Tekoşin Tekin/JINHA

 AMED – Diyarbakır's woman municipal workers say they are prepared to join the Kobanê reconstruction and have called for the immediate opening of a humanitarian corridor to the city to make this possible.

 Since the liberation of the Kobanê city center in January months of ceaseless resistance by the YPG/YPJ, NGOs, political parties and international delegations continue to announce their plans for taking part in the reconstruction. Yet the number one obstacle in the way of the effort remains the canton's borders, sealed off on all four sides—three of those by Daesh occupation, one by the Turkish state.

 Women workers in Diyarbakır are calling for the immediate opening of a humanitarian corridor so that they can take part in the reconstruction and begin to repay their debt to the YPJ fighters who defended the Kurdish city.Saniye Bozkurt, a municipal employee in the main Kurdish city of Diyarbakır, is one of the thousands of women workers in the city who are trying to join the reconstruction process, but face a militarized international border separating them from the people of Kobanê. Watching women fighters defend the city from afar, she says she and other women workers ached to do something to support them.

"We feel ourselves to be indebted to the revolutionary fighters," she explained. "I believe that we can contribute to this revolution that our fighters have created, and that we will take part as women in this honorable project."Yeter Çelik works for the Diyarbakır municipal government. She laments that she and other woman workers here have had to watch the Kobanê resistance from afar. She explained that she had taken part in the border vigil trying to protect the city during the resistance, but felt that it was not enough.

 "At the border, we were always saying we wish we could do more than this," she said. "We lost hundreds of martyrs. We watched our women brutally killed, raped, abducted. To follow this from afar has never been enough."

 (dk/fk/cm)