A protest demo was staged in front of the Swedish parliament in Stockholm yesterday in protest of the inhumane treatment against YJA Star guerrilla Ekin Wan and exposure of her naked body after her death in a clash in Varto district of Muş earlier this month.

Kevser Eltürk, nom de guerre Ekin Wan, was martyred in Gimgim (Varto) on 10th August as a result of a firefight with the occupying Turkish forces, who later stripped her off clothes and dragged her naked body on the ground in the town centre.

While a Kurdish woman laid down naked on the ground in front of the parliament, representatives of various democratic organisations and artists held speeches protesting the rapist mentality and calling on the European Union and Swedish government to take action against the AKP government and Turkish state's war policy and barbarity.

During the demo which was organized on the call of Amara Kurdish Women’s Assembly and was mainly participated by women, Ayşe Göktepe read out the press statement which was also distributed to the Swedish press.

The statement put emphasis on the leading success of women in Rojava Revolution, and the very important role women played in the electoral victory of the HDP in 7 June elections held in North Kurdistan and Turkey.

The statement stressed that the AKP government couldn't accept these achievements of Kurds and did therefore start a war against the Kurdish people for revenge, while it also increased its fierce attacks on women in order to sustain the existence of its order based on male dominance.

The statement of women likened the inhumane treatment of Ekin Wan's body to the barbaric torture and crimes against humanity committed by Turkish state forces during the 1990’s in North Kurdistan, and underlined that the intimidation policy of the AKP government will not be able to deter the Kurdish women from their struggle.

“We will enhance the resistance further against all kinds of tyranny, barbarity and fascism” underlined the statement of the Amara Women’s Assembly, and called on the international community and human rights activists to raise solidarity with the Kurdish people against the savagery of the AKP.

Speaking after, Jewish artist Dror Feiler and head of Swedish Peace Council, Kemal Görgü, condemned the attacks of the AKP on Kurdish people and put emphasis on the importance of international solidarity with the Kurdish people.

Feiler stressed that the silence of the Swedish government on the savagery of the Turkish state was unacceptable, and vowed, as a human rights activist, to continue protesting the war policy of the Turkish state.

In the meantime, two fascist persons who chanted racist slogans in an attempt to sabotage the demo were drawn away from the scene by police.

Protest in Cologne

In another protest action held in Cologne, Germany, Cologne Women’s Assembly members condemned the torture perpetrated on the body of YJA STAR guerrilla Ekin Wan.

Holding a sit-in action at the historical square in Cologne, women opened banners which read “No to AKP-ISIS fascism”, “Stop ISIS” “Turkish Islamic State massacres Kurds”, chanting slogans “Erdoğan, the murderer” and protesting the gendered mentality of the AKP, and attacks of its forces on women.

In a press statement in German, demonstrators stressed that the barbaric act of torture perpetrated on the body of Ekin Wan was an insult against all women, and strongly condemned the AKP government and its massacre policy against the Kurdish people.