The Kurdistan Solidarity Network Jin, WDR UK Committee, Kurdish Women’s Initiative UK, Kurdish People’s Assembly UK, Southall Black Sisters, Women’s Strike Assembly and FiLia issued a statement on the murder of Sada al-Harmoush (co-chair of the City Council) and Hind al-Khedr (person in charge of the economic committee) in Al-Shedad (Heseke).

The statement said: “These murders were brutal, calculated and, tragically, not unique. This is the next in a line of targeted killings of the women who are the vanguard of the women’s revolution. ISIS and groups like them are fundamentally weak. Like a parasite they can’t even survive without the host it attacks, they are waging a war on life itself.”

The statement continued: “The fascist Turkish state is constantly funding and supporting these groups and often gives the order for assassinations such as these. In turn, the British state and others like it support Turkey in its aims and proxy-wars. We hold the international players who claim to be fighting for freedom and democracy accountable for attacks like these.”

The signatories remind that “the Kurdish Women’s Movement is already struggling against the murder of women in its campaign against the Turkish state’s brutality” and called on everyone to sign up to the campaign 100 reasons to prosecute a dictator.