Izmir Women's Platform made a press statement at the entrance of Konak Kemeraltı Bazaar to make a call on all women to attend the 1 May demonstration on Sunday.

Hülya Ulaşoğlu read the press text on behalf of İzmir Women's Platform and said that “women are not safe in their homes and workplaces. We will not talk about the violence, rape or even the harassment we have suffered. We will not talk about those who ordered the withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, this patriarchal system that protects murderers, not women. Women are resisting in Flormar, Indomie, Migros, Sinbo and Farplas. We want to talk about women's resistance all around the world, a world fight where women will be free and equal, free from exploitation, domination, male violence and wars. Aren't we the women who took to the streets against those who abolished the Istanbul Convention, aren't we women who broke through the barricades all over the world on March 8th?”

Organised struggle

Stating that the only way against this violent system is organized struggle, Ulaşoğlu said: “Women will be on the streets on 1 May, just as they filled the streets to protest every injustice and every unlawfulness. On 1 May, we will raise our resistance against hunger, unemployment, exploitation, war, massacres, looting of nature, harassment, rape, double labor exploitation. It will be a day when the resistance will go one step further, against those who ordered the withdrawal from the Istanbul Convention, against those who want to turn this country into a women's graveyard, against those who justify murderers and put women on trial."

Call to attend Workers day demonstration in Izmir

Inviting women to Gündoğdu Square on 1 May, Ulaşoğlu said: "We will be on the streets on 1 May to protect our identity, labor and body."