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• YJA Star Command Council holds meeting 

  At the YJA Star Command Council meeting, the importance of restructuring and tactical renewal of the guerrillas was highlighted.
• Students of the Autonomous University of Barcelona talk about struggle of Kurdish women 

  Students of the Autonomous University of Barcelona organized a panel on the struggle of Kurdish women as part of the 8 March.
• Women in Çatak protest sexual assault against 3 children by village guards in one year 

  Women in Çatak, province of Van, protested the sexual assault on 3 children by village guards in one year, drawing attention to the special war policy carried out by the AKP-MHP government.
• Woman who allegedly attempted suicide in Diyarbakır in serious conditions in hospital 

  The condition of Şaha Erdin, who allegedly attempted suicide on Thursday in Diyarbakır, is serious.
• Women launch campaign for missing student Gülistan Doku 

  Ankara Women's Platform launched an online campaign called "Where is Gülistan Doku?" to support the family of the missing young woman, and asked to meet the Ministry of Justice.
• French Kurdish Women's Movement announces week-long program to mark 8 March  

  “Resist, organize, live free!” is the slogan under which the women will hold their actions on 8 March this year. TJK-F announced the events to be held throughout France.
• Women are leading: The result of decades of heroic resistance and struggle by women’s movements 

  Women Defend Rojava shows the latest developments in North and East Syria.
• TJK-E: "Resist, Organize, Live Free!" 

  TJK-E said that between 1 and 8 March, women's voices will resonate in European countries with different agendas, to "protect freedom and increase resistance."
• HDP Women's Assembly will kick off its 8 March actions on 28 February in Izmir 

  The HDP Women's Assembly will kick off its 8 March actions on 28 February in Izmir. Dozens of actions and events will be held in 38 cities in North Kurdistan and Turkey.
• Women launch activities for 8 March in North-East Syria 

  With press conferences in Qamishlo and Raqqa, women's organisations have launched their joint programme for International Women's Day on 8 March. The motto is: "Defending our revolution together!"
• HDP Women's Assembly releases video for 8 March, International Women's Day 

  The HDP Women's Assembly released a video for 8 March, International Women's Day.
• Kongra Star promotes webinar on women's revolution as a guarantee of democratic and free society 

  Kongra Star will hold a webinar titled "Women’s revolution is a guarantee of democratic and free society" tomorrow, 21 February.
• Several detained in police attack on women’s meeting for 8 March in Ankara 

  In Ankara, a meeting of the Women's Platform for a public call for 8 March was violently dispersed by police. At least nine activists were taken into custody, and a journalist was assaulted.
• Women in solidarity with HDP MP Semra Güzel 

  It is expected that Semra Güzel will be deprived of her parliamentary mandate next week. The HDP Women's Council and the Free Women's Movement (TJA) call for solidarity with the Kurdish politician.
• Lawyer Çiğdem Sevimli said Kurdish women attacked both for being women and for being Kurds 

  Amed Bar Association Women's Rights Center representative, lawyer Çiğdem Sevimli, said Kurdish women are attacked both for being women and for being Kurds.
• Leila Khaled sends a message of solidarity to Aysel Tuğluk 

  Khaled called on the Turkish government to act in accordance with the law, justice and human rights in her message.
• SDF frees young Yazidi woman before ISIS mercenaries managed to take her to Turkey 

  A young woman named Roza Emin Bereket, who was rescued from ISIS, said: "They decided that we should be taken to Turkey. But SDF forces saved us on the way."
• Broad unemployment rate for young women in Turkey: 51.3 percent 

  Unemployment among young women is higher than men, shows the report of the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions of Turkey: Broad youth unemployment stands at 51.3 percent for women and 35.4 percent for men.
• TAJÊ Spokeswoman: Yazidi community owes Öcalan 

  The spokeswoman of the Yazidi Women's Freedom Movement said that the Yazidi community owes Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, insisting that, “We must embrace Öcalan's philosophy and ensure his physical freedom.”
• "Lost daughter of Dersim" passes away 

  The genocide survivor Fatma İçin, who was abducted from her home in Dersim in 1937/1938 as a ten-year-old and forcibly assimilated as the "adopted daughter" of a Turkish officer, has died in Adıyaman at the age of 95.
• Shengal women: We will embrace Öcalan's ideas and our achievements to the end 

  Shengal women remarked that the ideas of the Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan have spread among all peoples, saying, “We will embrace Öcalan's ideas and our achievements to the end.”
• Kiraz: We must broaden the women's alliance 

  Leman Kiraz from HDP Women's Assembly said, "We must broaden the women's struggle and alliance in order to overthrow the anti-justice, monist system."
• Women's village of Jinwar continues to build a new way of life 

  In the women's village of Jinwar in Northern and Eastern Syria, life goes on despite the war, embargo and the coronavirus. The residents wrote in a newsletter about their current situation.
• HDP Women's Assembly and TJA in Van meet to prepare 8 March program 

  The HDP Women's Assembly and TJA in Van met to prepare for the 8 March program of events to be organised in the city.
• Men kill 23 women and 3 children in January 

  In January 2022, men inflicted violence on at least 57 women, killed at least three children, abused at least 27 girls and boys, harassed at least eight women and forced at least 24 women to sex work in Turkey.