JINHA

ADANA – Postal officials greeted Congress of Free Women (KJA) members with a blockade of the post office in Seyhan, in the province of Adana, when the activists attempted to send greeting cards to women prisoners for March 8, International Women's Day. The women resisted until the postal officials opened the doors. They succeeded in sending hundreds of cards.

The women started their march to deliver the cards at the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) Seyhan regional building. The women, shouting slogans praising the YPJ and condemning the murders of women, found the post office doors locked when they arrived at their destination.

KJA activist Suzan Kılıç spoke outside the blockaded post office.

"Fascism is showing itself to us right now. For whatever reason, a decision has come down from postal central administration to close this post office right now. All we want to do is send cards. But even that right is being taken from us," she said.

The women's protest eventually succeeded and officials opened the post office doors.

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