The Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) General Command issued a statement about the process in Syria and the current policies that are being developed.

The statement said: "The Baath regime, which could not respond to any of the social demands in Syria, collapsed and a complex process with many difficulties continues.

If the sensitivity of long-term negotiations aimed at nation-building is not demonstrated in this historical process that the world and especially the Middle East are going through, these negotiations will lose both their credibility and legitimacy."

The statement added: "In this context, on 29 January, behind closed doors in Damascus, the fate of an entire region was decided by armed groups. The leader of the Ahrar al-Sharqiya gang, Hatim Abu Shakra, who is the murderer of the Secretary General of Syria's Future Party, Hevrin Khalaf, not only attended this conference, but was also given a charge. This situation shows that the new Damascus government denies the struggle of Kurdish women, which the whole world recognizes. Even worse, it showed that there is no place for women, and in particular Kurdish women, in the new Syria. Therefore, every decision made by congresses and conferences that does not include women and the people are illegitimate. The YPJ does not see or accept such conferences and decisions as legitimate. The SDF-YPG freedom fighters led by the YPJ, have been waging a strong struggle against ISIS, which the AKP calls good children and families, for the last 14 years to protect our people and humanity. In many European countries and most recently in the United States, the attacks by jihadist gangs that humanity has faced have been stopped and limited thanks to this resistance we have raised."

The statement continued: "The jihadist mentality and its representatives are trying to establish a state through old gangs in disguise. This situation is unacceptable to us. These jihadist forces are attacking the people of Northern and Eastern Syria under new guises and with new names, and today a state is being tried to be established through them. They may look different with these suits and ties, but we cannot ignore the reality of these murderers who have taken the blood of thousands of people, committed massacres, beheaded people, dismembered women's bodies."

The statement said: "These murderers must be brought to justice immediately and given the punishment they deserve. The fascist AKP President Erdoğan, who trained, used and tried them, must also be tried in the High Criminal Court. This is the moral duty of every individual, every institution and organization, and most importantly, all women in the world who struggle for humanity and democracy.

When women were massacred in this land, social destruction also began. Therefore, the New Syria will be built not by murderers of women, but by women who love freedom."