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“The more I understand, the more I am free, but the more difficult it is because liberation costs a heavy price. Growing up in Middle Eastern culture, living far from its history, not knowing my history, and not knowing where I stand in history is a painful and challenging situation as a Kurd.
Before getting to know Leader Apo and the consciousness of history, I thought history meant transferring the past events and facts of a society to the next generations, reviving what happened in the past in this way. My approach to history was very narrow.
The only history education I have ever seen was in the Turkish state’s schools that were hostile, spiteful and only put itself into history books, ignoring all other people except itself.
It is the mountains of Kurdistan, which have protected our existence for thousands of years and are now home to the militants of Leader Apo, which have taught me that history is a universal and holistic phenomenon,
I cannot explain the happiness it gives me to be on these mountains …
I ask myself if my eyes were sealed shut before I came to the mountains of Freedom. I have only recently understood the oppression of women under the system of capitalist modernity, the damage the system has inflicted on women, and how these destructions have a negative impact on women.
The more I understand, the more difficult it is. Leader Apo says “understanding is liberation” and I feel that I am liberated as I understand, and being free is not an easy issue, finally seeing brings with it pain.
The women’s freedom movement line is as vital and basic as bread and water. And women depend on these basic needs in order to survive. But I am aware that in order for women to recapture the essence of the goddess, in order to reach our own core and truth, I must be in a constant effort to walk along the line of women’s freedom and to be worthy of them.
As a woman, I will be the constructing militant of the Kurdistan revolution. For this, I will remove all obstacles in front of me. I will complete myself and walk in the footsteps of the martyrs who have come before me.
Ruken Kato-Cilo
5 August 2014″
