The story of Zainab, held hostage for ransom in Serekaniye. Originally published in Arabic here. Hamza Hamaki Jumah Sheikho did not expect that the decision to return with his wife to his city, Serekaniye, would end in tragedy. On October 9, last year, Turkey, with factions affiliated with the Syrian opposition, launched a major military invasion from Serekaniye to Gire Spi. Fierce battles erupted on a 120-km front on the …
Hemrin Salah left her home in Serekaniye when the Turkish state and its jihadist mercenaries began their invasion. She talks about the history and resistance of the region, and why no matter what the cost people will not accept occupation and demographic change.
We want to share with you the memories, thoughts, pain and feelings of a comrade. She shared life and struggle with 3 revolutionary women who were the protagonists of that struggle that laid the foundations of the women’s revolution in Rojava. Zilan Diyar tells us about them, about the unbridgeable void they left behind and what they taught her. Because Heval Sara (Sakine Cansız), Heval Rojbin (Fidan Doğan) and Heval …
The road has become that of successors Who will give up this fight? Adorned by their courage, we flow into tomorrow We are the Phoenix, we are born from our ashes ELIF MERCAN I will never go back I am the woman, I woke up I became the storm over my children’s burnt bodies I found my way, and I will never go back (Meena Keshwar Kamal) Thousands of women …
On the 9th of January 2013 three prominent Kurdish Freedom Movement and Kurdish Women’s Movement activists, Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Doğan and Leyla Söylemez were assassinated in Paris, France. Their murders were an attack on the struggle and values their lives were a part of. Their memory lives on in every act of defiance of patriarchy and of building freedom. The Rojava revolution is a part of their legacy. The Revolutionary …
To The Media and Public Opinion On 9 January 2013, three Kurdish revolutionary women, heval Sara (Sakine Cansiz), heval Rojbin (Fidan Dogan) and heval Ronahi (Leyla Şaylemez), were killed by the Turkish state intelligence in Paris. This martyrdom of heval Sara and her friends was carried out by international forces in the wake of the international conspiracy of 9 October. Heval Sara was recognized as a militant and revolutionary woman …
We, a group of women from the Women Defend Rojava campaign, are on our way to Til Temir (Tell Tamer). I have always known Til Temir as a town in Northen Syria where many different population groups live together. We are going today to conduct interviews and talk especially with Assyrian women to see how they experience the current war situation and how they resist. On the way between Hesekê …
Zapatista women held a gathering at the end of December 2019, for global women’s struggle. The invasion prevented the women of North and East Syria from sending a delegation but a message was shared about our hearts were there. After the conference the Zapatisa women released the following statement, originally published: https://enlacezapatista.ezln.org.mx/2020/01/03/words-of-the-zapatista-women-at-the-closing-of-the-second-international-gathering-of-women-who-struggle/ ZAPATISTA ARMY FOR NATIONAL LIBERATION MEXICO December 29, 2019 Compañeras and sisters: We want to share a few …
Selva Ahmed, one of many women displaced by the Turkish invasion, speaks about their situation; about resistance, identity, land and belonging, and what the women of North and East Syria demand from the international community.
