“5 minutes to election: What happened during 20 days of PKK inaction in Turkey?”
The Kurdistan Communities of Women (KJK) has published a new information file called 5 minutes to election: What happened during 20 days of PKK inaction in Turkey? which provides a useful summary of events in Kurdistan since the PKK declared a unilateral ceasefire on 10 October. The report details an alarming number of state-sponsored attacks on the AKP’s political opposition, including curfews in Kurdish districts, raids on HDP offices and military strikes against the PKK.
The report begins with this statement below and is available to download in full here (pdf).
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Women’s Movement releases report about the latest violence in Turkey
The Kurdistan Women’s Community (KJK) have released a report with their evaluation of the latest developments in Turkey and across the region. You can download the full report here and we have included below the first part of the report.
Kurdistan Women’s Community (KJK)
Umbrella organisation of the Kurdish Women’s Liberation Movement
Background Information File
Roadmap of the escalation: How did the Turkish-Kurdish conflict upsurge again?
- Political Evaluation by the KJK:
The Turkish state has declared total war on the Kurdish people. The decision to undertake this strategy of total war was made at the meeting of Turkey’s National Security Council on 30 October 2014, when the resistance against attacks by the ISIS terrorist organisation in Kobanê, Rojava (i.e. western Kurdistan, the Kurdish region Syria) reached its peak. This meeting, which lasted more than 10 hours, was illegitimately chaired by the Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan; according to Turkish law, only the country’s Prime Minister can lead National Security Council meetings. Continue reading “Women’s Movement releases report about the latest violence in Turkey”