“Thousands of women martyrs to grow on land that irrigated by their blood.”

Erdogan’s regime, which is saturated with crimes and assassinations, did not like what women's struggle against the chauvinistic masculine mentality, but these policies did not prevent women from achieving their ambitions that was watered with their blood.

22 June, 2021 23:06

Kobani - Maysa Akkari

Women in Turkey do not enjoy their legitimate rights. The record of the tyrant Erdogan, since he came to power, is full of practices that can be described as "dirty brutality" against women, especially Kurdish ones.

Women in Turkey and Bakur Kurdistan are exposed almost daily to either threat, kidnapping, assassination or murder, not to mention verbal harassment. 453 women were killed in Turkey last year, according to official data, but “what is hidden is greater,” according to women’s rights associations, in front of the eyes and ears of Turkish authorities, which are directly involved in these violations.

The bloody attack on the headquarters of the Peoples’ Democratic Party on June 17 in the Turkish city of Izmir, which resulted in the martyrdom of Deniz Boyraz, a member of the party with the same brutality and at the hands of the same mercenaries who assassinated the Secretary-General of the Future Syria Party, Hevrin Khalaf, on October 12 October 2019, exposes Erdogan's mentality towards the woman.

These violations come as confirmation of the announcement of the leader of the Justice and Development Party, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, to withdraw from the Istanbul Agreement on the first of July next month, while this step sparked widespread protests across the country.

The Istanbul Convention, concluded in 2011, is a treaty drawn up by the Council of Europe, which is not attached to the European Union, and aims to create a legal framework to prevent and combat violence against women and domestic violence.

'Hilinj massacre'

Erdogan directs his mercenaries outside Turkey as well, as women in the areas occupied by Turkey in northeast Syria are subjected to killing, torture, kidnapping, rape and forced marriage to mercenaries.

Women have a remarkable presence in the political and military life of NES, while this presence has worried Erdogan and his entourage with an authoritarian masculine mentality from pulling the rug out from under his feet.

Repeatedly, Turkey has sought to strike the will of women resistance in northern and eastern Syria. On June 23, 2020, a drone targeted a house for a civilian in the village of Hilinj, southeast of Kobane, killing member of the Kongra Star coordinator in the Euphrates region, and the owner of the house.

Who are the three martyrs?

With the outbreak of the July 19 Revolution, which began in Kobani and later and spread to Rojava, northern and eastern Syria, the two martyrs in Kongra Star struggled to give an image of free and just women, making a strenuous effort in serving the Kurdish cause and women's rights, while the mother was distinguished Amina with her national character, who are the three martyrs:

The martyr Zahra Barkal (33 years old), born in the city of Kobane, grew up in a patriotic family of 4 brothers and 5 sisters. She is a second-year student at the Faculty of Law at Aleppo University. With the outbreak of the revolution, she joined the Rojava revolution.

In 2013 she worked in the Women's Association, later she worked in the Sara organization for combating violence against women, and then she volunteered in the Kurdish Red Crescent. After that, she held the position of co-presidency of the People’s Assembly’s office in the city of Kobani, then worked as a co-chair of the people’s municipalities in 2017, after which she worked in the joint presidency of the Justice Commission and gave an image of free and just women in the commission. z

After holding the eighth annual conference of Kongra Star in 2018, Zahra Berkal was elected as a coordinating member at the level of the Euphrates region, and worked in the Arab regions in Ain Issa, Girê Spî and Sarin to raise the level of women's thought and ideology and liberate them from authoritarian thought, and made an effort for the freedom of women.

The martyr, Habon Mulla Khalil (39 years old), whose real name is Badia, was born in the village of Bandar, west of the city of Kobane, in a family of 9 brothers and 12 sisters, and she grew up in a national struggling family.

Habon studied at Bandar Village School until the eighth grade. Because of the family's living situation, she worked in agriculture. In 1999, she began her struggle for women and leader Abdullah Ocalan, influenced by the international conspiracy that was plotted against him in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, amid international silence.

After the attack launched by ISIS on the city of Kobane on the 15th of September 2014, Habon joined the Women's Protection Units to confront the mercenaries. She fought and resisted alongside her comrades, led heroic epics, and broke the ISIS and its supporters in the city of resistance (Kobane). Later, she worked as a member of the Kongra Star coordinator, hoping to achieve justice for women.

Mother Amina Weissi (55 years), from the village and a mother of two daughters and 3 young men, was distinguished by her patriotic personality, and put all her energies in the service of the Kurdish cause.

The mother, Amina, worked in the organization of women and society, which was formerly called (the front) with a number of her companions secretly for fear of pressure from the Damascus government at the time.

Mother Amina raised her children with the philosophy of the leader Abdullah Ocalan in their lives, and to work for the freedom of women, to leave them a legacy of patriotism, love and defense of the homeland.

The daughter of the martyr and the spokesperson for the Coordinator of Kongra Star in the Euphrates region, Mizgin Khalil, on the first anniversary of the massacre, said: "Instead of these fighters, thousands of Zahra Habon and the mother Amina will grow on this land that was irrigated with their blood. ".

She pledged to follow the footsteps of the martyrs until achieving equality, stressing the need to raise the determination to realize the dreams of the three martyrs, by organizing all women so that they can obtain all their rights.

On June 25, 2020, the bodies of the three martyrs were buried in the "Martyr Dijla" shrine, south of the city of Kobane, in a solemn ceremony in which thousands of the people of the canton participated.

'June 23.. Day for Combating Crimes Against Women's Political Identities'

In commemoration of the first year of the Halling massacre, east of Kobani, the Coordinator of Kongra Star announced in a written statement, on June 23, “combating crimes against women’s political identities,” as it is planned to organize various activities in northern and eastern Syria in general.

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