This statement by Iranian, Kurdish, and Afghani internationalist feminists argues that we must oppose the US and Israeli military assault on Iran while also refusing to endorse the repressive Iranian government.
Genocidal imperialist projects will never liberate us, nor will patriarchal nationalist regimes protect us.
🔷As regional tensions grow, Iranian authorities have increased security measures in Kurdish-majority areas, with reports of new checkpoints, arrests, and pressure on exiled activists’ families.
The YJA Star guerrillas (Yekîneyên Jinên Azad ên Star or Free Women’s Units-Ishtar) drew attention to violence against women in the patriarchal system on the occasion of November 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women.
Highlighting that millions of women are subjected to massacres, rape, harassment and violence in the patriarchal system every day, the YJA Star guerrillas stated that this brutality against women is part of life and is intended to be legitimized.
Stating that they have taken a pioneering role in all aspects of life and war, the women guerrillas stressed that systematic violence can only end through the joint organization and self-defense of women.
The guerrilla said that in many parts of the world, policies of femicide are being carried out against women, and that these policies can be overcome with resistance and solidarity.
YPJ soldier with freed girl after the epic battle to free Manbij… Illustrating the inspiring change from medieval Sharia law to anarcha-feminism.
The YJA Star guerrillas emphasized that they fight not only for the women of Kurdistan, but also for all oppressed and violent women, giving the following message on the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on November 25:
“YJA Star is an army that defends all oppressed women, the women of Kurdistan and Turkey first and foremost, as well as Afghanistan, India and Europe. We will defeat the invaders with the motto ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadî’ (Woman, Life, Freedom).
We follow the path of selfless comrades like Asya, Rûken and Sar, who sacrificed their lives for freedom without a moment’s hesitation. As YJA Star fighters, we will strike a blow to the male-dominated system in every action we take.
The YPJ, part of the Syrian Democratic forces (SDF) of the Autonomous Administration of Noth East Syria (AANES)
We call on all young women to join the ranks of YJA Star, to join the life beautified by the Apoist philosophy (referring to Apo, Abdullah Öçalan) and to crown the struggle with success”.
YJA Star is the female armed militia of the Partiya Karkerên Kurdistan (Kurdistan Workers’ Party, PKK): Sozdar Avesta, member of the Presidential Council (made up of 6 people*) of the Koma Civakên Kurdistan (KCK) which includes, among others, the PKK and the YJA itself, has expressed a similar sentiment:
“Women must strengthen their self-defense and be more aware and organized.” Avesta, whose real name is Nuriye Kesbir (1948), joined the PKK in 1973 and has focused on defending the Kurdish Yezidi minority.
A man and a woman arrived in a yellow taxi and attacked the huge Military Airforce Production Complex that produces the drones massacring civilians in Rojava in Syria and Sinjar in Iraq, 5 people were killed. The two attackers were also killed .. A media circus ensuedover the ‘Horrific Terrorism’
Türkiye’s state controlled NTV claimed one of them detonated a bomb while the other entered the building.
TUSAS manufactures US F-16 fighter jets under license from General Dynamics as well as attack helicopters, and huge drone industry for the Turkish military and export.
Turkiye blamed the PKK Kurdish guerilla resistance and named the two fighters which appeared to derail the long awaited rapprochament with the heavily oppressed Kurds.
However it now appears that secret talks were already well under way, offering the legendary Ocalan parole after 25 years in isolation prison – in exchange for persuading the PKK leaders to “lay down their arms” and begin a new peace process.
Türkiyesays it yet again hit ‘Kurdish targets’ blaming the PKK , killing at least 12 in Syria, according to the Syrian Defence Forces (SDF) and more in Iraq in ongoing ‘revenge attacks’ for the attack on its Aerospace and Defense complex. Turkey, like Israel boasts continuing genocidal invasions, three in Syria, bombing Rojava and Northern Iraq.
The PKK did nor totally deny the attack which may therefore be the work of a disaffected splinter group unhappy with attempts to stop the war wen they have defeated Turkey’s latest offensive on their mountain hideouts in Iraq.
