The Dicle Amed Women’s Platform (Dicle Amed Kadın Platformu, DAKAP) has been prevented by the Turkish police from holding a rally in memory of murdered women on Dağkapı square in Amed (Diyarbakir). The activists, who carried signs with pictures of the murdered women, were surrounded by police forces. Pictures of the three revolutionaries Sakine Cansız, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Şaylemez murdered by the Turkish state in Paris and Kurdish activists Sêvê Demir, Pakize Nayır and Fatma Uyar murdered in Silopi were confiscated by police.

The women, including HDP member of parliament Remziye Tosun and Rosa women's association chairperson Adalet Kaya, chose a nearby park for their memorial. Adalet Kaya, who had been arrested in the summer for her activities in the Rosa women's association along with numerous other women, made a statement here on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, November 25.

"Women are murdered, raped and sexually harassed every day. It is the masculinity mechanism behind which fathers, partners, husbands, relatives and lovers hide in their male roles that leads to daily femicides. Women are murdered because they are not protected despite a court order. They are murdered because the Istanbul Convention is not applied. This is a state mechanism, state-sponsored male violence," said Adalet Kaya.

The life stories of 41 murdered women were then read out.