The 6th Fidan Doğan (Rojbîn) Women's Festival took place in Paris on Sunday. The festival dedicated to the Kurdish women murdered in Paris conveyed as its central message: "Our revenge is the women's revolution, Jin Jiyan Azadî!"
The 6th Fidan Doğan (Rojbîn) Women's Festival took place in Paris on Sunday. The event is one of the festivals that the Kurdish Women's Movement in Europe (TJK-E) organises every summer in different countries. The festival in Paris is named after Fidan Doğan (Rojbîn), who was assassinated by the Turkish secret service on 9 January 2013 together with Sakine Cansız (Sara) and Leyla Şaylemez (Ronahî). No one has been punished for the assassination until today.
The Kurdish women's movement dedicates this year's festivals to the memory of the Kurdish woman Evîn Goyî (Emine Kara), who was murdered in Paris on 23 December 2022, including the Zîlan Women's Festival held in Gelsenkirchen on Saturday and the upcoming Sakine Cansız Women's Festival to take place in Zurich on 25 June.
The venue for the festival in Paris was Stalingrad Square. The stage programme featured musicians from all parts of Kurdistan, as well as Kurdish and Tamil dance performances. In a tent, women performed traditional singing as Dengbêj (bards) and handicrafts. Children could participate in rhythm and painting workshops. There were also information and food stalls. The central messages of the festival were "Our revenge is the women's revolution" and "Jin Jiyan Azadî".
