The Free Women’s Movement (Tevgera Jinên Azad-TJA) gathered at the Democratic Regions Party (DBP) Amed Provincial Organization on Saturday to discuss the difficulties experienced in the past two years. The meeting ended with a call to everyone to attend the “Freedom Rally” to be held in Amed on 13 October.

Adalet Kaya, Amed MP for the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM), said that they discussed the problems experienced and the deficiencies in organization. Addressing all women’s movements in Amed, Kaya said: “In the territory we live in, we are faced with a central administration that does not recognize its own constitution and increasingly escalates war policies. Poverty, deprivation, femicides, child abuse and all the social problems we experience are connected to the war being waged in the country. We must raise our voices and reject war and isolation at the rally we will hold in Amed on 13 October. We must defend honorable peace against war and freedom against conspiracies in Amed. We must also call for the freedom of Mr. Abdullah Öcalan and protest isolation. Because the freedom of Mr. Abdullah Öcalan means the solution tothe Kurdish question.”

TJA activist Havva Can said: “The entire Kurdish people are under isolation in the person of Mr. Abdullah Öcalan. In order to break this isolation, we as Kurdish women, will be on the streets on 13 October.”

TJA activist Adle Fidan said: “We call on everyone to raise their voices from Amed on 13 October with the philosophy of Jin jiyan azadî.”