TUSAS, designs, manufactures and assembles civilian and military aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) and other defence industry and space systems with over 15,000 workers.
People inspect a site damaged by Turkish air strikes in Hasakeh province, Syria. Turkey has frequently hit northern regions of Syria and Iraq, targeting Kurdish groups [File: Baderkhan Ahmad/AP Photo]
Images, videos of Turkishrevenge bombing damage 24 October 2024 – 14:48 The Ministry of National Defence said 32 targets were “destroyed” in the aerial offensive on Wednesday, without providing details on the locations that were hit. It said “all kinds of precautions” were taken to prevent harm to civilians.
Message from Leader Abdullah Ocalan who may be released to begion Peace Process -“The Nelson Mandela” of Kurdistan
Omar Ocalan conveyed a message from leader Abdullah Ocalan, stating: The leader said that ‘if the conditions are right, I have the theoretical and practical power to move this process from a ground of conflict and violence to a legal and political ground.”
The PKK represents nearly 20 million unrecognized and heavily repressed Kurdish people in Türkiye, and many beyond, and Ocalan is widely hailed as their leader due to his practical revolutionary works, his transformation of the PKK from terrorism to horizontal democracy and feminism, and his successful organizing of two long ceasefires and the ‘Kurdish Spring’ (destroyed by Erdogan in 2015 with a military blitz when Kurdish reps threatened to hold the balance of power).
Two of the sources said that Ocalan had been allowed recently to speak directly to the PKK leadership that is based in the Qandil Mountains in Iraqi Kurdistan. “Ocalan told them it was time to discuss laying down their arms,” one of the sources said. https://t.co/lXHfiFp7WB
All they asked for was peace and horizontal democracy: This is what Erdogan did to Kurdish cities just over the border in Türkiyein 2015 as the west kept silent.
demonstration in a street of Kobani for the release of Apo, Abdullah ocalan, leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK).
Western mass media publishes Turkish SHOCK HORROR REVENGE stories on the attack on the War Weapons Center but never a word on the YEARS of constant Turkish state terrorist attacks on the Kurds, especially those in Nth Syria.
Erdogan ordered the years long shelling of infrastructure and Drone Murder Campaign in Nth Syria after International pressure to avoid a fourth illegal Invasion.
It remains to be seen whether a new Peace Process could include Rojava in NE Syria which is run by the multi-ethnic AANES and their ‘Kurdish-led SDF army. The many Kurdish organisations in Rojava deny direcy links toin the PKK but Turkiye and the west always claim they are the same thing, and they do all follow the revolutionary non-separatist of Ocalan.
Rohava is in a dangerous position as it gets protection from the USA since it became the proxy army which destroyed the ISIS HQ and controlled area and continues fighting ISIS resurgents and managing the huge Al Hol ISIS ptison camp.
AANES is attacked from all sides and are accused of being US proxies in their support for Israeli genocidal wars, although the small US force is against their ideology, has never intervened to defend them from Turkish massacres and invasions and are maintained more as an anti Irani base. The oil resources are small with no refinery.
The US has agreed in principle to finally close its neighbouring Iraqi bases, now also under attack from the Islamic Resistance militias, which would leave their few Syrian forces totally isolated. A US pullout could be the signal for Turkiye, and Syria to attack and carve up Rojava .
Russia cannot afford to block Turkiye`s imperialist ambitions and the Iranian regime is suppressinjg its own Kurdish minority and abhors the strong women’s freedom movement in Rojava
A woman protests the murder by Türkiye of five fighters from the Syrian Democratic Forcesin Rojava
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Here are just a few of HUNDREDS of suppressed reports on Turkish terrorist attacks that merit as much attention as the attack on Erdogan’s weapons center
The Turkish occupation expanded its shelling of cities in the region, as its drones targeted the electricity distribution station and its surroundings in the city of Amuda.
The General Command explained that the Turkish occupation targeted populated villages, service and vital facilities, and a number of security points using various weapons.
