The Kurdish Women's Unity Platform started its third conference under the slogan “Bi yekitiya jinên kurd, ber bi yekitiya neteweyî ye” (Kurdish women's unity is the unity of the nation). The two-day conference, held at the Diyarbakır Chamber of Commerce and Industry (DTSO) hall, is attended by many women from Kurdistan and Turkey wearing traditional national costumes. Banners reading “Jin, Jiyan, Azadî” (Woman, Life, Freedom) in the Kurmancî, Kırmanckî, and Soranî dialects of Kurdish were hung in the conference hall.
Speaking on behalf of the Kurdish Women's Unity Platform, Devrim Demir said that the Treaty of Lausanne divided Kurdistan into four parts and assimilation policies were carried out against the Kurds in all four parts. Highlighting the Kurdish people’s struggle against this campaign, Demir stated that they established this platform due to the need to strengthen this struggle and organization.
Drawing attention to Abdullah Öcalan’s February 27 ‘Call for Peace and Democratic Society’ Devrim Demir said that Kurdish women must take on their role in this historic process: "We women are the ones who will benefit from this way of life. Kurdish women have set an example for women around the world with their resistance and struggle. The resilient women around the world have come to know the philosophy of ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadî’ through Kurdish women and have taken their struggle as a reference point. Kurdish women have struggled to enhance this struggle and make it more widely known, and they will continue to do so in order to bring about national unity. Where women are not organized, there can be no strong struggle or organization. That is why the role of women is difficult, but equally glorious. We must secure the identity of free Kurdish women."
Demir’s speech was followed by a film screening on women's struggle.