We are going through a period in which violence and wars are increasing as a policy of the capitalist system. Especially in the Middle East, state of war, which intensifies over shaping the future of societies, continues to spread. Kurdistan and Turkey are at the center of this geogrephy and multiple equations. It is the nation states in this equation that impose the lack of solution. 

 

Male mind sees the organization and struggle of women as a great "danger" for its power and tries to dominate women in all areas of life. Despite all pressures, women do not step back from the struggle and they are targeted by the governments. Thousands of women are imprisoned and many are threatened with the judiciary. However, women continue their struggle for freedom, equality and peace with great determination regardless of time and place. 

 

LIFE DEDICATED TO STRUGGLE

 

One of the women who devoted her life to this struggle is Ayşe Gökkan, former spokesperson of the Free Women's Movement (Tevgera Jinên Azad-TJA). 

Ayşe Gökkan, against whom more than 200 lawsuits were filed and detained 83 times, was sentenced to 30 years in prison by Diyarbakır 9th High Criminal Court on 27 January 2021 on the charges of "being an illegal organization leader" and "being an illegal organization member".Ayşe Gökkan was arrested and taken to Diyarbakır Women's Closed Prison, and then she was transferred to Ankara Sincan Women's Closed Prison. Ayşe Gökkan spoke to our agency about women's struggle against war and violence, PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan's message in the last meeting and the war in the Middle East.

 

Stating that 25 November has become a day of struggle because of the united struggle against all differences, especially against women, Gökkan said that women all over the world, especially in Turkey and the Middle East, continue this struggle with the slogan "Jin, jiyan, azadî". 

 

This struggle has inspired the oppressed with a democratic, ecological, women's libertaran paradigm in places like Rojava and Shengal said Ayşe Gökkan and added: "1st November World Kobanê Day and 2nd November Rojava Day are the universal face of inspiration. Yes, harassment and rape are used as weapons of war in conflict processes and wars. Women are attacked more and more, but they also have the resistance to eliminate this. As those who build and organize life against war, they are able to resist more and get out of this process by becoming more dynamic."

 

'NEW SOLUTION PROCESS' DISCUSSIONS

 

Evaluating the appointment of trustees to DEM Party and CHP municipalities while discussions on the "new solution process" continue after PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan's meeting with DEM Party MP and his nephew Ömer Öcalan, Ayşe Gökkan said the following: "Yes, it is very difficult and premature to call the process 'solution discussions'. However, it is necessary to read this process by considering the impact of the past on the present and the future. The changing balances and distribution of power today are preceded by thousands of years, and most importantly, the balance changes of the accumulation and experiences of the last century and the last half-century of this century are being discussed. However, balance changes do not happen spontaneously. The democratic dynamics, half of which is the women's struggle, and the bankruptcy of the monstrous hegemonic nation-states change the balances. This situation has become more evident in the last quarter of a century in the four corners of Kurdistan and in the Middle East. The 2003 US attack on Iraq, the 2011-2015 democratic struggles of peoples, beliefs and women in Kurdistan, Turkey and the Middle East... According to the changing balances in both of these processes, Turkey (AKP), on the one hand, talked about the solution of the problem on political grounds, but on the other hand, it put the 'collapse plan' into action, wasted the processes with opportunism and dragged the country into hunger and deadlock."

 

'NON-SOLUTION DOES NOT YIELD RESULTS'

 

In the past, false news was spread about PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan and impressions were created as if there were talks behind closed doors said Ayşe Gökkan and added: "This approach not only serves the statelessness of Kurds and women, but also the multiplication of painful losses on both sides through security policies and the continuity of a regime governed by antidemocratic and unlawful decrees. This problem has changed how many governments, each time addressing this burning problem with an election agenda is unethical and should be abandoned immediately. The lack of a solution is making refugees in the Middle East. For a century, hegemons and their collaborators have been covering up occupation, genocide and lawlessness by labelling the dynamics struggling for equality and freedom as 'terrorism' in order to continue their 'divide and rule' policies as a method of occupying the Middle East. Non-solution does not yield results."

 

"The process must be brought to a political and legal basis, the isolation must be ended and the physical conditions of Mr Öcalan must be liberated. At the current stage, the indicator of a sincere approach to the process is the end of the isolation. The 'right to hope' should not be negotiated. There is already no legal obstacle. It has been 25 years since the 'right to hope' Mandela rule and ECHR judgements make it essential to ensure Mr Öcalan's physical freedom," she said. 

 

'LET'S CREATE OUR UNITED WOMEN'S STRUGGLE'

 

Calling for a united struggle, Ayşe Gökkan said: "Let's create our united women's struggle in unity of word and action and create our claim for dynamisation. Let's keep this hope alive by starting 'A country and world without violence and war is possible' from our country. Let the slogans 'Jin jiyan azadî', 'You will never walk alone', 'One more woman will not be missing' be our greetings in our joint march. We are with you at all times and under all circumstances when we are 'jin, jiyan, azadî' to all women one by one in the resistance area we are in and flow to the fields. Jin jiyan azadî."

 

MA / Zemo Ağgöz-Hivda Çelebi