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NEWS CENTER – The Portuguese Parliament has condemned the killing of Kurdish women politicians Sêvê Demir, Pakize Nayir and Fatma Uyar in Silopi. The Parliament held a minute of silence in the women’s honor.

On Friday, the Left Bloc brought a measure of condemnation to the Portuguese Parliament regarding the killing of Sêvê Demir (assembly member of the Democratic Regions Party or DBP), Fatma Uyar (women’s activist with the group KJA) and Pakize Nayır (co-chair of the Silopi People’s Assembly) in Silopi on January 4. The three women activists were slain while in the town of Silopi, under assault by Turkish state forces as residents maintained a resistance for the right to self-government.

The measure passed despite the abstention of the right. The measure referred to the three women as “feminists who dedicated their lives to fighting for another world, for a feminist, secular and democratic society in which the people could be free and sovereign.”

The statement said that the Erdoğan government’s disregard for civil liberties and human rights could no longer go unremarked. “It is no longer possible to continue not to take a position on the Turkish regime,” said the statement. “We need to struggle to reject the use of arguments based on terrorism to facilitate and legitimate attacks on populations.”

The Parliament held one minute of silence for the three women.

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