Ten thousand people gathered  in the Nusaybin district of Mardin on Saturday  for the mass demonstration organized by Democratic Society Congress (DTK) Woman's Council to protest against the embargo imposed on the people of Rojava, West Kurdistan.

Speaking here, DTK co-chair Aysel Tuğluk started her speech by remembering three Kurdish women killed in Paris on 9 January, Sakine Cansız, a co-founder of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), Fidan Doğan, representative of the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) in Paris, Leyla Şaylemez, member of the Kurdish youth movement.

“The murderers must know that these women's struggle will be followed by millions of women”, she underlined.

Tuğluk called attention to the importance of the Kurdish people's struggle and added; “Kurds are leading the democratic revolution in the Middle East. The people of Rojava have carried out a political revolution and practiced self-governance on the basis of the great struggle they have been giving for years now”. DTK co-chair saluted the women who - she underlined "have played a great role in the Kurdish revolution in Rojava and defeated the male-dominant system in the territory".

Tuğluk pointed out that the Turkish government has been following a policy hostile to Kurds and trying to prevent their achievements in Syrian Kurdistan. “The self-governance of Kurds in Rojava disturbs the Turkish government which has been therefore organizing and arming gang groups and sending them into a fight against the Kurds in West Kurdistan”, she added.

As a matter of fact, "the Turkish state has made a military intervention on Syria through indirect ways", underlined Tuğluk and called on the Turkish government to stop arming these gangs and to respect the self democratic power of the Syrian territory.

DTK co-chair ended her speech saying that; “The people of Rojava are not alone. Kurds in Kurdistan will defend them at any cost”.