Kurdistan Women’s Communities (KJK) Coordination said: “The Kurdish people’s and women’s struggle for existence and status is being met with policies of denial, degeneration and destruction. We commemorate Xezal Mewlan, who lost her life as a result of the Iranian regime’s military attacks carried out on this basis, and extend our condolences to her family, the Komala organization and the Kurdish people. We condemn the attacks carried out by the Iranian regime against organizations that lead the Kurdish people’s struggle for existence, despite the fact that they are not involved in any armed action against the Iranian state. We call on the Iranian regime to recognize the status of the Kurdish people through the Alliance force, which represents the political will of the Kurdish people, and to engage in dialogue and negotiations for change on the basis of a democratic republic. We call on Kurdish women to embrace Xezal Mewlan and to expand their struggle as a value of national unity for freedom.”
KJK Coordination said: “The decay and exhaustion created by the policies of occupation and annihilation against the Kurds within the reality of dominant states and nations has now reached the level of a social collapse,” and stated the following: “The latest developments revealed in the case of missing Gülistan Doku have once again exposed that the special war system is implemented in Kurdistan through a network of civil authorities, security forces and collaborating local powers. Gülistan Doku was brutally killed and disappeared under the coordination of the governor. We will not forgive the special war of isolation and subjugation imposed on Kurdish women alongside heavy political and military attacks. It is known to the public that such cases are not isolated incidents but part of a deep special warfare organization. The N.Ç case is one of the most well-known among numerous cases of abuse of women, in which all perpetrators were public officials. While in the west, femicides and sexual crimes are covered up through relations of power and wealth, in Kurdistan the perpetrators consist of public officials such as governors, district governors, officers, police, teachers, village guards and local collaborators. Through networks of prostitution and drugs, tens of thousands of young people and women are entrapped. Murders and sexual assault cases that occur within this network are therefore concealed under the guise of state security.
The concealment of perpetrators in the recent murder of Rojin Kabaiş, the acquittal of the specialist sergeant in the Ipek Er case, and the ongoing obscurity in the Narin Güran case constitute a special policy. These cases have become uncontrollable and have therefore turned into iceberg cases that have entered public awareness. There are hundreds of similar cases of sexual assault and murder.
In this sense, we call on all our people and women’s organizations: The struggle must be intensified to follow these cases and ensure that those responsible are punished. However, the issue should not be addressed solely as local and individual cases. A struggle must be developed on the basis of exposing and dismantling the structures and practices of special warfare. Otherwise, this problem will continue in a sustained manner.
We call especially on youth and women: Do not establish relations with any forces, structures or their members other than those based on revolutionary, democratic and patriotic relations. This is the strongest form of self-defense. Protecting and embracing one’s society is the strongest self-defense. At the same time, it means practicing “Xwebûn (being oneself),” a fundamental principle of women’s freedom, as free women and men.
We call on everyone to join, with a spirit of mobilization, the struggle for social awareness, protection and defense against the attacks of the state, power and dominant men directed at our people and women.”
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