Kurdish women should organize against oppressive policies
Kurdish women should organize against oppressive policies
Peace and Democracy Party's (BDP) women branch says that Kurdish women should organize against oppressive policies by the Turkish state against Kurdish people.
BDP women branch held its first conference in Diyarbakir with participation of delegates from 45 cities in Turkey and Kurdistan. About two thousand women watched one of the biggest events of Kurdish women organizations.
Speaking on the conference BDP's co-president Gultan Kisanak said the only way to resist against oppressive policies is organizing women in every part of the country. She called the policies of the Turkish state “social genocide” in her speech.
She reminded the latest rape incidents in which most of the victims are Kurds in different parts of the country saying that rape crime now has a racist nature in Turkey.
The spokeswoman of BDP's women assembly Sukran Dikmen said that Kurdish women must participate more in politics. She called Kurdish women to seek for more dialogue with Turkish women organizations saying that the joint struggle would give greater results.
Former Democracy Party MP Leyla Zana also spoke at the event. She said that Kurdish women are leading the democracy and freedom struggle and they are not an instrument of somebody as Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan calls it.
She also called the Turkish government to take some positive steps to convince the Kurdistan Worker Party to extend the unilateral ceasefire which will expire today.
Zana asked Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan to show more efforts on bringing peace to the region and reconsider his decision to step back from the peace process after 31 October.
BDP women branch held its first conference in Diyarbakir with participation of delegates from 45 cities in Turkey and Kurdistan. About two thousand women watched one of the biggest events of Kurdish women organizations.
Speaking on the conference BDP's co-president Gultan Kisanak said the only way to resist against oppressive policies is organizing women in every part of the country. She called the policies of the Turkish state “social genocide” in her speech.
She reminded the latest rape incidents in which most of the victims are Kurds in different parts of the country saying that rape crime now has a racist nature in Turkey.
The spokeswoman of BDP's women assembly Sukran Dikmen said that Kurdish women must participate more in politics. She called Kurdish women to seek for more dialogue with Turkish women organizations saying that the joint struggle would give greater results.
Former Democracy Party MP Leyla Zana also spoke at the event. She said that Kurdish women are leading the democracy and freedom struggle and they are not an instrument of somebody as Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan calls it.
She also called the Turkish government to take some positive steps to convince the Kurdistan Worker Party to extend the unilateral ceasefire which will expire today.
Zana asked Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan to show more efforts on bringing peace to the region and reconsider his decision to step back from the peace process after 31 October.
