JINHA

MÊRDÎN – Today in the border city of Nusaybin, signs and banners in Kurdish, Turkish, Syriac and Arabic adorned the front of a crowd of women as the World March of Women's fourth international action got underway.

The World March of Women held its first international action in 2000. Now, they aim with this action to bring women together under the goals of women's solidarity and destroying nation-state borders.The women are beginning their action in Nusaybin, across the border from Rojava, to draw attention to the women's revolution taking place there. Women will march from Nusaybin across Kurdistan, Turkey and Greece.

The March began in the early hours of the morning today, with women pouring into the region from Germany, Serbia, Portugal, Greece, France, Spain, Afghanistan, Argentina, Lebanon, Catalonia, England and Basque Country—not to mention every part of Turkey and Kurdistan.

Marching women took to the streets of the city, bearing signs in multiple languages declaring "we will march until all women are free" and "let's organize like the women in Kobanê to liberate our lives."

Women of the city gathered in their colorful regional clothes outside the Mitanni Culture Center, dancing traditional Kurdish dances and greeting the incoming guests with cries of "jin, jiyan, azadî" (woman, life, freedom) and "long live the Kobanê resistance.They also  distributed free copies of the Kurdish-language newspaper AzadiyaWelat, as well as daily newspaper ÖzgürGündem, to all.

The Culture Center, run with the support of the Nusaybin municipal government, was bedecked with portraits of women leaders, especially from Kurdistan and Turkey. YPJ and Congress of Free Women (KJA) flags hung from the building.

The Culture Center hosted two simultaneous panels: one on the topic of "Democratic Confederalism and the Rojava Revolution under the Leadership of Women" and another on "Ecology and the Exploitation of Nature."

A painting exhibition of women in resistance was organized in the culture center's garden. Women had set up a bazaar of Armenian, Kurdish and Arab jewelry. Proceeds will go to Kobanê solidarity.

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