News Center- The Kurdistan Women’s Communities (Kurdish: Komalên Jinên Kurdistanê,KJK) has released a written statement, greeting all women, who took to the streets on International Women’s Day and held activities and events from mid-February to March 8.

“This year, we welcomed March 8 with the message of leader Apo (Abdullah Öcalan), a message like a manifesto for women’s freedom in the 21st century,” said the statement. “We salute leader Apo and his manifesto, turning this century into the Women's Renaissance.”

The statement continues as follows:

“Women, who heard this manifesto, took to the streets in Bakur, Türkiye, North and East Syria, Rojava, Shengal, Makhmour, Rojhelat, Bashur and European countries on March 8 and demonstrated their determination to lead the ‘Peace and Democratic Society’ process. Women from different colors, languages ​​and cultures came together in Türkiye, Syria and many European countries, and held a magnificent celebration of democracy. Almost everywhere in the world, women raised their voices against the attacks of the patriarchal mindset on women and children. As KJK, we greet all women, who took to the streets on International Women’s Day and held activities and events from mid-February to March 8.

The women’s struggle has the power to shake our daily lives, our century, and the world. On March 8, we saw how the unity of women is strong by crossing all borders. Today, women rise up against the patriarchal mindset, organize themselves and raise their voices saying what kind of life they want.

Living every day as March 8

As women, we must struggle and live every day as it is March 8. We also must discuss the Manifesto for Women’s Freedom by leader Apo, who gives breath and strength to women despite the isolation imposed on him in Imrali. We have a responsibility to discuss, try to understand, and derive tasks for new struggles and organizations from this perspective by holding various events, training, meetings and workshops.

‘We raise our hopes for the future’

Women, who value their lives, their freedom, themselves and others, will save, liberate, enlighten and beautify the world. The four-layered Women's Liberation Ideology and four daffodil branches that reached us from leader Apo in İmralı were a very precious and beautiful gift. We can turn our lives and women, children, young girls into daffodils, springs, and gardens.

We call on all women to turn Newroz into a festival of struggle and people by building a bridge between March 8 and March 21.”