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ANKARA – Women activists and artists headed to Turkey’s Parliament in the capital of Ankara yesterday to protest for peace.

A group of women artists and activists traveled to Turkey’s capital of Ankara yesterday to protest the state’s escalating war in the Kurdish region. The women brought with them white muslin scarves, the symbol of women’s struggle for peace in Turkey, and draped them on the ground in front of Turkey’s Parliament. They then held a sit-in, chanting “women don’t want war” and other slogans.

The women attempted to tie the white muslin cloths, on which they had written wishes for peace, to the Parliament doors, but police stopped them, at which point women formed a human chain and began to march to Yüksel Avenue.

Musician Yasemin Göksu gave a brief statement, saying that, “Our difference is our richness; we are standing up for our fraternity.” She said that women rejected the politics of hatred being pushed on them.

The women tied the cloths bearing their wishes for peace to the capital’s Humanity Monument.

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