The Kurdish Women’s National Unity Platform, consisting of 41 women’s organizations, parties, academics, and independent figures, held its first interim meeting on September 27, 2025, in the city of Sulaymaniyah in South Kurdistan.
The meeting comprehensively evaluated seven months of activities and political processes, and concluded with plans for the Kurdish Women’s National Congress.
The final declaration of the meeting said the following:
“Our meeting assessed that the process we are going through is of historic importance for the Kurdish people and Kurdish women, that democratic national unity has emerged as a fundamental task in this process of redesigning the world and our region, and that these tasks cannot be postponed.
The meeting identified as a major national danger the fact that the Kurdish people, who have demonstrated their power to prove and secure their existence through all forms of struggle, resistance, and war, have still not been able to manifest their power to achieve national unity. It noted that national fragmentation has led to the genocide of Kurdish women, their suffering from grave war crimes as a result of occupations, and the introduction of colonialist ideologies of slavery into Kurdistan, causing irreversible ecological destruction. Our meeting stressed that the freedom of Kurdish women in this sense passes through the anti-colonial struggle for national unity and that it is important to develop democratic national unity by realizing women’s freedom.
On this basis, our meeting positively assessed the implementation of the decision by the Kurdish Women’s National Unity Platform, established on April 5, 2025, to establish Kurdish Women’s National Unity Platforms and hold conferences in every part of Kurdistan and the Diaspora. The Kurdish Women’s National Unity Platforms in Northern Kurdistan and Rojava (Western) Kurdistan have held their conferences, while conference preparations are underway in Southern Kurdistan and Europe. In line with this development, it has planned to organize the Kurdish Women’s National Congress and the Kurdish Women’s Culture Festival in a different region of Kurdistan each year.
Accordingly, it has been decided that the Kurdish Women’s National Congress will be held in the city of Sulaymaniyah between December 2025 and January 2026. To this end, a Congress preparatory committee has been formed, and work has begun. It has been decided that the Congress, which will be held with 300-350 delegates, will proceed with preliminary work on the national unity agreement and organizational model, that the Congress preparatory committee will carry out the management duties of the Kurdish Women’s National Unity Platform during this period, and that the Kurdish Women’s National Unity Platforms will be responsible for the work of the Congress in the regions.
The decision to hold the Kurdish Women’s Culture Festival in Rojava and to initiate its activities was made official at our meeting. Our meeting welcomed the “March for Democratic Resolution” to be staged in Northern Kurdistan under the leadership of TJA (Free Women’s Movement) and called on all Kurds to unite in solidarity for a peaceful solution to the Kurdish question. Our meeting also assessed that the closure of the Semalka border crossing, which prevented Platform members from traveling to Southern Kurdistan, was an obstacle to national unity and called for an end to these misguided practices.”