July 22, Jiyan Tolhildan, YPJ & YAT commander, spoke in the forum on 10 years women's revolution in Rojava, on self-defense. On the same day, Turkey targeted her with a drone strike.
#NoFlyZone4Rojava
Watch the full speech in English on Youtube:
A Turkish sergeant major tried to abuse a 13-year-old girl!
In Şirnex (Northern Kurdistan/Turkey) last night, the Sergeant Major A.A. was caught by citizens who heard the screams of the child while attempting a sexual assault.
Turkey attacks women in particular because it knows that the Women's Movement represents its greatest threat. The most opposed to the fascism of the Turkish state are the women who, fighting together, become the greatest life and freedom.
Jin, jiyan, azadi!
#SiyasiTutsaklaraSesOl
There are two rivers. Two worlds. One is life, freedom, the women's revolution. The other is that of fascism and death, that of the Turkish state. Let's defend the revolution, let's put an end to fascism.
#RiseUp4Revolution
#SanctionTurkey
#WomenDefendRojava
Turkey it's occupying the territory of NE Syria, where a democratic, ecological self-government based on women's freedom and the common and peaceful life of the peoples is being developed. With its brutal occupation, Turkey is attacking humanity values.
#BoycottWar
#BoycottTurkey
The memorial for David Graeber was a beautiful event attended by people from all over Rojava, who honoured him with music, dancing, videos, and loving words for a true friend of the revolution. Revolutionaries never die!
Jiyan Tolhildan, Roj Xabûr & Barîn Botan were pioneers of the women's revolution, liberated NES & therefore the world from ISIS. Turkey targeted them yesterday with a drone strike.
We demand:
#NoFlyZone4Rojava
Join the # action now!
When Raqqa was liberated from IS, YPJ said: "We dedicate the liberation of Raqqa to all the women of the world”
Women used to be sold in the markets of Raqqa under IS rule, now women are co-chairs in the Autonomous Administration helping bring back equality and freedom for women
#EsLey
From Kongra Star, the umbrella organization of women from North East Syria, we want to congratulate our Argentinean comrades, who after years of struggle have seen their efforts materialize in the regulation of abortion.
#AbortoLibre2020
Kongra Star sends a message of solidarity from
#Rojava
to the women's resistance in
#Afghanistan
.
"An attack on a woman, whether in Afghanistan or anywhere else, is an attack on all women, so their struggle is our struggle"
In the first three days of the massacre alone, 1293
#Yazidis
were murdered. More than 360,000 Yazidis were forced to flee. About 7000 were kidnapped and about 3000 of them have disappeared until today. Resistance of the Yazidi will continue until all remaining captives are freed.
David Graeber was truly a friend of the women's struggle and the revolution in Rojava. The world has lost his presence, but his light lives on in every person who struggles for freedom. Rest in peace, comrade
#davidgraeber
In East
#Kurdistan
-
#Iran
mass protests against Iranian dictatorship. Men and women united for freedom after the murder of
#JinaMahsaAmini
by the police.
Today is the 4th anniversary of the creation of the
#YPJ
. The women fighters of
#YPJ
are an example of dignity and commitment for the whole world in the fight against fascism. With the memory of our șehîds, we will continue the struggle for women's freedom!
#FreeOcalanFreeThemAll
YPJ press announces the martyrdom of 3 YPJ members & commanders: Jiyan Tohildan, Roj Xabûr and Barîn Botan. They were martyred due to the Turkish drone strike near Qamishlo yesterday. Just as the women's revolution in North and East Syria celebrates its 10th anniversary.
Thousands of women of
#Bengaluru
, India, have taken to the streets in an indefinite strike for fair wages.
#WomenDefendRojava
stands with our sisters and comrades in India.
#Turkey
is carrying out a targeted
#femicide
in Kurdistan.
#HevrinXelef
, a politician was brutally murdered by Turkey in October 2019 and today a women's activist
#ZehraBerkel
and further women were killed. This is no random act, this is a targeted attack on female civilians.
With the slogan "I want a bycicle", journalists in Qamislo launched an initiative to empower and encourage women to use bicycles while contributing to the struggle against environmental pollution.
Young women in particular are showing a keen interest.
#WomenDefendRojava
Today in
#Kobane
, the women & people join hands & stand together for the anniversary of the liberation of their city. Kobane was defended once, and the people will stand and fight in the face of any new threat.
#WomenDefendRojava
In yesterday's attack on the Kurdish Cultural Center in Paris, Emine Kara, nom de guerre
#EvinGoyi
, a leading figure of the Kurdish women's liberation movement was martyred She is one of the women who created the slogan Jin Jiyan Azai with her struggle & her life.
