under the leadership of women and on the basis of a democratic nation.”

Derman Üngür noted that the Zenubiya Women's Community carries out activities in Manbij, Tabqa, Deir ez-Zor and Raqqa to resolve important social problems such as violence, child marriage, polygamy, murder, divorce, alimony, inheritance and custody of women from Arab, Kurdish, Circassian, Turkmen and all other components. She continued: “In Manbij, women who fought against child marriage, polygamy, violence against women, femicide, and the usurpation of women's right to alimony and inheritance were massacred. It was Kurdish women who waged the greatest struggle against the genocidal policies pursued by ISIS and its enablers in Rojava years ago. The honourable struggle against the jihadist understanding that tries to slaughter women with rape culture and sells them in slave markets and its voice was ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadî’ (Woman, Life, Freedom). It is a democratic, ecological, women's libertarian form of government built in Rojava. The Rojava revolution, in which Kurds, Armenians, Arabs and Assyrians meet in a pluralistic way in their mother tongues and cultures in a common life, is the life that the Syrian peoples are longing for today.”

Üngür stated that the atrocities applied to the civilian population, especially women, by the structures that are trying to become a power in Syria, especially the Turkish-backed paramilitary force SNA and the al-Qaeda branch HTS, recall the ISIS persecution: “After Assad's misogynist policies, those who want to be actors in the reconstruction of Syria today kidnap women and massacre them. We will not accept that what the Taliban did in Afghanistan and the Mullah regime did in Iran is now intended to be realised in Syria. We will not accept that women are ignored in life, imprisoned in houses and made to live under jihadist rules. The abducted and tortured women are our justification for struggle. Just as we resisted for Rojava yesterday, we will raise our voices for a democratic, free and equal Syria today.”

Remarking that the democratic nation perspective comes to life in North-East Syria, Üngür added: “It is not a coincidence that while Turkey's attacks on North-East Syria are increasing, the SNA paramilitary organisation is also attacking on the same basis. In the face of this monist understanding, which is the product of the same mentality, we women will enhance the resistance by crossing borders. The SNA and those who feed it will not be an obstacle to a free and democratic life. Peoples and women will build the life they long for. We will defend the principles of women's liberation struggle under all circumstances. The women and peoples living in Syria will decide how Syria will be governed. We salute the struggle of women from all Syrian peoples who organise and struggle against the Assad regime, jihadist gangs and the rulers who drag the Middle East into war for their own interests, and those who resist on the streets, on the barricades, in prisons and in their homes. We respectfully commemorate all women who lost their lives while carrying out self-defence. We call on all women to struggle and stand in solidarity for a democratic, free and equal Syria.”