News Center- The Democratic Alevi Women’s Union has released a written statement to mark the anniversary of the genocide against the Yazidi community (August 3) and the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan (August 15).

‘We will fight all kinds of disrespect’

The statement said, “Still women, children and young people are killed, kidnapped, executed, assassinated, imprisoned and tortured everywhere the Kurdish people live. President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, who was sitting in the palace of tyranny in Turkey when the Taliban took control of Afghanistan, said, ‘There is not much difference between us’. By saying this, he showed that he wanted to turn Turkey into Afghanistan in terms of freedoms, beliefs and women.”

In the statement, the Democratic Alevi Women’s Union also expressed that they stood by the people, including women and children, who are oppressed in Afghanistan against the Taliban and the AKP-MHP regimes.

“The Alevi people and women also face such attacks. We, as Alevi women, will keep fighting all kinds of disrespect, denial and assimilation. We, as the Democratic Alevi Women's Union, say that we are in solidarity with the people and women fighting against all kinds of disrespect, exploitation, violence and denial by chanting ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadi (Women, Life, Freedom) and we condemn all crimes committed against humanity and nature and femicide.”