KCK released a statement to mark International Women's Day which it described as the day of unity, solidarity and struggle against the five thousand-year-old male-dominant ruling, the dominant culture of gender, violence, rape and sexual abuse.
KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) Executive Council Co-Presidency has released a statement to mark International Women's Day which it described as the day of unity, solidarity and struggle against the five thousand-year-old male-dominant ruling, the dominant culture of gender, violence, rape and sexual abuse.
Saluting all the women that are enhancing the struggle with the spirits of an organised struggle and rebellion, KCK said; "We bow respectfully before the memory of all female comrades in the person of Arin Mirkan who have fallen a martyr putting up an unprecedented and epic resistance against colonialism and ISIS fascism in Kobanê and Sinjar.”
Stressing that the freedom of women was the basis of a democratic society, democratic nation and free humanity, KCK said that the five thousand-year-old male-dominant culture and the system of capitalist modernity has created a monstrous animosity against women.
“The freedom of humanity in the person of women cannot be talked about unless there takes a place a change in the nation-statist ruling and male-dominant mentality that leaves women without self-defense in both physical and moral aspect. If the humanity is meant to become free, the whole struggle for freedom and democracy must center on the freedom of women”, KCK said, stressing that in this regard, it is the whole humanity in the person of women that are being murdered, raped and sexually abused every day.
KCK Executive Council Co-Presidency emphasised that the women of Kurdistan have fulfilled their leading role with the resistance they mounted against colonialism and ISIS fascism, noting that the 40-year-old freedom struggle of women has revealed great values.
“The Kurdistan revolution which has entirely progressed as a women's revolution is achieving victory and a democratic communal life is being built under the leadership of women today. The resisting and free women have a determining role in the building of democratic nation and democratic communal life. With the resistance they mounted, the women of Kurdistan manifested and proved the fact that a free future without women is not possible.”
KCK remarked that the freedom ideology the Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan presented to the world women has found a meaning with the resistance and struggle of the women on a global level.
The Executive Council Co-Presidency of the KCK ended the statement by saluting the freedom of women and the world march of women in North Kurdistan.
