“In addition to racist, religious-fundamentalist and sexist oppression, Turkey aims to erase the vestiges of the history of women and the matriarchal and egalitarian culture in our region,” reads the statement, which was read in the capital of Afrin yesterday.

“In addition to racist, religious-fundamentalist and sexist oppression, Turkey aims to erase the vestiges of the history of women and the matriarchal and egalitarian culture in our region,” reads the statement, which was read in the capital of Afrin yesterday. the morning.

“In addition to racist, religious-fundamentalist and sexist oppression, Turkey aims to erase the vestiges of the history of women and the matriarchal and egalitarian culture in our region,” reads the statement, which was read in the capital of Afrin yesterday. the morning.

In support of the call for women in the city of Tibersipiye, in the canton of Cizire, this morning a non-mixed demonstration took place in the center of the city. Likewise, the European march from Luxburgo to Strasbourg, where more than 200 people from 17 different countries are participating, have expressed their support for the feminist solidarity campaign in their official communiqué.

Source: Near East Destination by Sara A. de Ceano-Vivas. The Kurdistan women’s movement in Afrin, Kongra Star, has made a global appeal to all women and feminist groups to stand in solidarity with Afrin’s resistance through actions and protests.

The bombings on the temple of Ain Dara, which harbored traces of matricental culture in the territory have been completely eliminated.

The one meter long footprints, symbolizing the presence of the goddess Ishtar in the sacred place, as well as the relief of the winged lion with the head of a woman, were a unique representation of the important role played by women during the Neolithic revolution of the first settlements in the region. “Bombing and devastating this temple the Turks seek to establish by force their patriarchal and fascist order,” the statement continues. The Turkish army and its allies of radical Islamist factions, such as the Hayat Tahrir Al-Sham group, the former al-Qaeda branch in Syria, turn women into targets and spoils of war.

The violence exerted on the combatant Barin Kobani, who was mutilated and her body broadcast on video through the internet, demonstrates the misogenic and femicide mentality of these groups.

Like Daesh (Islamic State) forced women to wear the burqa, to always be accompanied by a male relative or forced marriages, both adult women and girls, the patriarchal mentality of the Islamist factions allied to Turkey, have applied this same policy to women in the territories they control. Lamiya Aji Bashar, an 18-year-old Yazidi girl who escaped her Islamic State captors. Sheiddd one of thousands of women tortured, raped and sold a slaves. Many survivoirs have now formed a women’s militia and are fighting ISIS alongside the women’s YPJ of the Rojava revolution.

Even the President of the Republic of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, made propaganda in favor of the war using a girl who was not more than six years old, covering her head and shoulders with a hijab, recited an Islamist poem in the parliamentary session of February 6.

The verses were those of the Turkish nationalist, Ziya Gokalp, who say the following: “the minarets are our bayonets, the domes our helmets, the mosques our barracks and the believers our soldiers.” To end the intervention shouting loudly “Allahu akbar”.

According to Kongra Star sources, the YPJ forces and civilian female forces have gathered around ten thousand volunteers to defend Afrin. YPJ forces now fighting in the desperate defence of Afrin thousands of German made tanks and NATO warplanes After six years of revolution, where autonomous democratic structures for women, cooperatives and academies have been built, where women have been protected against domestic violence, where labor insertion and economic independence have been promoted, women in the territory know that under the rule of Turkey everything for which they have fought would vanish. That is why thousands of women have decided that they prefer to die fighting rather than losing everything they have built with so much effort and sacrifice. Some of them have already given their lives, as has the case of Avêsta Xabûr, who, following in the footsteps of Arîn Mîrkan, carried out a self-sacrificing action to prevent the entry of Turkish tanks into the territory on 27 June. January. To honor the memory of the fighter in Afrin, a cemetery has been inaugurated with the name of the fighter and in Kobane a school has also been renamed with her name. Throughout the day a strong propaganda through social networks, under the HT #WomenRiseUpForAfrin, has spread the request of the women of Afrin.

“While international institutions and governments are silent on abuses of international law and war crimes, we believe that women’s international solidarity will be our strongest weapon to defeat fascism and patriarchy.”