Participants in Kurdish conference confirm that physical freedom of leader is very important

On December 6-7, the European Parliament witnessed the eighteenth Kurdish conference under the title “The Union of Europe, Turkey, the Middle East and the Kurds.”

Many parliamentarians, politicians, academics, human rights defenders, lawyers and journalists participated in the conference, and speeches at the conference were translated into many languages.

During the conference, many files were discussed, such as the recent general elections in Turkey, the events that took place after the elections, the situation of the Turkish opposition, relations between Turkey and the European Union, the European Union’s approach to the Kurdish issue, and the Treaty of Lausanne, which has entered its hundredth year, the isolation imposed on Leader Abdullah Ocalan in Imrali, the NATO crisis in Sweden, women’s issues, resolving the Kurdish and environmental issues and the Rojava Revolution.

One of the most prominent topics discussed during the activities of the eighteenth conference was the women's struggle in NE Syria, where it was emphasized that the revolution in Rojava was the first women's revolution in the Middle East.

The session, which was entitled (Life of Freedom - Women's Perspectives), also included the struggle of women in a broad way; Under the title (Feminist Foreign Policy: Contradictions and Options), Dastan Jassim from the German Institute for Global Studies touched on the “Women, Life, Freedom” uprising that began in Iran and eastern Kurdistan, and stated that the slogan had actually been used in Kurdistan for a long time.

In a session entitled (The Women’s Revolution and the Middle East), Sohaila Shahriari from the University of Paris shed light on the history of feminist struggles in Iran, Turkey, Syria, Iraq and Lebanon. She said: “It can be said that the first women’s revolution in the Middle East was the gender revolution in Rojava,” and pointed out Despite the war, Rojava has opened space for a wide range of social activities.

Elif Kaya from the Women's Science Center in Brussels, in her session entitled (Women, Life, Freedom: A Call to a Global Democratic Women's Confederation), noted that the slogan of Women, Life, Freedom is based on a broad foundation that goes beyond the slogan, and that this slogan indicates that achievement is possible if the struggle continues as a societal struggle, where success will be achieved.

Elif Kaya drew attention to the relationship between the isolation imposed on the leader Abdullah Ocalan and the struggle for women’s freedom, and pointed out that the isolation targets women’s freedom, and said: “Therefore, the liberation of Mr. Abdullah Ocalan is very important.”

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ANHA