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Komalên Jinên Ciwan Coordination shared a written statement, inviting young women to a united struggle and the mountains of freedom, to an alternative life constructed by women. The statement addressed “To All Young Women and the Public,” is as follows:
“We welcome the November 25 Day of the Struggle Against Violence Against Women, in a process where male fascism and state terror are on their way to collapse and the woman’s freedom struggle is becoming universal. On November 25, when the Mirabel sisters were brutally murdered years ago, the entire woman population was given the message that if you attain a political identity, if you speak out and fight like them, you will face such an end. Today, the same masculinity is trying to dominate women, terrorizing them. Young women are the group most affected by these terrorist policies.
In particular, all kinds of special war methods have been put in place to force the young women of Kurdistan to surrender. All kinds of violence are attempted through young women and then spread to the rest of society. This violence sometimes takes the form of femicide, child abuse, sometimes harassment and rape, sometimes with the games and agents of police and soldiers under a nonsense which is being named as love, sometimes through detentions and arrests, sometimes through disappearances, sometimes through child and forced marriages, sometimes by rushing to the sanctified family and marriage institution, sometimes it shows itself by usurping women’s political gains.
Just as the Mirabel sisters were murdered and the women who resisted were tried to be annihilated, today the same messages are given through the persons of Leyla Agiri, İpek Er, Gülistan Doku, and Hevrin Xelef.
As the young women’s movement, we say no to all these forms of masculinity, attacks, fascism and terror. We call on young women in all of Kurdistan and abroad to say “No” and to fight against masculinity on the occasion of this 25 November. Just as male terror has targeted all women regardless of their language, religion, race, age, or political opinion; It is imperative that we young women stand on a common front of resistance to overthrow the masculine mentality.
For this reason, students, workers, domestic workers, unemployed people, and everyone else should mobilize at areas of action and on the streets on 25 November. Socialist, democratic, revolutionary, feminist, patriotic young women’s organizations should say No to male fascism, they should stand shoulder to shoulder in action areas. Through self-defense, the streets should become dangerous for male-dominant mentalities, not women! Within the framework of the November 25 declaration announced by KJK, we should actively welcome this day as the young women’s front.
Even though the male state tries to narrow our living spaces by attacking us young women, young women all over the world have raised their cries of resistance. Our women’s liberation ideology, developed under the leadership of Leader Apo, has created an alternative life for all oppressed and exploited young women. The women’s liberation struggle and its militants have taken the lead of this struggle in the mountains and cities. For this reason, our call to young women who expressed their reactions and attitudes on the occasion of November 25, and those who say there is no other life and solution, is that an alternative life is built in the mountains of Kurdistan under the leadership of women.
We invite all young women to take part in this freedom journey, to break away from all institutions and structures of the man’s state, and to resist to deal the final blow to male fascism. Once again, we say no to male fascism and state that we will create a free future by protecting society and women through our struggle.”
