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(DİHA) – Today in the border city of Nusaybin, signs and banners in Kurdish,
Turkish, Syriac and Arabic adorned the front of a crowd of women as the World
March of Women's fourth international action got underway. Different languages,
cultures and religions have danced halays (Kurdish fold dance) hand in hand in
Nusaybin.
The World March of Women held its first international action in 2000. Now, they
aim with this action to bring women together under the goals of women's
solidarity and destroying nation-state borders.The women are beginning their
action in Nusaybin, across the border from Rojava, to draw attention to the
women's revolution taking place there. Women will march from Nusaybin across
Kurdistan, Turkey and Greece.
Sisterhood of languages
The
March began in the early hours of the morning today, with women pouring into
the region from Germany, Serbia, Portugal, Greece, France, Spain, Afghanistan,
Argentina, Lebanon, Catalonia, England and Basque Country—not to mention every
part of Turkey and Kurdistan. Marching women took to the streets of the city,
bearing signs in multiple languages declaring "we will march until all
women are free" and "let's organize like the women in Kobanê to
liberate our lives."
Kobanê resistance marks
Women
of the city gathered in their colorful regional clothes outside the Mitanni
Culture Center, dancing traditional Kurdish dances and greeting the incoming
guests with cries of "jin, jiyan, azadî" (woman, life, freedom) and
"long live the Kobanê resistance." They also distributed free copies
of the Kurdish-language newspaper Azadiya Welat, as well as daily newspaper
Özgür Gündem, to all.
Female pioneers in Nusaybin
The
Culture Center, run with the support of the Nusaybin municipal government, was
bedecked with portraits of women leaders, especially from Kurdistan and Turkey
like one of the PKK's founders Sakine Cansız and Fidan Doğan, Leyla Şeylamez,
journalist Deniz Fırat, Gurbetelli Ersöz, Arin Mirxan, Sibel Bulut, Clara
Zetkin, Leyla Qasim, Kader Ortakkaya, Çiçek Botan, Zeynep Kınacı, Sema Yüce,
Mirabel sisters, Gülnaz Karataş, Rehşan Demirel, Ekin Ceren Doğruak, Delila,
Viyan Soran, Gurbet Aydın, Şirin Elemhuyi and Evrim Demir.
YPJ and Congress of Free Women (KJA) flags hung from the building. The Culture
Center hosted two simultaneous panels: one on the topic of "Democratic
Confederalism and the Rojava Revolution under the Leadership of Women" and
another on "Ecology and the Exploitation of Nature." A painting exhibition
of women in resistance was organized in the culture center's garden. Women had
set up a bazaar of Armenian, Kurdish and Arab jewelry. Proceeds will go to
Kobanê solidarity.