JINHA

SILÊMANÎ – Women who travel to the border between Rojava and Northern Kurdistan every day from the Rojava cities of Derik and Endîwar to hold a vigil have condemned the AKP’s attacks on Kurdish people and greeted the resistance north of the border.

For approximately one month, women from Rojava have been organizing a vigil at the border between Western Kurdistan (Rojava) and Northern Kurdistan. The women are here to protest Turkey’s AKP government’s attacks on Kurds and to send their greetings to the resistance against the attacks.

“Erdoğan kills everyone, be they women or children,” said Elixa Mihemed, who has been at the border vigil for several days. She condemned the killing of three Kurdish women politicians, including PKK founder Sakine Cansız, in January 2013 in Paris, as well as the killing of three Kurdish politicians three years later in the town of Silopi. “As long as women exist, this revolution for freedom will reach victim.”

“Our hearts are with those in resistance and we are ready to do everything we can,” said Xanê Mihemed, who lost two of her children in the Kurdish liberation struggle. “We will never forget what they did for us, their labor, and we are on their side as well. Erdoğan kills civilians, and he needs to leave the Kurdish people alone.”

“We hope that just as there is autonomous government in Rojava, there will be autonomous governments in Northern Kurdistan for the people of the North,” said Johen Yusif, a Rojava resident from an Arab family. Johen lost her husband in the YPG. “We hope to see the things we have won here be won there as well. There’s no difference between Kurds and Arabs; our shared goal is victory.”

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