DİYARBAKIR -TJA supported the struggle of Polish women for the right to abortion by sending a letter. The letter said that the voice rising from Warsaw is also rising in Amed.

 

Tevgera Jinên Azad (TJA-Free Woman’s Movement) sent a letter to Polish women to support their struggle for the right to abortion. In the letter, it was stated that the male-dominated systems that forced women to disappear and obey by alienating them from other women and their own bodies, attacked women's gains.

 

The letter contained the following statements:

 

 “On July 30, the Polish government asked the Constitutional Court to examine whether the Istanbul Convention is in conformity with its constitution. Then, the decision of the Constitutional Court to ban abortion right almost completely shows that the attacks on the female bodies are an attempt to place the attacks on a legal basis. Meanwhile, the high court lost its legitimacy for women after its decision. For exactly this reason, when the bill prohibiting the right to abortion in 2016 was heard, women flocked into the streets of Poland and that protest called the Black Monday resistance, the Polish women took the streets once again and started a new resistance to force the right-conservative government trying to reclaim their gains to step back once again.

 

We continue to struggle

 

We know that they try to abolish women's freedom spaces under the pretext of protecting family and religious sensitivities; that they want to leave women insecure by politicizing the law; that they force women to obey through detentions and arrests. We know that because we are experiencing the same. There should be no social equivalent of any family or belief in which women are left without value, words, or inaction; this is why we struggle and we are in solidarity with each other. We keep struggling for existence without separating our language from our culture because our bodies, languages and cultural diversity are parts of our identity.

 

The voice rising from Warsaw rises in Amed too

 

Like in all countries in the world, in Turkey and Poland, the laws are reviewed against women. Knowing that thousands of harassments and rapes cases are absolved from guilt under “with consent mask” and that women are left without legal assurance, we also know that for women who live and carry themselves to the present, the right to abortion is vital for women without saying “but”.  The voice rising from Warsaw is echoing in Istanbul, Amed, Tehran and  Sulaymaniyah.

 

Polish women's struggle is our struggle too

 

Women’s struggle in Poland is also our struggle. The right being taken ‘stolen’ from women is also our right to abortion. Making decisions about our bodies is our right. They are trying to put women into houses, to turn women into incubators by detaching them from production, life and the struggle for freedom. Against the patriarchy wanting to enslave the children we give birth to, like us, we say ‘we will give birth to as many children as we want and will keep our struggle for freedom.’’’