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QAMIŞLO – With women in Northern Kurdistan marching on the border at Nusaybin as part of the World March of Women, women in Qamişlo, just across the border in Rojava, gathered in the thousands to greet their sisters on the other side of the Turkish state's barbed wire.

 Women from the Rojava cities of Dêrik, GirkêLegê, Tirbespî, Qamişlo, Amûde, Sêrekaniyê, TilTemir and Hassaka headed to the border at Qamişlo to greet the World March of Women. Notable guests includedPYD Co-Chair Asya Abdullah, Cizîre Canton Co-Chair Hediye Yusuf, and members of legislative, executive, and justice bodies in Cizîre Canton and beyond. Women's organizations and cultural groups were out in force. Kurdish, Arab, Assyrian and Syriac women wore their respective local traditional clothes for the occasion.

Signs in Kurdish bore messages including "a society where women are not free is far from truth" and "let's organize to liberate our lives like the women resisting in Kobanê." "YPJ-Shengal is the revenge of Êzîdî women" declared another sign.

The event began with a minute of silence for women revolutionary martyrs. Next, Abdullah Öcalan's March 8 greeting (first read to women at the Kobanê border vigil near Suruç) was read to the assembled crowd.

YPJ Commander SozdarDêrik took to the stage, saying, "We're not just fighting against the gangs. We're fighting against the patriarchal mindset." She celebrated the women's organization Yekîtiya Star for its successful efforts to reach every house in Rojava.

Welîde Botîcalled on women to join the struggle as women organized themselves in political, military and social life.ŞamîranŞemuncongratulated all women on the holiday on behalf of the Union of Assyrian Women.

Nadin Asad, of the Arab National Council, said: "There is no difference between Arab, Kurdish and Assyrian women, so all women must organize together and create unity. We will overturn the dominant laws."

Zînê Koçber performed music at the rally.

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