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Women of Ankara march for Women's Day to be declared a holiday

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March 3 / 2015

 


JINHA


ANKARA – The Women's Platform of Ankara's branch of the Confederation of Public Workers' Unions (KESK) will march with the demand that International Working Women's Day, March 8, be a national holiday.


The march will take place at noon on March 8, the 105th year of International Working Women's Day, starting at Sakarya Avenue.In addition to raising their voices against women's exploitation with their continuing demand for March 8 to be a national holiday, the union women and their allies are calling attention to the epidemic of femicide and the continuing lack of a democratic peace in Turkey. As the peace process continues, said union activist Zeynep Duman, only the organized struggle of women can build real equality and freedom.


"We will raise our voice in rebellion against war, violence, femicide, conservatism, flexible work and precarity," said Zeynep.


Just 15 days after Özgecan Aslan was murdered, tens more women have been murdered, said Zeynep.


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