#JeSuisKurde
Tomorrow, marks the 8th
#WorldKobaneDay
.
On that day, millions of people all over the world took to the streets in solidarity with the resistance in Kobane against IS.
this resistance defended humanity from IS. Defending Kobane now means defending women's revolution in Rojava.
The current imperialist attack on the Kurdish freedom movement is one expression of a long history of repression. The lies of the Turkish state cannot hide that.
#WomenDefendRojava
#RiseUp4Rojava
Turkey’s illegal war on Northeast Syria is also a war on women’s freedom. Occupation forces are targeting women and filming their crimes to attack the advancements of the women’s revolution.
Today, July 19, we remember and celebrate the Spanish, Nicaraguan and Rojava Revolution. In all of them, the role of women has been and is essential. In all aspects, also in defence. To defend women's freedom is to defend our land and our right to self-defence.
#RiseUp4Revolution
Sabina Orellana, a native of the women and farmers movement in
#Bolivia
, was appointed as the "Minister of Cultures, Decolonization and the Elimination of Male Sovereignty". This ministry is the first in the country and in the world.
Bolivia, we salute you and your struggle!
After a military coupe, the people of Bolivia are facing a huge repression but also giving a historic resistance. Kongra Star sends revolutionary love and solidarity to the indigenous women and people of Bolivia in their struggle against oppression and fascism.
#WomenDefendRojava
Turkey is waging war all across Kurdistan, attempting to annihilate the Kurdish people. Besides countless attacks on civilians & democratic forces, there is no reaction of international forces towards the war.
@UN
@UNHumanRights
@antonioguterres
@IraqiGovt
@UNIraq
(THREAD)
Our solidarity with Maria Edgarda Marcucci! She joined
#YPJ
fighting for women's liberation against
#ISIS
and now Italian state punished her considerating her "socially dangerous". The states will never end with a woman's free will!
Read more here 👇
SDF announced that SDF commander and YPJ member Sîham Mislim (Mizgîn Kobanê) fell martyr as a result of a Turkish drone strike in Raqqa yesterday. When the revolution in Rojava started, she joined & defended the women's revolution for example in the resistance in Aleppo (Haleb).
Today marks the 5th anniversary of the death of Ivanna Hoffman, who died fighting alongside YPG/YPJ forces against ISIS in Syria.
Ivanna Hoffman, born in Germany, was the first internationalist women to be killed in the fight against ISIS.
Şehid Namirin!
#WomenDefendRojava
Turkey's aggression against people of Rojava have intensified tonight.
📌 Turkey has just launched a new wave of attacks on
#Rojava
/ North Syria using warplanes &drones.
📌Oil wells, grain stores, infrastructure etc. have been destroyed to force people to starve & migrate.
Today is the birthday of Ivana Hoffman. As an internationalist she has decided to support the revolution in Rojava & fight for a solidary society. As member of MLKP she fought alongside the YPG & YPJ against ISIS. 2015, she fall in battle against ISIS in
#Rojava
.
Şehîd namirin!🌹
#AutonomousAdministration
of North&East
#Syria
need to be officially recognized.
Revolution of
#Rojava
, which began on July 19, 2012, has become a spark of hope for humanity.
We invite you all to join
#hashtag
campaign on July 18, 2021 at 19.00 CEST, for the recognition of AA.
As women of Western Kurdistan who struggle, write this statement in response to the call of our indigenous sisters & brothers in Mexico in face of the attacks that indigenous communities are receiving from paramilitary groups...
With the slogan
#JinJiyanAzadi
'Woman! Life! Freedom!' during protests in
#Iran
against the regime, the people make clear that a women's revolution like the one in
#Rojava
is also needed in
#Rojhilat
.
Without the freedom of women, a society cannot be free.
#MahsaAmini
PKK is a liberation movement that has given hope & courage not only to Kurdish people & all oppressed peoples but especially to women to struggle for a free life. Jin Jiyan Azadi, was inspired by PKK & Abdullah Ocalan. The PKK must be removed from the terror list.
#DelistPKKnow
Turkish coast guards attempt to sink boats full of civilians in the EU pays for this, in full knowledge of what it means. While the likes of the EU and
@NATO
need Turkey for their dirty work, they will never stop their massacres.
From
#Armenia
women send greetings to the resistance of the people & women against repression in
#Rojhilat
&
#Iran
.
Be it Armenia, Rojhilat or anywhere else in the world women must unite against repression.✊
#JinaAmini
#JinJiyanAzadi
Indigenous Quechua Women's Feminist collective sent a message of love, hope, & strength from their sacred forest in Otavalo, Ecuador.
