MLKP Communist Women Organisation (KKÖ) has issued a statement for internationalist fighter Ivana Hoffmann (Avaşin Tekoşin Güneş) who has lost her life in Rojava while fighting against the ISIS gangs in the ranks of defense forces.

The women organisation of MLKP said Hoffmann was an internationalist who defined herself as a Yazidi when Yazidi women were massacred, as an Alevi when it was a matter of attacks on Alevi faith, and a Kurd when the Kurdish people was the case in point.

The message said that Hoffman took part in the struggle against all kinds of oppression at a young age by feeling the pains of the oppressed people in herself, dedicating her intellectual capacities as well as her never-ending enthusiasm and cheeriness to the purpose of the struggle.

“She decided to fight for the freedom of Rojava as an answer to the call of her party, Kurdish people, women and her own heart. Taking the pain of the Kurdish people as her own, Ivana comrade had a clear purpose; she would first receive military training then take part in the front line of the battle to defend the Rojava Revolution”, said the message of MLKP Communist Women Organisation.

The statement said “A rebellious woman from Togo country of the Africa continent, Avaşin comrade always had a gleam of hope in her eyes for a world without borders and classes, adding that she had crossed the borders and came to Rojava to fight for a world without borders and exploitation believing in internationalist solidarity.

MLKP Communist Women Organisation stressed that Hoffman, conscious of gender conflict, also fought against the heterosexist approaches of the system that do not even deem the LGBT individuals worthy of the right to life.

The women comrades of Ivana also stressed that she valued women’s solidarity and sisterhood as a path to women’s liberation , and was a young communist woman always attaching importance to building friendships with women.

KKÖ also said Ivana was always open to learning new things, seeing it as a joy and proving that each moment of life is itself a learning process. The statement ended by saying that Ivana was carrying a virus of joy which she infected all the people around her with, as well as being a living example of the communist sense of justice.