Kurdish politician Ayşe Acar Başaran has been confirmed in her role as spokeswoman for the Women's Council of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP).

The re-election of the 36-year-old Batman MP took place in Ankara as part of the first meeting of the HDP Women's Council after the party congress two weeks ago.

At the meeting, the new council members first presented themselves and then made an analysis of the current political situation.

The core issue dealt with was isolation. The isolation regime initially imposed on Abdullah Öcalan on the prison island of Imrali has now been extended to all prison and society as a whole.

The women's council discussed possible ways of bringing the country out of isolation and proposed the formation of an internationalist women's alliance. Supporting the resistance carried out by the HDP women against isolation would mean not just getting and expressing solidarity for women's movements in other countries, but also understand the common denominators in the various women's struggles. The term "universal women's solidarity" was particularly underlined.

Another vote within the HDP Women's Council is due in the next few days. Then the activists have to decide on new co-speakers for the various commissions.