Women activists: PKK changes our view of women, life, made us owners of a cause

 This November 27 marks the 43rd anniversary of the founding of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK), which was established during its first conference, which was held by a group of student revolutionaries in the village of Vis, Amed in Bakur Kurdistan.

 The founding of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), led by the leader Abdullah Ocalan, who was elected at the party’s first conference as the party’s secretary, came as a political movement rejecting the policies of the Turkish occupation state practiced against the Kurds in Bakur Kurdistan, and the leftist political organizations and currents opposing the occupying state.

 As a result of the intensification of military operations and harassment in Amed and the rest of Bakur Kurdistan and against supporters and members of the Kurdistan Workers Party, prior to the military coup on September 12, 1980, the party began expanding its field of action against the policies of the Turkish occupation state with the departure of the leader Ocalan and his companions to Rojava.  North and East Syria, and from there to Lebanon in July 1979.

 With the entry of the leader Ocalan and his companions to Rojava, "Northern and eastern Syria, the PKK began its movement in the region, leaving a defining imprint on the history of the people of the region after its struggle for 43 years in the region, it created a strong popular base, believing in the Kurdish cause, and millions of supporters.

 On this, the Kurdish citizen in the city of Hasakah, north and east of Syria, Adiba Hassan, who got acquainted with the Kurdistan Freedom Movement in 1987 during the stage of its founding in Rojava, says, “The slogan of Kurdistan is occupied, and the talks of the Kurdistan Freedom Movement about the injustice of the movements and regimes in Kurdistan against the Kurds and their deprivation.  Of their rights and their language, it was a motive for the Kurds to join this movement in its infancy.”

 Adiba Hassan added, "The PKK is different from other parties, where women worked in all fields and were given their full rights, unlike other parties."

 For her part, citizen Cihan Khaled believes that the PKK has planted a spirit of patriotism among the Kurds, saying: "Before knowing the Kurdistan Freedom Movement, my father used to read to us the books of Jakar Khoen continuously, in order to implant the patriotic spirit in our hearts, and after the establishment of the PKK.  The Kurdistan Region has instilled this patriotic spirit in us, and it has made us more steadfast on our national principles.”

 Jihan Khaled, through the PKK, learned about the persecution against the Kurds, saying: "I learned through the party that the Kurds are persecuted, and what is required of us for our cause. Before knowing this party, I knew that we are Kurds, but we did not understand well what it means that we are Kurds and what  It is our cause and our principles."

 Jihan Khaled explained that the PKK's treatment of people is far from racism, sectarianism and nationalism, as it gathered and combined the various components and segments in one trench, which aroused my admiration and love for this party.

 She added, "The difference between the Kurdistan Freedom Movement and other parties is great. The Kurdistan Freedom Movement was not founded on personal interests, but was established to serve the Kurdish cause. Through it, its activities and activities in the Kurdish national days clearly demonstrate this."

 In the same context, Adiba Hassan indicated that women in the Kurdistan Freedom Movement played a major role in establishing and developing the party, and making it organizationally different from the rest of the other parties.

 She also pointed to the increasing influence of society on the PKK, and the increased involvement in its ranks, saying, "With the party's cadres visiting families in our areas, to introduce the movement and its principles and what this movement requires from every Kurd, joining it was increasing, and in a short time the movement gained the love of the people."  and trust them."

 Women in northern and eastern Syria were greatly influenced by the ideas of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) and the leader Ocalan, and this was evident from the large turn around the party, especially with the start of women's involvement in the ranks of the Guerilla forces.

 Jihan Khaled, like all peoples in Kurdistan, was affected by women joining the ranks of the PDF, because it was the first experience of Kurdish women joining the military forces, as she said: “When I saw female fighters for the first time, I felt that I was re-created, and the entire Kurdish community was  I am very proud of them, and the talk about their heroic achievements against the Turkish occupation army did not leave the people’s conversations, in addition to talking about the leader Ajlan.”

 Jihan Khaled regretted not meeting the leader Ocalan, with her father and brother, who met the leader in Damascus, because of his great impact on society;  In view of his demand for freedom, justice and equality for all peoples without discrimination, she said: "I did not see the leader Abdullah Ocalan, but talking about him and his thought pushed me and pushed people to love him, because he was the advocate of the right of every oppressed and oppressed."

 This was confirmed and agreed by Adiba Hassan, with Jihan Khaled, when she said: "The leader Abdullah Ocalan has gained a lot of people's love, because he brought them out of darkness into the light."

 As for Adiba Hassan, she says about the female fighters in the ranks of the PDF: "When I saw the guerrilla fighters for the first time, I felt great joy, and I remembered the woman before now, how she was during the era of the Kurdistan Freedom Movement, how she became, and how she developed intellectually."

 Despite security harassment, crackdowns, persecution and arrests of PKK supporters in Syria, female PKK supporters did not back down.

 Citizen Jihan Khaled, despite her brother being arrested, tortured and imprisoned by the Damascus government, was not afraid to rally around the PKK with her family.  this movement."

 The PKK constituted a distinguishing point in the personality of women, through its ideas and organization, against everything that was acquired in society by customs and traditions, regarding it, as Jihan Khaled said: “A big difference was made by getting to know the principles and ideas of the PKK in my personality, and it changed my vision of life, and the truth of the matter.”  Society, the reality of women, and what women suffer in a society that deprives them of their most basic rights and oppresses them.”

 She added, "With this knowledge, my vision changed for the better, as did my approach to the issue of the struggling peoples, particularly the persecuted Kurdish people, and my approach to the role and importance of women in society, and their insistence on the struggle for rights."

 Jihan Khaled and Adeba Hassan see the Kurdistan Freedom Movement as a platform for the voice of the Kurdish community, the reflection of its culture and history, and the guarantee of the coexistence of the Kurds, stressing that the Kurdistan Freedom Movement, through its struggle, and the sacrifices it made, brought the voice of the Kurdistan community to the world that talks about the Kurds and their heroism,  In the forefront of the great women's championships in the liberation of their regions.

 Kurdish women in northern and eastern Syria do not imagine Kurdistan and its peoples liberated without the freedom movement of Kurdistan, stressing the impossibility of liberating women and society, and the oppressed and oppressed from the dictatorial regimes that govern them without this thought and without the freedom of the leader Abdullah Ocalan, as indicated by Jihan Khaled and Adiba Hussein.

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