BERLIN – At the international women’s conference of the network “Women weaving Future” that ended on Sunday, October 6, our news agency was also present to get the opinion of some of the participants. In addition to messages that the young women gave by positioning themselves against the use of chemical weapons by the Turkish occupying soldiers, they also evaluated the importance of the conference currently taking place and looked at the current situation with a critical eye.
Sozan Ombor, like many other young women from 41 different parts of the world, participated in the conference and told our news agency about the purpose of her participation in the conference and also drew attention to the attacks against women taking place worldwide. Since women are not only attacked by individuals but also by states and hegemonic forces, it is equally important to organize as women worldwide and learn from each other. She stated:
“So for one thing, I’m here today so that our voice of women can be heard much more and that we can also learn from each other. There are feminists and indigenous women and Kurdish women around the world who have come and brought their perspectives together. Women from all over the world have come together to tell what the perspective is in their countries, in their regions and how we can organize together worldwide. And what does organizing together mean anyway? So why we women should be organized together, should be organized autonomously. We learned a lot about that today.
On the one hand because we are also in a phase where the woman is attacked every day, we are no longer attacked only in the household, that is by the family where there is the ruler, but we are attacked in every form. We are attacked by the state, by the ruling powers.
powers we are attacked.”
On the other hand, Sozan Ombor drew attention to the pioneering role of women worldwide and criticized the interference of international powers in the revolution of women, as well as the criminalization of the PKK which finally gave birth to the slogan “Jin, Jiyan, Azadî, saying:
“We see that women always offer an alternative to the current system of how society should be structured, because the revolution and society is always led by women. As Rêber APO says: “The society cannot be free if the women are not free”, so it is even more important to participate in such conferences where the women tell about their pioneering role, say where we are and how we can classify it. How we can also put it that we are in a third world war and why do we call it a third world war? Because as I mentioned earlier, we are no longer being attacked individually, but we are also being attacked by the states.
We see that also in Iran, in Rojhilat and Beluchistan. There, the women are in a vanguard but all countries want to interfere respectively take the slogan for themselves. They want to make a pop culture out of it, with Jin, Jiyan, Azadî. But that in other countries the Kurdish movement is considered a terrorist movement is considered as a terrorist organization, although this is our slogan and who brought this slogan to the world or let it blossom? It was mainly Rêber APO and the Kurdish women’s movement. We should analyze more where something came from and what kind of history it has and that’s why I say Jin, Jiyan, Azadî!”
Furthermore, the young activist Sozan made it clear that women around the world have also come together here to oppose the attacks on Kurdistan with chemical weapons. She made it clear that if someone does not stand against chemical weapons, there is nothing else that the person stands against and concluded her speech by asking people to become the breath of the guerrillas:
“Why we have also come together here is that all of us who have met here worldwide, that we all want to stand up against Turkey’s chemical weapons and against what Turkey and NATO are doing right now in Kurdistan, with the chemical weapons. Against this we want to be here a common strength and say that we oppose any chemical weapons. Who does not oppose I do not know what else you can oppose. Even war should have a character, it becomes characterless it becomes undignified, chemical weapons are used. A war can not be and it should not be waged. Let us become the breath of the guerrillas.”
The women who met this weekend in the capital Berlin also took a stand against the attacks of the Turkish occupying state with chemical weapons and made clear that they also want to organize with each other to respond to these cruel attacks.
The young internationalist Klara who also participated in the conference stated:
“I as a young woman also stand here today to position myself against the poison gas attacks in Kurdistan, because poison gas really violates every right and it’s just a dirty tool that is used against the revolution there.”
Florentina who had personally traveled to the holy land of Kurdistan made the following clear:
“I’m here because I was a young woman and feminist woman in Kurdistan and I’m against the chemical war and the chemical weapons that are being used against the Kurdish people.”
The young activist Laurencía made to our news agency what similarities there are between the goals of her people and the internationalist women’s conference, saying:
“Hello, I’m Laurencía from Placa de los Pueblos, for us it’s very important to be here to discuss our common struggles in our territories, because indigenous peoples do everything for life. In a world where we humans are not the only living beings, in a world where resources are not just resources because they have been here long before us and we have to take care of them, treat them with respect to create a symbiotic relationship. One of the foundations of Quechua is basically what we are doing here…Jin, Jiyan, Azadî!”
Another young participant at the conference named Lena Maria drew attention to the use of chemical weapons by the Turkish occupying state against the guerrilla areas in southern Kurdistan, and explained that women at this conference are uniting around the world to take a stand against it.
“Against the war crimes of the Turkish state and the use of chemical weapons, we unite as women worldwide and shout Jin, Jiyan, Azadî.”
NC// Seher Deniz
