Women from the Çınar district of Amed, condemning the attacks by the ISIS (Islamic State of Iraq and al Sham) gangs on Kobanê and AKP government's support to the ISIS gangs, closed the Amed-Mardin highway to traffic.

Women including the co-mayor of Çınar municipality, Rukiye Eryılmaz, environmentalists and women from the Çınar district protested the ISIS gang attacks on Kobanê by closing the road to traffic. The women assembled in front of the DBP town building before moving towards the Amed-Mardin highway. Opening a banner reading “from Zilans to Beritans, from Beritans to Viyans, from Viyans to Saras, from Saras to Arins who are writing an epic historic resistance in Kobanê”, women closed the Amed-Mardin highway to traffic by carrying out a sit-down protest.

Drivers also supported the protest by sounding their horns. The co-mayor of Çınar Municipality, Rukiye Eryılmaz, issued a statement on behalf of the protestors here, calling on the AKP government to end its support for the ISIS gangs and to open a corridor to Kobanê for humanitarian aid.

In response to Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan's question 'What is the relationship between Kobanê and Amed?', Eryılmaz said; “the women in Çınar are the same as the women in Sinjar and Kobanê”.

Eryılmaz added that Turkey had to review its attitude to the Kurds and Kobanê, saying: “AKP has to give up supporting the ISIS gangs. The Kurdish people and Kurdish women are never accepting and will never accept it. We will be taking to the streets against the policies of the AKP until Kobanê is liberated, until the day the AKP government gives up supporting the ISIS gangs.”