Kurdish Women

To the women of the world:

Let us turn the 21st century into the era of women’s freedom!
From the mountains of Kurdistan, in the lands where society developed with the leadership of women, we salute you with our great freedom, passion, ambition, and unbreakable struggle. From Rojava’s neighborhoods to South America’s forests, from Europe’s streets to Africa’s plains, from the Middle East’s valleys to North America’s plazas, from Asia’s mountains to Australia’s plateaus; with our love which knows no borders and with our most revolutionary feelings, we embrace all women who intensify the struggle for freedom and equality. Continue reading “To the women of the world:” →

Kurdish Women, Operation Olive Branch, War crimes, Yezidi

WE DEMAND AN IMMEDIATE HALT TO TURKEY’S WAR ON THE PEOPLE OF AFRIN:   OPEN LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER THERESA MAY

Peace in Kurdistan – Women Alliance for Kurdistan, Iraq and Syria

 Dear Prime Minister

 On International Women’s Day 2018 we call on your government to acknowledge and condemn the Turkish invasion of Afrin and the attacks currently taking place there against a women’s revolution in Afrin in Northern Syria.

 The invasion constitutes a war of aggression and is therefore in breach of international law. Its continuation is in clear breach of Security Council Resolution 2401.  Continue reading “WE DEMAND AN IMMEDIATE HALT TO TURKEY’S WAR ON THE PEOPLE OF AFRIN:   OPEN LETTER TO PRIME MINISTER THERESA MAY” →

Kurdish Women, Uncategorized

Resistance and Living Utopia: Women’s Liberation and Democratic Autonomy in Syrian Kurdistan

WEDNESDAY 8 MARCH – UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER

The School of History, Politics and International Relations, University of Leicester in association with Peace in Kurdistan – Women Alliance for Kurdistan, Iraq and Syria are pleased to invite to a seminar on International Women’s Day.

5.30-7.30pm in Attenborough Tower Lecture Theatre 1

The Rojava revolution in Northern Syria is at its heart, a women’s revolution. The majority Kurdish regions in Northern Syria are undergoing a profound democratic transformation that offers the possibility of peace and freedom with the full participation of women. Continue reading “Resistance and Living Utopia: Women’s Liberation and Democratic Autonomy in Syrian Kurdistan” →

Kurdish Women

“To all women, who are searching for truth, justice and love”, Ocalan

Greetings message from Abdullah Ocalan, which was read at a rally on International

Women’s Day in Amed (Diyarbakir) on 3 March 2013.

First of all, I would like to express my dismay that International Women’s Day on 8th March is only on a single day because it must be one of life’s indispensable conditions that every day is a day for women and for freedom. But it makes it clear that women do not have any real control over their own lives. That women are only appreciated one day in the year makes the extent of their enslavement all too clear. For me, it is a theme on which I am concentrating more and more. I do not consider the woman question as independent from war. Like with all revolutions, even today’s, in particular the revolution in Kurdistan, the woman question is the most important theme that needs to be resolved. It lies right at the heart of every question that concerns war and the progress of a peace process.

Continue reading ““To all women, who are searching for truth, justice and love”, Ocalan” →