Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) MP Ceylan Akça spoke to ANF about Abdullah Öcalan’s latest call, emphasizing that the issue should be approached not from a local but from a universal perspective. Akça said a new order is being constructed and argued that this order is being shaped by “the darkest aspects of the male mind.”
Akça said: “When we say ‘male’ here, we are referring to a toxic, consuming and murderous male-dominated mentality.” She added that this mentality seeks to assign women a role similar to the practices of the Taliban in Afghanistan. Akça drew attention to attempts to establish a system in which women are defined solely through their reproductive capacity and reduced to commodities, stressing that women must not remain passive within such a framework but instead act as founding subjects.
Akça said: “Women must assume a role not as those who merely demand, but as those who directly build. They can stand against this dark order not by simply saying ‘we want,’ but by taking their place as the subjects who actually create.”
‘Women understand me’ emphasis
Akça recalled that Abdullah Öcalan pointed to a new model of life both in his 27 February statement and in his manifesto, saying that women are the pioneers of this model. She said: “Abdullah Öcalan states that women understand him, that they can see the new life model he envisions and that they have the power to build it. He assigns a major role to women and sees great hope in them.” She added that the call should be evaluated within this context.
Women are the foundation of democratic integration
Akça also addressed ongoing debates on democratic integration, saying the most fundamental issue is that women must be placed at the center of this process. She stated that women are among those most excluded from non-democratic systems and argued that the existing male-dominated judicial and political practices clearly demonstrate this reality.
She pointed to a decision by the Court of Cassation that considered a woman’s refusal to have sexual intercourse as “provocation.” She added: “This is the concrete reflection of the male mentality that says, ‘If I want it, it happens.’”
‘A revolution without women cannot be lasting’
Akça stressed that democratic integration does not mean being incorporated into the existing system but rather transforming it. She said that no peace or transformation process that excludes women can be lasting and noted that this has also been demonstrated by scientific and empirical data.
Akça said: “A revolution without a woman in it is not a revolution. A transformation without a woman in it cannot be a lasting transformation,” and added that for a genuine democratic transformation, women must be placed at the very heart of the process.
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