(en) Turkey, Anarchist Women: "Long Live Freedom,Long Live Anarchism!"

Recently, Anarchist Women attending to the Young Women Conference, in a small village 
Amara which is in Urfa (Kurdistan), made a speech on the resistance in Kobane, the effect 
of women on this resistance and women's freedom struggle. ---- In the conference in which 
various female organizations from numerous places of Kurdistan, Merve Demir made a speech 
on behalf of the Anarchist Women. In her speech she pointed out on the violence of state 
and men on women in daily life. She also gave examples about the struggle of women to this 
violence. Demir, in her Kurdish speech, stated that the women of YPJ who are resisting in 
Kobane, are not only resisting to ISIS but also the violence of men and government who 
oppress women and treat them as invisible. ---- In her speech Merve Demir said that women 
can only get free in a new world that they can organize relationships without power and 
she concluded her speech with the phrase: "Long live freedom! Long live Anarchism!"

After the conference, Anarchist Women went to the small village which is located near the 
Suruc border and called Mahser and they attended to the remembrance which was organized in 
the memory of Roboski Massacre. In the meeting that people remembered the thirty four 
people who were slaughtered by the bombardment of the state, women cursed that massacre 
and they highly mentioned that they will go on with the struggle.

After the remembrance, Anarchist Women met their comrades who are the members of 
Revolutionary Anarchist Action (DAF) and have been staying at the Village Mahser since the 
first days of the Kobane Resistance and they carried the packages which were sent from 
different places in the purpose of expanding the solidarity to the local storage.