The General Command stated that the Turkish occupation targeted with 55 artillery shells and 11 mortar shells the countryside of Tal Tamr city in Jazera Canton, namely: “Tal al-Ward Gharbi, Khirbet al-Sha’ir, al-Rabi’at, al-Tawila, Tal Tawil, Kifji, Umm al-Kif”, and the villages of the Shahba regions “Umm al-Qura, Tanb, Tal Rifaat” where there are tens of thousands of refugees from Turkey’s ethnic cleansing with total impunity of Afrin..
It also targeted vital and service facilities in both the Jazera and Euphrates using drones and warplanes, as follows: “Amouda power station, grain silos in Qamishli – oil station in Kojarat – fuel transfer station (twice), al-Sa’ida oil station (3 times), Awda oil station (twice), Amuda city bakery – Kobani city bakery, Kobani power station (3 times), Rumelan oil station (10 times), 8 civilian facilities in Qamishli, Derik and Kobani)”.
The General Command confirmed that the drones targeted 4 checkpoints of their forces in the Euphrates Canton, and 6 checkpoints in Jazera Canton. As a result of the targeting, 25 people were injured and 12 lost their lives, including two children.
Continuing its assault on infrastructure in the Jazera Canton, the Turkish occupation also targeted oil and gas stations, as well as electricity conversion stations in the eastern countryside of the canton.
People inspect a site damaged by Turkish air strikes in Hasakeh province, Syria. Turkey has frequently hit northern regions of Syria and Iraq, targeting Kurdish groups [File: Baderkhan Ahmad/AP Photo]
The targeted stations and centers are: Suwaidiyah Station, the gas plant in Suwaidiyah Station, the oil collection and conversion station in Tufayla, Saeediyah Station, and Awda Station.
Turkish warplanes bombed the Saeeda oil station in the northern countryside of Tirbespiyê in the Jazera Canton, NE Syria.
The bombing caused significant material damage to the targeted stations, in addition to injuring a worker at the targeted gas plant, according to an initial toll.
The Turkish bombing on the villages of Samouqa, Tal Madiq, Tal Gigan and Shahba Dam resulted in the injury of 4 children, one of whom (Fares Ibrahim, 13 years old) later martyred from his injures.
ACTIVISTS SPEAK OUT– Abdullah Öcalan is still jailed because he is the Key to peace. He is uniquely trusted for his practical revolutionary ideas and for leading 2 long ceasefires with the endless Turkish repression.-
Afrin ”terrorist women” demonstrate for murdered sons and freedom of their leader Ocalan
Abdullah Öcalan is the political leader of the Kurdistan liberation movement and the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party), and launched the proposal of Democratic Confederalism that inspired the 2012 revolution in Rojava (western Kurdistan located in Syria) and the political model that has since been built with the Democratic Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria.
For many international activists, the ideas of Abdullah Öcalan and the Kurdistan liberation movement are a source of inspiration.
“It is the most alive revolutionary movement in the world at the moment, the most confrontational and the one with the most real power of change,” says Maddi.
Maddi came into contact with the Kurdistan liberation movement ten years ago in what she defines as “a change of political cycle” in Euskal Herria.
“It was not only the end of the armed struggle, but also the dismantling of an entire political movement that was articulated in society,” explains this young activist who, in search of new horizons, participated in a brigade that went from Euskal Herria to Rojava. Ana and Sílvia also share the experience of having been in Rojava where they went to learn about the role of women in the resistance against the Islamic State and the political paradigm and social model that made it possible.
Ona, who was also able to see it first hand, highlights how she was marked by learning about a “democracy that is not representative, but based on people taking responsibility for resolving their own basic needs and in which it is understood that without the liberation of women we cannot liberate the whole of society.”
For them, learning about this thought and this practice has meant a new way of understanding militancy as “a life choice, with more initiative and its own strength,” says Maddi.
“If you are looking for a path of determination in the struggle, without giving up, the Kurdish movement is an example,” adds Sílvia.
The July 19 Brigade is a project of international solidarity that we started a group of young social activists of Madrid. We are committed to the Kurdish cause and, in general, to the search for peace and social justice in the Middle East.
