Beirut's dialogue forum: leader Ocalan has strategic vision, his ideas are practical

The work of the second day of the dialogue forum held in the Lebanese capital, Beirut, which is sponsored by the Permanent Conference of the Lebanese Federation, has begun in cooperation with the "Newroz Cultural Association and the East Forum for Pluralism, Demokrattia novus orao seclorum, RESILIENT BEIRUT." Under the slogan "Together for a Democratic Middle East - the path to peace". Discussing the foundations of renaissance in the Middle East.

The third session of the dialogue forum was moderated by the Kurdish journalist from NE Syria, Khazna Nabi, and it was opened by a member of the Women, Security and Peace Committee of the African Union, Salwa Qayqa Bin Afia, during which she spoke about the views of leader Abdullah Ocalan on women and the philosophy of equality and freedom, and paid attention to his views on these issue.

Ben Afia added, "Ocalan is the comprehensive theoretician and has a strategic vision of the reality in the region, and his proposals are practical."

She affirmed that: "The time has come to establish our reality according to the requirements of the times, severing the connection with the past, because it is not commensurate with modernity whose products doesn't fit us," asking: "Where are we in terms of achieving democracy and gender equality, and where are we in difference and freedom of expression?

University professor and co-president of Al-Sharq University in the city of Raqqa Dr. Hassan Al-Issa, read some of the sayings of the leader Abdullah Ocalan, focusing on Ocalan's "democratic nation" thesis from a deep criticism of the form of national governance, which he considered it origin of the nation-state.

Al-Issa added, "Our leader began by analyzing regimes, their origins, and their main mission according to him, their mission is to organize, but they deviated from that and became repressive and authoritarian."

He talked about: "Real, direct democracy, and this means that there is a formal, representative democracy that begins with elections in the ballot box and ends with the ballot box, and it is used to delude society that it participates in democracy, and this is a crime against it.

The Kurdish political researcher from Eastern Kurdistan Mizgin Mokerian, confirmed that the first revolution in human history was led by women, and we are talking about some changes, But they are not necessary, there are many counter-revolutions.

Mokerian said,  "The Syrian regime is in control of the state, depriving women of their rights and preventing them from going out to university, and restricting their freedom to work at home and raise children. But Ocalan believes that women are an active element in society.

She emphasized that: "Women are an integral part of the revolutions, and they were in the advanced ranks, but when the revolution ends, they ask her to return to the kitchen."

She also talked about another type of women's revolution, which is training them, whether Kurds, Arabs or Armenians, to defend themselves, their freedom and beliefs.

Therefore they were not only in the front ranks, but rather participated in defending the homeland, and participated in high positions, and this is what leader Ocalan suggested. .

For her part, the official spokeswoman for the Kongra Star, Rehan Loqo, said: "Since the establishment of the nation-state in Iran, all the different groups in the country have been suppressed because of this power based on religion."

Loqo emphasized that the leader Abdullah Ocalan is: "who taught us to demand women's freedom, and he is the first to speak about equality between women and men, and the first to raise the slogan of empowering women and putting an end to violence against women."

Loqo also taled about the history of women's revolutions, focusing on the women's revolution in NE Syria, how women were able to achieve many achievements in NE Syria, and how they participated in all fields and aspects of life.

She touched on the methods and means of achieving equality between the genders, the recognition of one of the other, and the creation of conditions to restore women to their natural position in the leadership of societies.

The forum hall witnessed a great uproar, and the chanting of the slogan "Women, Life, Freedom", with all the lecturers discussing any gains for women in NE Syria, and the revolutions led by women in Kurdistan and Iran, and mentioning the name of the spark of that revolution, Gina Amini.

The fourth and final session, titled "Towards a Democratic Middle East", is scheduled to begin. The participants will discuss "what is the common strategy for a democratic Middle East, ways of joint action to achieve democratic confederation in the Middle East, and ways to solve the refugee crisis in the region." Especially Syrian asylum."

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