TJA and HDP Women's Assembly will go to earthquake regions on 8 March

TJA and HDP Women's Assembly will meet women in the 10 cities affected by the earthquake in Maraş as part of the March 8 events this year.

The Free Women's Movement (Tevgera Jinên Azad-TJA) and the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Women's Assembly announced the plan of activities for this year's 8 March, International Women's Day.

Activities will be organized in the 10 cities affected by the earthquakes in Maraş, confirmed the TJA, saying that the slogan of International Women’s day this year will be "Women's Solidarity Keeps Alive". The HDP Women's Assembly launched its program with the slogan "We are not alone, we are together - Jin, Jiyan, Azadi".

TJA members and HDP women will set off by loading the kits they have prepared for women on the Purple Trucks. Departing from the Aegean, Marmara, Central Anatolia, Serhat and Amed regions, women will organize solidarity activities with women in Hatay, Antep (Dilok), Maraş, Adiyaman (Semsûr), Malatya (Meletî), Urfa (Riha), Adana, Amed, Kilis and Osmaniye.

The March 8 program of the TJA and HDP Women's Assembly is as follows:

* Women from TJA, who will gather in Serhat, will be in Malatya on 1 March together with HDP MPs Dilan Diyet Taşdemir, Gülistan Kılıç Koçyiğit and Şevin Coşkun.

* TJA members from the Aegean region and HDP MPs Tülay Hatimoğulları and Serpil Kemalbay, will be in Hatay on 3 March.

* HDP co-chair Pervin Buldan, Women's Assembly spokesperson Ayşe Acar Başaran, co-chais and co-spokespersons of HDP component parties will be in Hatay on 4 March.

  * Women from the cities of Central Anatolia will be in Antep on 4 March together with HDP Group Deputy Chairman Meral Danış Beştaş, MPs Filiz Kerestecioğlu and Muazzez Orhan.

* Women from the Marmara Region will be in Maraş on 6 March together with HDP deputies Oya Ersoy, Hüda Kaya, Züleyha Gülüm and Dilşat Canbaz.

* TJA women, together with HDP Deputy Feleknas Uca, will be in Urfa on 1 March, while in Amed on 3 March the women will be joined by Dersim Dağ and Remziye Tosun. Women will be in Siirt (Sêrt) on 5 March together with MP Nuran İmir. HDP Spokesperson Ebru Günay and Deputy Pero Dündar, will depart from Mardin (Merdîn) to Adiyaman on 4 March.

* Within the scope of the program, HDP co-chair Pervin Buldan will speak at the Parliamentary Women's Group Meeting on 7 March.

* In addition, the TJA will promote marches in Van (Wan), Batman (Êlih), Siirt, Şirnak and Mardin on 8 March.