Women came together in Kobane canton of North and East Syria to celebrate International Women’s Day with a demonstration organised as, “Our struggle is the guarantee of the women’s revolution”, Jin News reports.
The 8 March demonstration in Kobane was dedicated to Hebûn Koma Mele, Zehra Berkel and Emine Mihemed Weysî, the women who were killed in an air strike by Turkish military jets on 23 June 2020
After a minute of silence for the women who lost their lives in the struggle for the Rojava revolution, Mizgin Xelil and Lemis Abdullah shared their messages for the 8th March
Mizgin Xelil spoke on behalf of the Star Congress, a progressive women’s organization in North and East Syria
“The 21st century is the year of women’s struggle and resistance. We are now living in liberated territories thanks to our pioneering women. The Rojava revolution has become a women’s revolution. We have achieved the Rojava revolution all together, we will continue to fight against the fascist nation state mentalities all together,” she said
‘Women’s struggle has become the target of fascism’
Xelil also greeted the imprisoned Kurdish woman politicians in Turkey. “The increasing women’s struggle in Turkey has now become the target of fascism. Leyla Güven and Ayşe Gökkan is an example of that, but women’s will to resist can not be broken via kidnapping, detention and murder,” she said
Xelil stressed the importance of the 8 March for women in struggle. “On the occasion of the 8 March, women around the world have shown that they have the will to resist and they are struggling. As our leader Apo (she refers to the Kurdistan Workers’s Party -PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan) says, unless women are liberated, society cannot be liberated. We will continue our struggle within this regard,” she said
Speaking later, Lemis Abdullah, a representative of the Armenian people living in North and East Syria who spoke on behalf of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES), shared her call to struggle with all the peoples living in the region
“Let us continue and grow our struggle as Turkmen, Circassian, Arab, Syriac and Kurdish peoples of the region,” she said