The Women’s Movement Kongra Star published a monthly newsletter on the developments and agendas of women in North an East Syria. The Women’s Revolution is entering its 10th year and in August, women in North and East Syria celebrated the anniversary of the liberation of Manbij, organized social activities to empower young women, Armenian women established the first Armenian Women’s Council, but they also took to the streets and demonstrated, …
In a letter, 56 civil organizations, women’s organizations and political parties, reflecting the diversity of society in North and East Syria, addressed the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) with a call to close the airspace over North and East Syria after Turkey again targeted women pioneers of the women’s revolution in North and East Syria with a drone strike on July 22, 2022. Turkey is deliberately attacking …
On the 22sd and 23rd of July a forum on 10 years women’s revolution took place in Qamishli, Rojava. About 200 delegates from women’s movements in North and East Syria, the Middle East and worldwide took part. Many joined also online. As a result of the intensive discussion on the women’s revolution, its achievements and its future a conclusion has been written.
Once again, the Turkish state shows its murderous and misogynistic face.On Friday, a vehicle of the YPJ Women’s Defense Units was targeted by a Turkish drone. Jiyan Tolhilan, Roj Xabûr and Barîn Botan, who were sitting in the vehicle, were on their way back from the Women’s Revolution Forum on the occasion of the 10th anniversary of the Women’s Revolution in Rojava / North East Syria. Just before her death, …
This year we celebrate the 10th anniversary of the revolution in Rojava, in North and East Syria. This revolution has become an inspiration and hope worldwide, giving strength to many movements and struggles. It has managed to build a democratic, feminist and ecological self-government project as a social alternative. It has managed to find answers to the deepening crises of the patriarchal system and at the same time to build …
We begin by celebrating the tenth anniversary of the women’s revolution of Rojava, which has shone like a beacon across the world: to the Kurdish people, to all progressive forces of humanity, and to women everywhere. We salute everyone who has played their part, given their all and and in some cases their lives to defend and to nourish this revolution, from the historic Kobane resistance until today. We honour …
After the Turkish Military Intelligence attempted an assassination of Abdullah Ocalan in Syria in 1996, Zilan (Zeynep Kinanci) took the decision to avenge this attempt and to also protest Turkeys brutal war against the Kurdish people in Turkey that was being hidden from the outside world. On 30 June 1996, she walked onto a Turkish military parade, in Dersim, exploding herself and killing about 10 Turkish soldiers. Zilan is a …
This year marks the tenth anniversary of the beginning of the revolution in Rojava. These are not only ten years of building a democratic and ecological social system in which women’s freedom comes first, but they are also 10 years of constant self-defense against the attacks of the Turkish fascist regime. This is because Turkey’s attacks on the revolution in Rojava and Northeastern Syria are a constant threat and continue …
To women and the public: To begin, chaos and crisis have been intensifying since the beginning of this century. This state of chaos is influencing all ares of life and all regions of the world. War, fighting, massacres and displacement, hunger and ecological problems, anti-democratic attitudes and violence, exploitation and occupation show us that the worldwide system is in a desperate state. While the effects of this can be felt …
