Thousands of women from across North Kurdistan and Turkey are flocking to the village of Mehser at Kobanê border for a massive regional rally to be held March 8 to mark International Women's Day.
Thousands of women from across North Kurdistan and Turkey are flocking to the village of Mehser at Kobanê border for a massive regional rally to be held March 8 to mark International Women's Day.
A message from Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan for 8 March will be read at the rally at the border between Suruç district of Urfa and Kobanê town of West Kurdistan, Rojava.
Öcalan's message is expected to make its mark on the rally which will also witness speeches by the Ceylan Bağrıyanık, Congress of Free Women (KJA, previously DÖKH) member of the İmralı delegation, DTK (Democratic Society Congress) Co-President Selma Irmak, HDP (Peoples' Democratic Party) Kars deputy Milkiye Birtane and Kobanê Women's Assembly Spokesperson Fevziye Ebdi.
The area of the rally has already been covered with photographs of Viyan Soran, Arin Mirkan, Kader Ortakkaya, Sakine Cansız and Abdullah Öcalan, and signs reading: “People with unfree women cannot be free”, "No people is free unless its women are free", "Let's get organised and liberate our lives with the women resisting in Kobanê" and "Freedom from Kobanê to İmralı."
