NEWS CENTER - Emphasizing that they are in solidarity with the women in Afghanistan captured by the Taliban, TJA said: ‘’We Kurdish women, who have experienced the same life in the same geography, hug our Afghan woman friends and send our endless feelings of solidarity.’’

 

With the US withdrawing its army from Afghanistan, where it has been since 2001, and the Taliban’s capture of the capital, Kabul, which continues its advance in the country, there is concern for the safety of women and children. Free Women’s Movement (TJA) also published a written statement titled “We Stand With Afghan Women Against the Great Shame of Imperial Powers”.

 

Drawing attention to the international powers that announced their occupation and colonialist policies in many parts of the world under the name of “We will liberate”, the statement said: ‘’The colonial mentality of the centuries and the nation-state occupations of the last century continue to bring chaos to the peoples of the Middle East. We know that the only ambition of these powers in our geography, which shows the Middle East as a geography that cannot govern itself and cannot solve its problems, is fed by the unchanging very old understanding of colonialism of the West and a mentality that wants to engineer peoples. As a war organization led by the USA, NATO and its component countries think that the world is governed by weapons and power, and they do not stop one step from destroying everything that is humane.’’

 

The following was stated in the statement:

 

‘’Imperial powers, launched in 2001 by US and UK in Afghanistan and saying ‘We will Liberate Afghanistan’, ‘ended the occupation’ 20 years later, leaving a devastated country with the deaths of more than 50000 civilians. Taliban forces, on the other hand, announced that they had taken over the country’s administration with great speed by capturing the capital Kabul.

 

Be ashamed of yourself

 

We hear the voices and cries of women the most in a country that was occupied in a way that could not be a coincidence. All the gains that women have achieved through labor and struggle, one by one, are sacrificed to the desire for power and rule of the occupying West and the reactionary forces that are pro-sharia. Our Afghan woman friends have been saying that they had to quit their jobs, they could not go to school, they could not go out on the streets. Wherever the universal male dominance is, it first targets women and their gains. Neither the ‘too civilized’ West, nor the jihadist groups that do not stop using beliefs for their policies, are giving up on this policy. They are fed from the same place, draw strength from the same root and stand! The lives of women and children are in danger in Afghanistan today. Their gains are in danger. But the world, which has made Afghanistan what it is today, is content to watch what happens as usual. As Afghan women’s rights activist Mahbouba Seraj said; ‘Be ashamed of yourself! All the world, ashame on yourself for what you have done to Afghanistan, this part of the world, for the last 20 years!’

 

It is possible the life that peoples establish with their free will

 

We know that the only solution in the Middle East geography is the will of the peoples. The geography of the Middle East can only be a free, democratic geography with an understanding of government that the peoples will build and determine their own administration. No outside intervention or any policy imposed by force of arms will bring a free and equal life to the peoples. We have seen that this life is possible in a life established by the free will of the peoples, without obeying neither nation-states nor jihadist groups, just like in Rojava.

 

Long live the resistance of Afghan women

 

The peoples of Afghanistan need to decide their own future by their own will. This will, on the other hand, can attain a real level of democracy and equality only on a ground where women are involved, speak out and produce policies. Afghan women, like many women in the Middle East geography, tried to weave their lives with great difficulty, in an atmosphere of war and violence, and they did not give up on women's struggle and labor against all difficulties. We, Kurdish women, who have experienced the same life in the same geography, hug our female friends from Afghanistan and send our endless feelings of solidarity. We will save the Middle East geography from all these mentalities fed by male domination, and we will establish a woman-free life in the whole region. We have the strength and faith to do so! Long live the resistance of Afghan women! Long live our women’s struggle! Jin jiyan azadi!’’