TJA (Tevgera Jinen Azad-Free Women's Movement) issued a statement to condemn the appointment of trustees to the DEM Party-run municipalities of Batman, Mardin and Halfeti.

The statement said: "We know very well how this regime, which ignores the constitutional right of a people who have declared their will again after eight years, views women, Kurds, Kurdistan and all others. Today, we are witnessing a policy of femicide where the mindset of 'shoot women first' is embodied and usurped. What the male-state mind has put into effect today with its colonial appetite is essentially a culture of loot.

These municipalities were transformed into institutions where the public could not enter, where men dominated, and where they were used as areas of profit and destruction. All mechanisms that provided free transportation support to women, prevented violence against women, and created living spaces for women were attempted to be destroyed by the trustee regime, which was a male state policy. All women's gains built in local governments, from economy to culture, from health to education and ecology, were rendered dysfunctional. Trustee cadres were appointed to all units established within the municipality regarding women's policies without wasting time."

The statement added: "As of March 31, the first action in all our municipalities that were won was to implement studies on women's policies. Studies based on a democratic operation based on a relationship of trust with the public were breathlessly implemented. A unity was created that organized ourselves and the city together with the public with democratic ecological women's liberation policies.

The fact that this policy is being put back into effect on the anniversary of the November 4 coup, which is a black mark on Turkish history, is meaningful as well as the reality of the AKP-MHP regime. Our municipalities that were usurped in 2016 and 2019 have been subjected to the same mentality's plunder policies today. The practice of this mentality, which emphasized peace and solution in the country more recently, is obvious, which has thwarted itself but also exposed the male state mentality. Despite all the reactions of society, Mardin, Batman, Halfeti Municipalities, who were appointed to Esenyurt Municipality last week, were usurped."

The statement continued: "This regime, these policies are called the regime of usurpation. It is a constitutional violation of women's right to expression and will. What is revealed by this pirate policy is that these practices, which are put into practice through oppression and male state violence, are trying to leave women and peoples with an insecure future and to create themselves by ignoring those who are not their own. We call on all international women's institutions, democratic mass organizations, and individuals to lend their voices to us Kurdish women and to increase solidarity in international circles in order to put an end to these practices that go beyond even the 1982 coup constitution, which is still in effect today."

The statement said: "It is the oppression and violence that is being communicated to the co-mayors elected by women with great will through the coup. We did not bow down to the coup plotters yesterday, and we will not bow down today either. We will take back what is rightfully ours under any circumstances. Women will stay and the coup plotters will go. Our last word to those who left yesterday without an owner, today without anyone and tomorrow without hope is to continue to weave life in the color of women by resisting and winning."