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• Female guerrillas: We will make 2015 the year of women's liberation 

  Woman guerrillas in Kandil organised an event to mark the International Women's Day yesterday . Guerrillas promised to make 2015 the year of meeting with Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan and women's liberation.
• Military coup in Turkey cleared women from the streets 

  ‘Women’s Day’ (8 March) was first celebrated in Turkey in 1921, but was halted by the military coup of 1980. After a 4-year hiatus it began to be celebrated again in 1984.
• KCK: Women have a determining role in the building of communal life 

  KCK released a statement to mark International Women's Day which it described as the day of unity, solidarity and struggle against the five thousand-year-old male-dominant ruling, the dominant culture of gender, violence, rape and sexual abuse.
• Thousands of women join the rally in Kadıköy 

  Thousands of women gathered in Kadıköy for the big march to mark the International Women’s Day on the call of 8 March Platform formed by various feminist and women’s organisations in Istanbul.
• YPJ and women in Kobanê mark International Women’s Day 

  8 March International Women's Day has been marked also in the recently liberated town of Kobanê where female fighters have waged a historic struggle against the ISIS gangs.
• 8 March celebrated across North Kurdistan 

  8 March, International Women’s Day, is being marked and celebrated all over North Kurdistan and Turkey today in many rallies and marches led by women who are rising up for their rights and freedom and condemning the male violence and male dominance.
• Internationalist female fighter martyred in Til Temir 

  Internationalist fighter Ivana Hoffman, nom de guerre Avaşin Tekoşin Güneş, in the ranks of the MLKP (Marxist Leninist Communist Party) has lost her life in clashes with ISIS gangs in Til Temir.
• 8 March celebrated in Kurdistan mountains 

  Hundreds of female guerrillas affiliated to the Women’s Guerrilla Army YJA Star (Free Women’s Troops) celebrated International Women's Day, 8 March, in Medya Defense Zones.
• YPJ: There can be no revolution and freedom without women 

  YPJ (Women's Defense Units) General Command has issued a statement to mark International Women's Day, stressing that there can be no revolution and freedom without women.
• Women from across the world gather at Rojava border 

  Large numbers of women who came together for the World March of Women (WMW) in Nusaybin district of Mardin have marched to the Rojava border where they met women from Cizire Canton of Rojava.
• Women guerrillas welcome 8 March 

  YJA Star guerrillas are preparing to celebrate 8 March which they say is a day of resistance and struggle of women.
• WMW’s 4th International Action kicks off in Kurdistan 

  Activities as part of the 4th International Action of the World March of Women (WMW) have commenced in Nusaybin district of Mardin in order to salute the Rojava women’s revolution.
• Öcalan: Our revolution is a women's revolution 

  "Equality and freedom can only be attained on the basis of the women issue. This is why our revolution is a women's revolution," read a message from Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan marking 8 March International Women's Day.
• Öcalan's message to be read at 8 March rally at Kobanê border 

  Thousands of women from across North Kurdistan and Turkey are flocking to the village of Mehser at Kobanê border for a massive regional rally to be held March 8 to mark International Women's Day.
• Women in Kobanê mark 8 March 

  This year's activities to mark the International Women's Day 8 March in Kobanê are being organised by Yekîtiya Star, organization of Kurdish women in Rojava (West) Kurdistan.
• KJK calls on all women to join the World Women’s March 

  he Kurdistan Women’s Communities (Komalen Jinen Kurdistan, KJK) has issued a written statement calling on all women to join the World March of Women.
• Women from Sinjar celebrate 8 March in Amed 

  Amed Municipality organised an event yesterday to celebrate 8 March in the Fidanlık Camp, where Yazidi people from Sinjar were sheltered after they had have to take flight to North Kurdistan following the attacks of ISIS on the area.
• 8 March celebrations in many towns 

  While preparations continue in Nusaybin where the World Women’s March will begin, International Women’s Day celebrations are taking place in many towns.
• “Women need self-defence forces more than ever” 

  The Kurdish Women’s Movement International Office has issued a statement to mark 8 March, International Women’s Day, calling on women to develop self defence mechanisms and to strongly resist male dominance.
• 8 March activities commence in Cizre 

  Activities to mark 8 March, International Women’s Day, in Kurdistan commenced in Cizre district of Şırnak yesterday, with a rally held by thousands of women at the Çerkendal Square.
• Amed will host women from across the world on 8 March 

  The main Kurdish province of North Kurdistan, Amed, is prepared to host women from across the world on International Women’s Day, 8 March.
• Woman burnt alive in Manisa 

  A woman whose body was found in an abandoned cottage in Akhisar district of Manisa and whose name has not yet been identified had been burned alive, according to an autopsy report.
• Programme of activities for 8 March announced 

  This year’s activities to mark 8 March International Women’s Day in North Kurdistan are being organised by the World Women’s March.
• Thousands march in Mersin for Özgecan 

  Thousands of people held a march in Mersin today in protest at the murder of Özgecan Aslan, blockading the D-400 highway, to demand justice for the 20-year-old woman, who was brutally killed after being raped.
• Thus spoke Erdoğan, and targeted women once again 

  Turkish president Erdoğan has once again targeted feminists, accusing them of having “nothing to do with our religion and civilisation”.