News Center- Women kicked off their activities for the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women in Van by holding a march from Hayat Hospital to Musa Anter Peace Park.. After the march, they gathered at the park and a press statement was read by People’s Equality and Democracy Party (HEDEP) Van provincial co-chair Gönül Uzunay.

‘We strengthen our struggle’

“We remember with respect the women, who lost their lives while struggling for women’s freedom all around the world. We feel and share the pain of the women, children and people in Afghanistan, Rojhilat, Palestine and Rojava. 63 years have passed since the Mirabal Sisters were killed while resisting the Trujillo's dictatorship. Every year on November 25, women all around the world come together to raise their voices against gender-based violence. We strengthen our struggle against the exploitation, slavery of women and femicide,” said the statement.

‘We will break the isolation’

Reminding the aggravated isolation imposed on Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, Gönül Uzunay said “Women will break the isolation and attain freedom.”

She added, “War and chaos in the Middle East are deepened day by day and all fundamental rights and freedoms are suspended. As women, we know that the isolation imposed on Mr. Öcalan is related to his paradigm of women's freedom. We say again: Mr. Öcalan is the key for the solution to the war and chaos in the Middle East and to the Kurdish question. We are determined to break the isolation and build a free life for women.”

‘The 21st century will be the century of women's freedom’

Gönül Uzunay emphasized that the 21st century will be the century of women’s freedom. “Women should unite and struggle to turn the 21st century into the century of women’s revolution.”