"Your fight is for life. You are defending mother earth for all humanity. We are with you!"
#WomenDefendRojava
Bethnahrin Women Protection Forces
@HSNB_
:
“We will not let jihadists occupy our land & massacre & rape Assyrian, Arabic Armenian, Kurdish & Syriac Women. We will resist & women worldwide must stand up to attacks & occupation of the Turkish army in
#Syria
”
#WomenDefendRojava
Ivana Hoffman, Lêgêrîn Çiya, Andrea Wolf, Ceren Güneș and Anna Campbell.
Five internationalist women who gave their lives for the defence of the Revolution against the attacks of fascism.
#WomenDefendRojava
#WeWillDefendWomenAndLife
#8M2021
#Zapatista
&
#Kurdish
women's meeting in Frankfurt
Zapatista delegates of the
#JourneyforLife
have met in Frankfurt for an exchange on possibilities of a common struggle with activists of the Kurdish Women's Council Amara & the campaign
#WomenDefendRojava
Tomorrow is the birthday of Abdullah Ocalan, who with the idea of Democratic Confederalism has created an alternative to capitalist modernity and patriarchal oppression. This is the basis of the women's revolution in Rojava.
That's why today, we say:
#Rojb
ûnaMePîrozBe
#Turkish
warplanes have bombed
#Shengal
again. A hospital was bombed three times, also when trying to get the injured out of the building. There are dead and injured.
#TurkeyAttacksYazidis
Today is 2 years since international
#YPJ
fighter Anna Campbell (Hêlîn Qereçox) fell in a Turkish airstrike during the occupation war on
#Afrin
. Anna has become a symbol of women's revolution & internationalism across the world. She is also deeply missed everywhere she was known.
The mother of Şehîd Legerîn of
#Argentina
makes a call for immediate action to stop the
#Turkish
invasion. As we send this video thousands of wounded are treated at the Şehîd Legerîn Hospital in Til Temer.
#WomenDefendRojava
#RiseUp4Rojava
Mother of Hevrin Xelef, the Kurdish politician who was brutally killed by
#Turkey
backed jihadists, to
@UN
: “Where are you? Why are closing your eyes to the crimes of
#Erdogan
? Why are you supporting his murder of women and children?”
#WomenDefendRojava
On this day in 2015, the Kurdish city of
#Kobane
was liberated from the reign of the Islamic State by the hands of our resistance fighters and allies. We remember today as a day of courage and celebrate today as a day of hope.
In
#Koban
ê, the place where the women's revolution in Rojava has started, women have shown solidarity with the struggle of women in
#Rojhilat
&
#Iran
.
Here, too, women cut their hair, took off their headscarves and burned them in protest.
#JinJiyanAzadi
#JinaMahsaAmini
#MayDay
was celebrated throughout North&East Syria.
We hope that this year's May Day will be a day of liberation, where we free ourselves from authoritarian mentality& wage a general struggle to build a free, diverse and decentralized Syria where all are equal before the law.
A Women Defend Rojava committee has been established in Iruña (Pamplona) in the Basque Country.
We send you solidarity greetings!
#womendefendrojava
#riseup4rojava
Five martyrs of the resistance to defend
#Rojava
against
#Turkish
occupation have been honoured in
#Qamishlo
, today.
Thousands gathered to say farewell and promised to continue their struggle for a life in freedom & dignity.
Şehîd Namirin!
#WomenDefendRojava
#riseup4rojava
This is what
#Erdogan
's two-faced
#Turkey
looks like: Not so long ago, Turkey harshly criticized
#Israel
for its airstrikes on infrastructure in
#Gaza
. Now fascist Turkey is attacking civilian infrastructure in northern
#Syria
.
Turkey's aggression against people of Rojava have intensified tonight.
📌 Turkey has just launched a new wave of attacks on
#Rojava
/ North Syria using warplanes &drones.
📌Oil wells, grain stores, infrastructure etc. have been destroyed to force people to starve & migrate.
General Command of
#YPG
&
#YPJ
send a message of
#Solidarity
to the revolution in
#Myanmar
against the ruling regime in the country.
The whole statement:
An internationalist woman from Turkey has lost her life in the resistance on the frontline near
#TilTemer
. She was full of life and love, always smiling and giving energy to her comrades. Her struggle will carry on with this spirit.
In Jinwar, the women's village in
#Rojava
, the life continues growing. In the basis of a communal organisation without patriarchy we build up the women's freedom in deep connection with the roots of the land.
