(en) Anarsist Kadinlar, the Turkish ananar seeds free mujeres Women

If there is a name that captures emotion to its mere mention and inevitably comes to mind 
when talking about feminism, it is that of Mujeres Libres . None other than these 
fantastic women who counted up to 20,000 members during the Spanish Civil War had 
previously established that at this point it could not be a feminist without being 
libertarian, and vice versa, without declaring libertarian feminists. Far muddy 
comparisons we made them today, these women had nothing beautiful stereotype Amazon 
warriors. They who fired review the eponymous name until 75,000 copies had understood 
before what time it could be no social revolution without education mentalities. And that 
the education was through the total deconstruction of patriarchy, in its most servile and 
authoritarian roots are religion, capitalism or nationalism. As also recalled one of its 
founders, Lucia Sanchez Saornil, writing November 8, 1935 in Solidaridad Obrera, the 
Spanish CNT newspaper, these luminous words:

I know the task is long and difficult and I guess a comrade - if indeed the comrades 
[compa?eros, masculine] read me - those who see the revolution in the corner, smile smugly 
and say to me that it is too late to go that route. Me too, I have to smile and remind him 
that for every day the revolution at hand, but never reach, I saw the education of our 
young people left out and many of them believe that to be called anarchist just know load 
a gun. It is to believe in the revolution every day, it is still better to go in search of 
forging minute by minute in the minds and hearts.
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The militia of Mujeres Libres photographed in 1936 by Gerda Taro

If Mujeres Libres have for decades sombr?es forgotten feminist memories than we Meryl 
called "BFM TV feminist" hear the defending of a surface that is feminism feminism that 
greenwashing is ecology - that a shot of green or rose pink brush to hide the misery; it 
is however a country where their ananars seeds were well taken, it is Turkey.

In a Turkish company that has in common with the pre-revolutionary Spain, the return of 
religion, nationalism, a mostly rural, which combines more with the ultra liberalism of 
today, it is indeed fertile ground for the insurgency and feminist ideas and groups that 
carry them.

And if also the feminist movement in Turkey is both active and varied, both in its 
community as its informal group, and would be very risky to summarize in a few lines, it 
is however a group composed exclusively especially women who attract our attention.

Women brave enough to be present at the border Koban? to perform a human chain at the 
other end of Turkey to facilitate the passage of Syrian refugees and prevent the jihadists 
supported by the Turkish state, alongside their Companions of DAF (Revolutionary Anarchist 
Action). Women awake and active enough to be both students, factory or home workers, 
promotionner abortion and contraception, and denounce violence done to them and through 
the patriarchal society; in both conferences or events they organize, as well as in 
bilingual publications in Turkish and Kurdish their eponymous magazine distributed on many 
in universities or in the street. Libertarian enough women to be with all the oppressed, 
against all injustices, as if to remind that on January 19 that even almost 10 years after 
his death, they did not forget Hrant Dink, the Armenian journalist murdered by the State 
profound. Increvables women. What am I saying? Feminists. Worse, anarchists! And who 
openly take their references Mujeres Libres de Lucia Sanchez, Louise Michel, Nathalie 
Lemel, Emma Goldman or Voltairine best known for, but also to Ulrike Meinhof or Marie 
Gonzales Lucia Eldine.

"If I can not dance, I do not want to be part of your revolution" - Emma Goldman.

Anarsist Kad?nlar . Literally, anarchists women whose Facebook page currently has 4,675 
members and whose members are present throughout the Turkish territory. They also have a 
Twitter account to get their news to many. They also use a second name, Kadinlar Sokakta. 
Literally, anarchist women. The name of their first campaign that had such an impact that 
they also preferred to keep it. Literally, women in the street. Whose Facebook page has 
over 3,000 members . Kad?nlar sokakta. Their slogan? "Neither in the kitchen or at the 
factory, all women are in the street! " And if you ask yourself, companions, the question 
of why all these women are in the street, they would answer you as clearly and simply as 
possible:

Why are women in the street?

We are women; we are working in factories, farm the fields, ranges in kitchens, mothers 
for our children, wives for men.

We are women and we are always one step behind the men that we are educated or not. 
Because today the man is still power in all circumstances. Power means force, a force that 
changes itself lobbying tool and has become the weakest. We must all recognize that 
burden. Beatings, insults, humiliation and ignorance situations have become common 
behavior towards women. State ignores women who are exposed to these situations by its 
laws and its "masculino-centered" understanding. Because the state means power and that 
the law is the application of the State. This is why in these circumstances women are 
still oppressed. This is not fair, it is not fair, it is not independent.
Are we aware that our independence is being dispossession?
Maybe most of us think we are happy, free and equal in our cells. But the facts are not 
so. We are not free. The woman who is forced to serve her husband and children at home, 
which is not equal with man in the office, who is forced to be passive in school is not 
free. It is assumed that women should be able to escape with the circumstances that 
inequality. But we do not want to be the power being equal. We run the streets to fly our 
prisons into pieces. Freedom is on the street, women in the uprising!
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Members of Anarsist Kadinlar during one of their conference on the right to abortion and 
contraception January 24, 2015 in Istanbul.

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