Syrian Democratic Council (MSD or SDC) media announced that the Women’s Office of the MSD held a dialogue workshop entitled: “The absence of the role of humanitarian organizations in occupation of Afrin” in Fafin district, Al-Shahba (Shehba) area.

The workshop was attended by members of women’s institutions and activities in Afrin and Al-Shahba, as well as Afrin women who had a bitter experience as a result of occupation of their region by Turkish state and its mercenaries.

The workshop consisted of three parts, with the first part including international silence and humanitarian organizations in the face of the violations committed by Turkish occupation state and its mercenaries, which are still continuing against people of Afrin.

Discussions also included the issue of women and their suffering during Syrian crisis, searching for reasons to put forward positive solutions to that suffering, looking at them in a comprehensive national framework and building towards ending the crisis in addition to the suffering that women had been subjected to in Afrin, which was more severe than all Syrian women, as they were exposed to all forms of violence.

Zainab Qanbar, the administrator in the women’s office, talked about woman’s role in Afrin during Turkish occupation in all fields, especially their role in political life. According to Qanbar, this made them targeted by Turkish occupation state and its terrorist factions.

The workshop also included the Resistance of the Age by Afrin women in their first and second stages, in which they proved their resistance to Turkish occupation and its mercenaries. Qanbar mentioned the role of women who had a clear imprint in defending the city of Afrin, its people and how this participation strengthened the role of women later in various stages of resistance.

The participants stressed the need to strengthen the role of women in all political, military and administrative fields and to work together in a row until liberating all Syrian lands from all occupations and reaching a pluralistic, democratic and decentralized Syria.