#OrganisedAgainstFemicide
#WomenDefendRojava
Saleh Muslim: Our people didn't want the war but they forced us. We welcome the cease fire but we will defend ourselves in case of attack. Cease fire in one thing, surrender is another. We will not accept the occupation on NE-Syria, we will check Pence-Erdogan's agreement.
Abdullah Öcalan is in
#Imrali
prison since 1999. 21 uears of isolation for defending Kurdish rights and a free life for all humanity. His ideas are free and inspire struggles for people's freedom around the world. We want
#FreedomForOcalan
!
#Muhatap
Öcalan
The Zapatista movement calls for a week of global action: "With pain and rage, we see that inevitable death imposes itself on life. Facing
#COVID19
and the death imposed by the capitalist system, it has become clear worldwide:we have only one path: to fight for life and humanity"
Today the fascist Turkish state has been attacking the town of
#Derik
.
A drone strike on a house in Derik martyred Muhammad Shibli, a coordinator of SDF & US-led Global Coalition in fight against ISIS, & injured a woman, Avin Khalil (39), & a child named Ahmad Shahin (11).
Today in
#Qamishlo
, the 8 civilians who martyrd yesterday in the bombing by the fascist Turkish
were buried by thousands of people in a ceremony.
#StopTurkishTerrorism
#ŞehidNamirin
In yesterday's airstrikes in Tel Tamer by fascist
#Turkey
, our comrade the
#ypj
commander Sosin Efrin was martyred.
She said "We are fighting a system not a state... We are fighting to liberate the society," and she lived by that.
Shirin Alam Holi already wrote “
#JinJiyanAzad
î” on the wall of her cell in Evin Prison before she was executed on May 9, 2010 along with 3 comrades. With the spirit of resistance of Shirin & her comrades, a revolution was started under leadership of women & has not stopped since.
Tomorrow marks the 11th anniversary of the women's revolution in North and East Syria/Rojava.
One of the achievements of this revolution, in which women are at the forefront, is the establishment of the Autonomous Administration of North & East Syria.
#Status4NorthAndEastSyria
6 years ago, 62 people were martyred due to a massacre by ISIS in Qamishli, Rojava. Until 2019 Baghuz fell& the defeat of ISIS was announced, the people of NES gave great sacrifices to defeat ISIS& liberate the world from its threat. Today, Turkey threatens exactly those people.
#WorldKobaneDay
Today we salute the memory of Kobane's resistance and all the fighters who gave their lives to the last breath. The enemy wanted to see us fall, but we fought and won. The future of these lands and of the whole world will be a democratic and free women future.
Health workers in a
#Rojava
field hospital, facing the humanitarian crisis of the Turkish state's occupation war, made a solidarity video for the people's struggle in
#Chile
.
#WomenDefendRojava
The 21st century will be the of women's liberation!
We see, whether in
#Rojhilat
,
#Iran
,
#Afghanistan
,
#Balochistan
or elsewhere, women as vanguard determine the colors of resistance, set a sign with their courage, their anger & their creativity & carry the population along.
"Hundreds of indigenous women of
#Bolivia
are mobilising in La Paz to protests the new goverment." Everywhere women are at the front of struggles for land and dignity and against oppressiomln.
Its not me, or my clothes... the rapist is you: the state, the judges, the police!
Solidarity with feminists in Chile and the world over!
#WomenDefendRojava
Today would be the 30th birthday of Anna (Hêlîn Qereçox).
She fell in Afrin in 2018 while defending the revolution in Rojava. She sacrificed her life for a free life for all people. Because of this, she has become immortal & lives on in our struggle.
#AnnaCampbellIsImmortal
Action yesterday at the University of Brussels. The YPJ flag is for everyone across the world - it stands not just for solidarity with the
#Rojava
revolution, but for freedom, gender liberation, and people's self defence.
#WomenDefendRojava
#RiseUp4Rojava
The fallen fighter Ceren Güneş (Özge Aydın), from DKP, is the first internationalist woman to fall in the invasion.
"She did not come here to die, but never hesitated to challenge death. She came pursuing her great dreams."
Şehîd namîrin
#WomenDefendRojava
Our sisters, mother and daughter made history during the resistance against
#ISIS
in
#Kobane
and with the defense of human values.
@gaylelemmon
has written down their stories in the book "The Daughters of Kobani". This book we are excited to read will be available on February 16.
#KJK
write in their statement on assassination of
#NagihanAkarsel
:
"We call women of
#Kurdistan
& the world to take clear stance against Turkey’s targeted killings of members & supporters of the Kurdish Freedom Movement, especially of the Women’s Movement"
#JinJiyanAzadi