YJA-Star (Free Women’s Troops) guerrilla Lavîn Marînos spoke to ANF and described her joining the PKK as the keystone for her deep understanding about women's truth, telling the following;

"Before I joined the guerrilla ranks, I neither knew about the movement's truth nor was I aware of such deep social realities centering around women. I was brought nearer to the movement through activities of youths circles which I joined later in my life, and my discordance with the ruling system assumed a more profound form as my knowledge grew about the freedom movement. Here it were especially the life stories and martyrdom of martyr Zîlan and martyr Bêrîtan which have had the most intense effect on my understanding. After I started to realize and think about how my engagement in this issue needs to look like and to which motivations it needs to adhere to, I finally made the step to join the ranks of the freedom fighters. Here I received along with the other newly joined fighters holistic education, by which I learned how to assess the system. If one looks at it, it is obvious how the system is oppressing women in all manners, reduces her to a slave and vents practices of abuse and torture on her. The prevalent system offers nothing but a caged life in houses to women. But when one looks at the PKK, one can see that women are leading in all fields. Women are raised to the levels of goddesses here in the free mountains. The reality here within the PKK wields great influence on the morale. We learn here from every aspect of our life and are moved to gain knowledge and to make progress, which leaves us in a permanent pulsing flow of struggle to the fore."

Lavîn underlined that she evolved and gained strength through the education within the PKK, and continued: "I gained incredible knowledge with the education here. Yes, I had visited school back at home, but the education here was of an absolute different kind and level by which I even gained my medical expertise on treatment. I gained that much knowledge to undertake here my role as one of the medical staff at the front lines. Practice in real life tends to teach you things very fast, and so I progressed very fast with the medical education offered here. Contrary to that, to be a doctor within the ruling system people need to cram for years through day and night and still barely manage to handle a profession.

As for me here, I am as a medical personnel also directly engaged in battles which means when my comrades get wounded I am on the spot to provide them with instant emergency treatment. It is also because when I see my comrades getting wounded I cannot but be overcome by the urge to save their lives. That is the reason that I see my work as part of the medical staff as a matter of utmost importance. We regard the lives of our comrades as too dear, and do everything to save it."

Guerrilla Lavîn gave at the end the message, "We have moved forward into the year of 2017 in accordance with some of our goals. In that respect we will continue our actions until our leader Apo is freed from the four walls of İmralı, and we will make sure that this year will be the year of our leader's and our people's freedom.

Everybody should join the PKK and witness the truth with their own eyes. I talk especially about the women who shall break their chains of slavery and come to find within the ranks of the freedom fighters their esteem of goddesses. See who you are, see what you truly are."