The KCK Executive Council Co-Presidency has issued a statement to mark the occasion of 25 November, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, stressing the leading role played by Kurdish women in Sinjar, in Rojava-Kobanê and in all four parts of Kurdistan against the enemies of women and reactionary forces.

The KCK statement read:"Violence against women, who created the first social culture of humanity, is violence against society and the whole of humanity. Domination of women is the source of all hegemony. The freedom of society will come about through the freedom of women. Humanity will only achieve true freedom by struggling against violence against women." The KCK Executive Council Co-Presidency added that the first social problems had emerged on account of domination of and violence against women.

Kurdish women are struggling against all forms of reaction

The KCK statement continued, emphasising that Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan had realised at a young age that oppression of women was unacceptable and taken a stand against it. The statement noted that this reality was later a factor in the development of the women's freedom line. "Today Kurdish women in Sinjar, in Rojava-Kobanê and in all four parts of Kurdistan are leading the struggle against the enemies of women and reactionary forces in order to eliminate all kinds of oppression and persecution. Those heroic women comrades Zîlan, Şîlan, Bêritan, Sara, Nuda, Wiyan, Şîrin Elemhuli and Arîn have opposed the enslavement of all humanity and paved the way towards freedom for women," the statement continued.

The KCK Executive Council Co-Presidency concluded the statement by calling on men to question and overcome their dominant male mentality on the occasion of 25 November, International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women, and take their place in the struggle for freedom.