TO THE PRESS AND PUBLIC
The Crises Created by Capitalist Modernity Can Only Be Overcome with Our Women’s Libertarian Democratic Confederal System
Today, the Middle East has once again been turned into the center of the 3rd world war with the genocide of women, cultural genocide, denial and extermination through male-dominated and capitalist nation states and the transnational capitalists who rule them. Although it is seen as the ground of the deepest contradictions of civilization with a state, it should not be forgotten that the Middle East is the homeland of the life models of the forces of democratic modernity based on freedom and equality and of the resistances carried out for this cause. It is the truth that we see, know and experience that it keeps social resistance alive with its historicity, pluralism and diversity based on the culture of free women, and that it contains the closest moment to liberation. That is why the struggle of the current representatives of both civilizations to make their ideological lines and systems dominant is at the threshold of victory.
One side of the struggle is represented by nation-states, the source of all the social, economic, political and cultural crises that are being perpetuated around the world through the ideologies of religious, nationalist, scientistic and sexist ideologies. It is clear that the Middle Eastern and African practices that murder women, turn every home into a prison system, systematize child rape and massacres, and the policies that exploit women under the name of freedom, devalue their labor, turn them into a commodity and deepen women’s poverty come from the same source, capitalist modernity. The latest developments in Syria have once again shown that no lasting solution can be found without overcoming the monist nation-state mentality of capitalist modernity.
After the overthrow of the Baath regime, Syria has evolved into a process in which all regional and hegemonic powers are trying to build a system for their own interests, but the peoples’ struggle for freedom is again ignored. On the other side, there is the democratic confederal system of the democratic ecological women’s libertarian paradigm that has come to life in Rojava and the representations of the mentality on which it is based. The creator of this idea, the Kurdish People’s Leader Mr. Ocalan, who offers a new model of life with the democratic nation perspective to the freedom struggle of peoples and women, is undoubtedly the power of both the solution and the way out of the darkness we are being strangled by capitalist modernity today. With this strength and conviction, women and Kurds, the pioneering subjects of democratic modernity, will not once again surrender their fate to any nation-state.
Breaking the isolation and achieving physical freedom is the only way for women and peoples to build a free life
The Kurdish women’s movement, which makes sense of itself, the society and the universe it lives in, and develops how it wants to live through this struggle, defines its truth with free life. A democratic and free life for women and peoples will only be possible through a democratic confederal women’s system that is free from the mentality on which the nation states of capitalist modernity are based. World War 3 is a lawless and immoral war against women, even if it is not called that.
The most concrete indication of this is the torture regime in Imrali, which, together with the international conspiracy, has been shaped and intensified as the sum total of the war policies that have been going on for a quarter of a century, which is rare in history. The genocide policies, in which cultural genocide attacks deepened, the isolation system was tried to be established in all areas of life, and the peoples were condemned to hunger and poverty for the sake of war financing, directly targeted the body, life, labor, culture and freedom claims of women against the female comradeship of Kurdish People’s Leader Mr. Ocalan with the concept of special war. The answer of women, who are condemned to live under violence at every moment, who face hunger and poverty the most, who are removed from their language and culture, who are wanted to be destroyed in the darkness of reaction and feudalism, is clear; isolation will be broken and physical freedom will be achieved through the women’s liberation struggle.
Our Struggle Against Absolute Isolation Will Continue Until Absolute Freedom
With this claim, the uninterrupted line of struggle that has continued since the international conspiracy has rendered the isolation policies fruitless and opened a breach in this system. After 44 months of absolute incommunication in Imralı, the 3 meetings with Kurdish People’s Leader Ocalan were the result of a women-led struggle. Although the negotiations have created great hope and morale in the whole society and women, the fact that the isolation continues has once again shown us that we need to take a determined and continuous line in the struggle. We see the statements of the Peoples’ Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party) delegation and the 7-point declaration as important for the solution of the Kurdish question and the democratization of Turkey. This will and wisdom will not only be the solution to Turkey’s problems, but will also be the basis for a model of free coexistence and free living that will enable us to overcome the global systemic crises. For this reason, it is necessary to evolve the dialogue searches into a permanent solution. The way to do this is to dismantle the genocide system being carried out in Imrali and to ensure the freedom of Kurdish People’s Leader Ocalan.
As TJA women, with the awareness that we are the pioneers of this process, we declare to the press and the public that we have started our move by focusing on the demand for a solution to the Kurdish problem and freedom for Mr. Ocalan. Our move will be based on the construction of a democratic ecological women’s libertarian life, the democratization of Turkey, women’s demand for freedom and equality, and will be organized with the awareness that all these will develop with the breaking of the absolute isolation.
On this basis;
-We will continue our move until we break the isolation on the basis of ensuring the free living and working conditions of the Kurdish People’s Leader Mr. Ocalan,
-We will struggle against the solution perspectives that Kurdish People’s Leader Mr. Ocalan will present during the developing period, considering ourselves responsible,
-We will struggle uninterruptedly for the democratic solution of the Kurdish question and for the constitutional guarantee of the rights of the Kurdish people,
– We will organize a joint struggle around the solution perspective that Kurdish People’s Leader Mr. Ocalan offers to oppressed peoples and women, especially in the Middle East.
– We will grow our cultural values against all kinds of assimilation and genocide policies on Kurdish language and culture,
– We will defend our geography, which is tried to be turned into the center of feudalism and reaction, the children whose future is darkened by the policies of genocide, the youth and women who are targeted by the special war, with the perspective of a democratic society,
– On the basis of the women’s liberation theses and women’s perspectives of the Kurdish People’s Leader, which is the basis of liberation from the genocide of women and cultural genocide; we will develop gender consciousness, gender love, free life and self-defense consciousness,
– Based on all of these principles of struggle, our process will continue until we secure the freedom of Kurdish People’s Leader Mr. Ocalan.
While the magic words JIN JIYAN AZADI, which have become universal and have become the manifesto of women all over the world, call for the organization of a new life, we TJA women, with this philosophy, reiterate our call to all the peoples of Turkey, especially women, and to the democratic public opinion, to participate with their ideas, hearts and actions in the move we have initiated in order for the process to evolve into a ground where everyone will achieve freedom with great gains.
Tevgera Jinên Azad (TJA)
