Numerous institutions and platforms issued written statements to mark 8 March, International Working Women's Day.

'We will never give up'

The Platform for Combating Forcibly Imprisoned Women: "While our platform demands justice for thousands of Yazidi women whose fate has not yet been disclosed, we meet 8 March International Working Women's Day by witnessing other tragedies on migration routes. Once again under heavy pressure we cannot freely celebrate with the heart of women. 
On the one hand, while violence against women continues at full speed, at home, on the street, at work, in the prison, on the other hand, the war policies pursued by the 'male states' persistently lead to mass murders of women, exposure to terrible attacks and inhumane practices.
But we women will never stop fighting, no matter what happens to us. A more just world passes through the women's heart and struggle union.

Women's freedom will end wars

Mesopotamian Freedom Party (MÖP): "We commemorate all the women who lost their lives with respect. We salute Rosa Luxemburg, Sürme Xanım ve Sakine Cansız.
Women's freedom means the society to chose humanity over wars, turning towards peace, building equality, democracy and freedom."

Our struggle is for the future

DKP / Union-Women Communes: "The male-dominant capitalist system reproduces the fascist power and state in the country through misogyny. Our war is also a struggle to conquer our future, not just against the attacks. We will target male domination and the male-dominated capitalist system not with abstract discourses; we will struggle to free our nights and days!"

Step up solidarity with the Rojava revolution

Communist Revolutionary Women (JKŞ): "We communist women in the women's revolution of Rojava are fighting against the male-dominated capitalist system and all the invasion attacks of the occupation fascist Turkish state, which aims to break the will of women.
We call on all women to step up international solidarity with the Rojava revolution, the women's revolution of the 21st century."

If we stop, life will stop

Marxist Leninist Communist Party (MLKP) Communist Women's Organization (CHO): "We are on the front of the barricade in Sudan, Iran and Algeria. We are the heart and bravery of the Rojava revolution.
We will not adhere to the male-dominated order, male-dominated attacks, we will not bow to pressures and the male-dominated fascist chief regime.
We do not participate in the production at home, in the factory, in the workshop, at the office, we slow down the work, stop the production for a whole day or for a few hours. We stop housework and declare strikes with banners we hang from balconies and windows. We do not go to schools, male-dominated educational institutions, we boycott. We do not go shopping, we boycott the consumption. Life stops if we stop."

Men should fight alongside women

Civaka İslamiya Kurdistan (CÎK): "Allah created everything in the universe in pairs and did not make any gender superior to the other.
We must struggle to reveal women's rights in Islam. Men should also fight with them shoulder to shoulder in order to eliminate injustice and persecution of women. We hope to live in a world where our women are not despised, defeated, killed, victimized and murdered."

End lies and fraud and support women

Maraş Democratic Associations Federation (MARDEF): "As long as women's righteous struggle against all kinds of violence and attacks is not supported and all demands are not accepted unconditionally, talking about women's rights is just fraud and a false lie."