Women's conference underway in Amed

Women from the HDP met at a conference in Amed with the slogan “We insist on freedom, and we are committed to the struggle”.

The Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Amed Provincial Organization organized a two-day women's  conference.

HDP Amed Provincial organization's Women's Conference started with the motto "We are determined in the struggle for freedom".

HDP deputies Remziye Tosun, Dersim Dağ and Democratic Regions Party (DBP), Democratic Society Congress (DTK), Socialist Party of the Oppressed (ESP), Peace Mothers Assembly, HDP Central Executive Committee (MYK), Party Assembly (PM) members and Free Women's Movement (TJA) activists all attend the conference.

HDP Amed Provincial co-chair Hülya Alökmen Uyanık, HDP PM Rabia Tekas and TJA activist Zekiye Güler were elected to the Council.

In her opening speech, Hülya Alökmen Uyanık commemorated the women massacred in Silopi district of Şırnak on 5 January 2015 and in Paris on 9 January 2013.

Alökmen saluted the arrested female politicians and stressed that they continue to struggle with the power they receive from their comrades.

After the opening speech, the conference continued closed to the press.