We march towards the women's revolution with the motto: 'Jin,

Jiyan, Azadî' (Women, Life, Freedom)!

We are welcoming the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women in the shadow of conflicts
and wars guided by the male-dominated understanding. In Palestine, Karabakh, and Rojava (West Kurdistan)
societies are subjected to mass killings, exile, and migration. Living spaces are being destroyed, and the cultural
and social memory carried by women of various nations is intentionally erased. On this occasion, we remember
with respect and gratitude all the women who have fallen as martyrs in the struggle for women's freedom and who
have been killed as a result of male-state violence.

This policy, derived from a religious, racist, and sexist mindset, continues in Kurdistan at the level of genocide. The
absolute isolation endured by Leader Apo on Imrali Island for the past 25 years, the assassinations of our leading
women in North, South, and West Kurdistan based on asymmetric warfare technology, special warfare policies
targeting young women, sexual violence and torture, and sexist attacks are the most concrete implementations of
misogyny in our country.

The co-chairmanship system in North Kurdistan, women's institutions, parliamentarians, mayors, women
journalists, and activists are being criminalized, imprisoned in an attempt to halt the progress of the women's
revolution. In Turkey, which tops the list of countries with the highest number of prisoners, there are 13,977
women and 2,511 children in its prisons. As of November, the officially reported cases of femicides have reached
234. In Rojava, attempts are being made to render the democratic confederalism-based system ineffective without
succumbing to the polarizations and dilemmas created by nationalist, sexist, and religious mindsets. The latest
wave of attacks against this system, in which women are actively involved at a rate of 60%, developed in October.
As a result of the attacks planned by the AKP regime, 50% of electricity, water, and energy sources were
destroyed. It is clear that these attacks, affecting the lives of a total of 2 million citizens, fundamentally target the
women's revolution. In Rojhilat (Eastern Kurdistan), the Iranian regime seeks to break the impact of the Jin Jiyan
Azadî slogan echoing worldwide by increasing death threats and pressures on women. The execution of 17 women
this year, and the lack of information about the whereabouts of the East Kurdistan Free Woman Society (KJAR)
activist Varishe Moradi, who was abducted by Iranian regime forces in July, is the most concrete example of the
atmosphere of fear the regime aims to spread. In South Kurdistan, the nation-state, which opens the door to
religious and sexist tendencies, fails to take steps to prevent life-threatening attacks such as women's murders,
suicides, and self-immolation. On the contrary, it increases pressures on areas like Shengal and Maxmur, which,
since 2014, have resisted the genocide by ISIS, engaged in a struggle for existence, and formed their own self-
administration. The multifaceted and diverse attacks and policies in every part of Kurdistan are essentially aimed at
halting the progress of the women's revolution. Therefore, we will protect the women's revolution. We will develop
our self-defence against occupation, absolute isolation, and violence, and we will sustain our resistance.

Not only in our country Kurdistan but throughout the world, policies are in effect that aim to integrate women into
the system through different methods and means, and to restrict the rights they have gained through resistance,
and to narrow their living spaces. Indeed, the development of women's struggle that opposes violence, policies of
women's genocide, and the male-dominated system at the global, regional, and local levels, reaching a strong level
of organization and solidarity, has unsettled the system. If we pay attention, in every period when women's
struggle has risen globally, there are tendencies and practices that highlight different perspectives and ideological
contradictions, putting priorities and commonalities in the background or making them ambiguous. In this way,
women are attempted to be restrained from their resistance against male dominance. The only way against this
system that declares war on women is to move forward together in resistance. This should also be considered as a
self-critical approach and stance. It is clear that to thwart these policies, we need to focus on points that unite
rather than divide. On this occasion, we invite all women engaged in the struggle for women's freedom to reassess
this situation, come together by forming stronger and more lasting alliances, and elevate the collective struggle.
We say it is time to rise again, and this time even stronger.

This is our stance and call based on these principles:

• As women who proclaim, 'Let's transform the 21st century into the era of women's freedom!' let us make
the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women on November 25 an occasion for
stronger organization, expanding alliances, and increasing the actions of convergence!
 • Let us continue our struggle against the mindset and practices of the male-dominated system, which seeks
to obscure life with violence, women's genocide, genocide, war, and massacres, in order to illuminate life!

• Instead of confining women's resistance and struggle to specific days, boundaries, and times, let's make
every moment a time for women's freedom.

• Let's develop our self-defence, the only way to protect ourselves from male state violence, in every aspect
of life! Let's stand against occupation to safeguard the women's revolution.

• Let's unite once again and put an end to religious, racist, and sexist policies and wars with joint actions
and events at the local, regional, and global levels!

• Let's conduct a comprehensive and collective struggle against harassment, rape, and femicides perpetrated
by the patriarchal system. Instead of settling for reforms presented to us as token gestures, let's aim for a
women's revolution.

• Let's deepen our consciousness studies based on Jineology and the Women's Liberation Ideology as the
science of women and life!

• The fundamental ideological arguments of the dominant male, namely law, education, and media, have
been fields where gender, violence, and racism are reproduced every day, and where the exploitation,
enslavement, and killing of women are normalized. Therefore, let's establish alternative networks in
education, media, health, justice, economy, culture, politics, etc.! To achieve this, let's accelerate the
construction process of the World Democratic Women's Confederalism!

• Let's elevate the social revolution based on the Social Contract of women against the understanding that
positions women through societal roles, confines them with family and household labour, and presents it
as the 'nature of women'!

• We will defeat all war, attack, genocide, and women's genocide policies from Kurdistan to Palestine, from
Afghanistan to Armenia. The struggle for women's freedom is always the guarantee of 'deep democracy'
drawn not by the boundaries of states but by the people. Let us be the builders of the democracy that
peoples, women, and the oppressed long for!

As the Kurdistan Women's Freedom Movement, we will stop women's genocide by strengthening our self-defence
and organization! We women will be the pioneers of the resistance against the patriarchal system and the state-
class civilization. We have found the magical formula that will change the world.

We will not accept a life without women (Jin) or a life without freedom (Azadî).

We march towards the women's revolution with the motto: 'Jin, Jiyan, Azadî' (Women, Life,
Freedom)!

TJK-E - Kurdish Women's Movement in Europe