The Kurdish Women's Movement in Europe (TJK-E) has released a statement on the recent cases of rape and sexual assault against Kurdish women and girls by Turkish officers and state employees and called for resistance.

The statement of the TJK-E reads as follows:

"The massive attack and annihilation policy of the fascist AKP/MHP bloc in Kurdistan is systematically underpinned with the rape culture of the patriarchal mentality. The Kurdish enmity of the Erdogan regime is not limited to the occupation attacks in all parts of Kurdistan. The attacks and rapes committed by separately commissioned soldiers and officers in the Kurdish provinces demonstrate the depth of the centrally controlled concept of war.

Sergeant Musa Orhan systematically raped a woman in Batman and declared that nothing could ever happen to him. He was then released after the Turkish Minister of the Interior, Süleyman Soylu, stood up for him. Immediately afterwards it became known that a sergeant in Van raped a 17-year-old girl. These incidents are an indication that the rape policy of the state is in place. The rape order comes from Erdogan, who has always attacked the resisting peoples and women.

Abdullah Öcalan's paradigm of women's liberation continues to spread throughout the world on a daily basis and represents the hope for an alternative life. In Turkey, Kurdish women are fighting against the oppression of society containing inhuman acts and arrests. In the face of this struggle, Erdogan and the fascist system he represents are doomed to collapse.

We call on the women from Kurdistan and all antifascist people to resist the rape culture of the Turkish state. Through the resistance of women, humanity will win. To be silent to the rape culture means complicity. Rape is a state policy of Erdogan.”

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