In their web page we can find an article on the peculiar situation of Makhmur, as well as a brief explanation of the project that they want to realize there:
“Once in Makhmur we will work hand in hand with organized civil society. We will provide support work in the refugee camp and carry out institutional work. We can see how the forms of popular organization work and experience democratic self-government in the first person.
The editor of the feminist news agency Ajansı Jin Haber, Zehra Dogan, and Mazlum Dogan, deputy adviser in Mardin for Democratic Peoples Party (HDP) Ali Atalan were arrested two days ago in Mardin. They were sitting in a cafe in that city of Turkish Kurdistan. Zehra and Mazlum were sent to Nusaybin…
Her work as a journalist as “evidence of crime”
Zehra’s journalistic activity has been considered by the Turkish authorities as proof of propaganda organization. Police have provided as evidence her reporting of the situation in Nisêbîn / Nusaybin, ( see Genocide in Europe: Nusaybin surrenders after 74 days ..in total ruins and deafening silence) social Facebook messages on the network, drawings and news testimonies.
Logically the feminist journalist denied all charges and said she belongs to the Turkish Journalists Union (TGS) and all the news reported is within the scope of journalistic activity.
Greetings on March 8 Womens day led them to prison
Meanwhile, Mazlum Dogan has been accused of attending activities with the Deputy Ali Atalan. Police criminalize his actions in the media around March 8th when he read the following textual statement:”Happy International Women’s Day happy all working women and women from insurgents Clara Rosa, Sakine Seve. Jin Jiyan Azadi” (Women, Life, Freedom). Such words, in the Kurdish language, are regarded as a crime.
Mazlum Dogan, and a photo of civilian victims of Erdogan’s continuing massacres of Kurds
(update insert: In recent days many thousands more people have been arrested, tortured, and killed or interned without trial under emergency powers taken by President Erdogan after an an army ‘attempted coup’.)
by Fazel Hawramy in Sulaymaniyah, Iraq.. shared with thanks
An American volunteer fighting alongside Kurdish forces in Syria has been killed during an ongoing offensive to recapture the town of Manbij from Islamic State militants.
This week in Europe – innocent children burned alive and blown to bits by our ‘friends and allies’ the Turkish State- NOTHING ABOUT IT IN MY NEWSPAPER. Over 100 civilians massacred after 3 weeks trapped in cellars- NOTHING ABOUT IT ON THE NEWS.
How is this possible? Is it because the US made an agrrement to let Turkey do what they like with the Kurdish people at home, etc? Is it because the EU were blackmailed to shut up as part of the deal to restrict refugees? Or because of the Turkish news blackout and jailings of curious journalists?
Whatever the reasons there’s no excuse for the media to shut up as Erdogan imposes the Nazi Solution in his megalomaniac quest for absolute `power.
Here to redress the balance a tiny bit, we re-publish summaries and links to many shocking posts appearing only in the Kurdish media.
Anna-Sara Malmgren questions silence on Turkey’s state terror
NEWS CENTER – Turkey’s human rights abuses in Kurdistan “should be enough to spark a worldwide outcry,” said Stanford University philosophy professor Anna Malmgren, among the authors of a recent petition calling on Barack Obama to take a public stand on the issue. “We want president Obama to speak out, loud and clear, against the atrocities that are being committed by the Turkish government in the southeast,” said Anna-Sara. She noted that media silence on what she described as “state terrorism” against Kurds prompted the petition.
“We were—and still are—frustrated at the general passivity and media silence here in the U.S. (and also in Europe) with respect to the Turkish governments’ actions,” said Anna-Sara…….”
NEWS CENTER- Janet Biehl is a political writer with a focus on libertarian municipalism and social ecology in USA. Janet is part of the February 14-16 Imrali delegation. She spoke to JINHA about the isolation of the PKK leader Abdullah Öcalan, current situation in North Kurdistan and the Geneva peace process. * On February 15, 1999, multiple state intelligence services cooperated to capture and jail Abdullah Öcalan. Since then, there has been a policy of isolation and communications blackout against Öcalan. […]
DİLOK- Antep women reacted to killing of people in ‘basements of savagery’. ” Our conscience and humanity were executed in Cizre, the people executed in Cizre’s basements, will live forever,” said Antep women. … 
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