The Kurdistan Women’s Community (KJK) Coordination issued a written statement regarding the KDP embargo imposed on Martyr Rüstem camp.

The KJK said: “Although Maxmur Camp, known as Martyr Rüstem Camp, has been experiencing serious difficulties for more than 20 years, it has always resisted and has managed to maintain a public reality that sets an example for all Kurdistan. Our people in Maxmur have never accepted the policies of surrender, village guards, leading to betrayal and collaborators, which the Turkish state has tried to develop in North Kurdistan after 1990. The people of Maxmur have not only devoted themselves to President Apo [Abdullah Ocalan] and patriotic values, but also protected and represented Kurdishness in all its aspects as well as Kurdish and human values. There are hundreds of martyrs in the path of resistance against the fascist Turkish state, which wants to destroy the Kurdish people altogether.”

The statement added: "The embargo imposed on July 2019 using as a pretext the murder of a MIT agent in Hewler, has meant the isolation of the camp for over a year. This KDP policy is by no means acceptable in humanitarian, conscientious and moral terms. Kurds cannot impose an embargo or ban against other Kurds. The embargo imposed on our people of Maxmur is unacceptable in such a process when Turkey is invading Kurdish lands in Heftanin and Kurdish national unity efforts are being made to counter the genocide policies targeting our people in North Kurdistan. This is also a great crime against humanity. The people of Maxmur have been kept in a very unjust and unjustified punishment system for more than a year. This situation is not something that can be accepted in the name of humanity.”

The statement continued: “We salute with love and respect the resistance, patriotic stance and sincerity of the Kurdish women in Maxmur, who resisted against all special war policies and invasion attacks carried out by the Republic of Turkey.

The KDP should definitely lift the embargo against the people of Maxmur.

We call on all political parties in South Kurdistan, the Kurdistan parliament, and all Kurdish women to mobilize to ensure the end of the embargo and isolation of the people of Maxmur.”