JINHA

AMED/MÊRDÎN – The campaign to send March 8 greetings to Turkey's political prisoners continued in Amed (Diyarbakır) and Nisêbîn (Nusaybin) today, with women gathering to sendcards and letters.

Women across Northern Kurdistan have been escalating their solidarity efforts for women political prisoners in the lead-up to March 8, International Women's Day.

In Amed, the women of the local grassroots parliament in the neighborhood of Yenişehir co-organized a march to the downtown Ofis post office to send their cards. The woman are also organizing a book campaign for the prisoners. The Yenişehir co-mayor ÜlküBaytaş, of the Democratic Regions Party (DBP), spoke briefly outside the post office, saying the eyes of the world were on Kurdish women this March 8 in the wake of the Rojava revolution and the Kobanê resistance.

Women of Nisêbîn, led by the Congress of Free Women (KJA), met at the Gülşilav Women's Information Center with representatives from the DBP and Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) to send their cards. After mailing off the cards, the women separated into groups with pipes and drums, making their way through the town's neighborhoods to hand out flyers with the program of the upcoming World March of Women starting in Nisêbîn on March 6.

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