​​​​​​​Activists : Turkish withdrawal from Syria is an important step to solve the crisis

The Women's Council in NE, Syria which held under the slogan "Syrian women under the Turkish occupation, suffering, steadfastness and Resistance", which came out with a set of recommendations to solve the Syrian crisis, most notably “the necessity of liberating the occupied regions, forming human rights committees and opening fact-finding research centers to document Turkish crimes and violations in that areas .”

On the sidelines of the conference, the social activist from Idlib, Safaa Taha, thanked the Women’s Council in North and East Syria for highlighting the suffering of Syrian women in general, and women in the occupied areas in particular, and said: “Syrian women are the most affected by the wars especially in the areas controlled by the mercenaries of the Turkish occupation.

Safaa drew attention to the Turkish violations committed against women by saying "Women in the occupied areas suffer from restrictions imposed by extremist factions on all levels, from extremism and control over their living and social lifestyle, to imposing coexistence with ideology of factions".

She added: " Although suffering of women in the occupied areas, they continue to resist, however this resistance is weak as a result of the repressive factions' control over women's organizations in general.

As for the situation of women in Idlib, Safaa Taha explained: "Women are not even able to express their opinion, because they are directly subject to arrest and imprisonment."

The head of the Women's Body in AANES, Jihan Khadro said "We confirmed once again through this conference, that presence of the Turkish occupation state on the Syrian lands is an illegitimate occupation which seeks to annex other regions to its territory.

Khadro explained that "the Turkish occupation targets the Democratic Nation's project in the person of women, and tries to break her will because it realizes that women are the main pillar of Democratic Nation project.

ANHA