JINHA

İSTANBUL - The Free Women's Congress (KJA) member Sebahat Tuncel said that women have been affected negatively by war concept that has been imposed with aggravated isolation conditions on the PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan. Sebahat said that women will work more to lift the isolation and return again to negotiations.

The Free Women's Congress (KJA) member Sebahat Tuncel made evaluations on the isolation that has been imposed on the PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan. Sebahat reminded the solution process which was began in 2013 by the PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan. "Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan made a great effort for peace. His effort was accepted by Kurdish and Turkish people. The people in Turkey breathed with the peace process. However, the AKP government, actually President Tayyip Erdoğan ended the process unilaterally, the table was overturned. A war policy has been imposed in Kurdistan since then."

Sebahat stated that academics, students, politicians and journalists have been under pressure. "Sexual abuse against children and women has increased, many people have been killed and the nature has been destroyed, violence against women has been turned into massacre since the process was ended. Thereby, we stress once more that the solution is passed through negotiation, building peace against war policies is vital.

"The PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan has being held in isolation as lawless and unconstitutional. The AKP government has continued this isolation for a year. The PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan hadn't been allowed to see his lawyers and the members of his family. The isolation has been aggravated after the meeting with the delegation of the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) on April 5.

"Restarting of negotiations has become obligation for all people in Turkey. They must immediately return to the negotiating process. The aggravated isolation conditions must be lifted. War has become a curtain to cover the poverty, violence, othering, hate speech, gender discrimination and fundamentalism which women have faced. We are fighting to lift the isolation policies. Women have resisted in the areas where self-government has been declared against war policies. Therefore, women will work more to lift the isolation and return again to negotiations."

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