Women

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• 72-year-old woman jailed in Mardin 

  An elderly Kurdish woman was imprisoned due to an approved prison sentence.
• Thousands join the Zilan Women’s Festival in Dortmund 

  Thousands of women joined the festival on the eve of the elections in Turkey.
• From the plains of al-Bab to the mountains of Kurdistan 

  Gülbahar is one of seven children of an Arab mother and a Kurdish father. From the northern Syrian plains of al-Bab she went to the mountains of Kurdistan.
• Four more women and girls kill themselves in Iran 

  Four women and girls have committed suicide in Iranian capital Tehran and the provinces of Shiraz, Rafsanjan and Ahwaz.
• Kurdistan women’s call against Turkish invasion 

  Women from three parts of Kurdistan condemned the Turkish state’s invasion attacks against Bashur and submitted a petition to the Kurdistani government and parliament. The women are calling on all to object to the invasion.
• Young Kurdish women go to Qandil to support Human Shields 

  The women oppose Turkey’s attempts to occupy South Kurdistan.
• Young women on their way to Qandil against the invasion 

  Members of Combative Young Women set out from 4 centers in Bashure (Southern) Kurdistan in the morning hours to visit the youth carrying out the human shield action in Qandil for the last 13 days against the Turkish state’s invasion attacks.
• Women’s workplace opens in Ayn Isa 

  The Rojava Revolution helped women reclaim their space and role.
• YPJ fighters: “We fight to liberate women” 

  YPJ fighters who participate in the Operation Cizire Storm against ISIS gangs say they fight for the freedom of all women, and Arab women in particular.
• Women’s Academy in Kobane: a project for women all over the world 

  Patrizia Fiocchetti and Carla Centioni were at opening ceremony of the Women’s Academy
• Women's Academy Silan opened in Kobane 

  An emotional ceremony to inaugurate the new Women's Academi in Kobane.
• Iranian human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh arrested 

  Well-known Iranian lawyer and human rights activist Nasrin Sotoudeh, who received the 2012 Sakharov Prize for Freedom of Thought, has been arrested.
• Syria Women’s Council opens office in Manbij 

  The decision is in line with the Congress decision to open offices all over Syria.
• Women from Afrin: We will resist until our home is liberated 

  Kongreya Star Afrin organization today declared through a press release in Fafin district of Shehba that the second phase of the campaign named “Women, rise up for Afrin” has come to an end.
• Jalaliyan: I will continue on my path 

  Imprisoned Kurdish woman Zeinab Jalaliyan wrote a letter on the Iranian state refusing her treatment and said, “On my own I am stronger than all of you. And I will continue on my path.
• Leyla Güven's election campaign in Amed prison 

  Journalist and painter Zehra Doğan has painted HDP MP candidate Leyla Güven during the election campaign in Amed Prison (Diyarbakir). The two women are in custody and are in the same cell.
• Jailed co-mayor of Amed, Kışanak sends a letter to women 

  We need to win this election to win our future, says jailed Amed co-mayor.
• Afrin women organise in Shehba 

  The women of Afrin are organising the resistance in the refugee camps in Shehba.
• Women from Qandil: We will not allow Turkish invasion 

  Women from Qandil voiced reactions against the attack threats against Qandil by Turkish President Erdoğan who promises nothing other than war.
• Biehl: Autobiography of Sakine Cansız is a historical document 

  Janet Biehl who recently presented in London volume 1 of the autobiography by Sakine Cansiz she translated, said: "She is potentially an eminent person in the history of the international left, in world revolutionary movements."
• Sakine Cansız Women’s Festival in Zurich 

  Resistance of women in Rojava commended and campaign for Afrin launched at the Kurdish women’s festival in Zurich.
• Kongreya Star calls on the UN to act for Afrin 

  Women are the most affected by the Turkish occupation of Afrin.
• Manbij Women’s Council: No to Turkish intervention 

  The women of Manbij reiterated they are against the Turkish state’s plans for their city.
• HDP candidate Tosun: I’ll be the voice of women of Sur 

  Remziye Tosun has been in prison with her baby girl during the curfew in Sur.
• Golshifteh Farahani: “Jin Jiyan Azadi is a hope” 

  Lead actress in the Girls of the Sun screened in the 71st Cannes Film Festival Golshifteh Farahani says the Kurdish women fighting ISIS are “The bravest women in the world.”