Young women should increase the struggle against invasion attacks, say new guerrillas

A group of Northern and Eastern Syrian women who joined the PKK made a statement from the mountains of Kurdistan.

Stating that the Turkish state, which suffered a great defeat against the resistance of the YJA Star guerrillas, tried to counter attack with special war attacks such as rape, prostitution, kidnapping, harassment, rape and the disappearance of young women, the guerrilla candidates called on all young women to take responsibility and go to the mountains.

The statement said: “We, the young women of Northern and Eastern Syria, see the isolation imposed on our Leader Apo [Abdullah Öcalan] as being against all humanity. With the isolation they impose, they want to prevent the ideology of women’s liberation developed by our Leader. Of course, as they could not defeat the will of the Leader and the ideology he developed, they turned their attention to the Kurdish people in the four parts of Kurdistan and to the mountains of Kurdistan.

However, the YJA STAR turned every place into a field of struggle. The resistance of the guerrillas and the resistance of women who adopted Leader Apo’s philosophy defeated the enemy and its ruling mentality that could not reach its goals and objectives. During the Bazên Zagrosê and Cenga Xabur operations, YJA STAR guerrillas once again showed that the invaders cannot live in the Kurdistan region and mountains, and that they cannot impose their patriarchal mentality.”

The statement added: “Turkey wanted to overcome all these defeats with special war attacks such as rape, prostitution, kidnapping, harassment, rape and disappearance of young women. Again in South Kurdistan, as a result of the betrayal of some Kurds, the lives of young women were made dependent on capitalism and special war. What we have to do with these attacks is to take our leading role and respond to the process, turn our direction to the free mountains of Kurdistan and join the Werin Cenga Azadiyê, Dem dema Azadiyê campaign.

We promise to enlarge our struggle. Of course, all the young women of the world, especially the young women of Kurdistan, should take responsibility and see themselves in the historical victory of humanity and head towards the free mountains. It is time for the freedom of women, the Kurdish people and all humanity.”