TJA activist: Women will bring spring to Rojava

2025-01-22 12:51:34


	 

	  

	 

	WAN - Commenting on the attacks against the life model in Rojava, TJA activist Ayşe Minaz said, ‘They terrorised 80-year-old mothers’ self-defence. However, a spark spread all over the world and a women's revolution took place. I believe that the women there will bring spring, status and identity to Rojava.’

	 

	After the collapse of the 61-year-old Baathist regime in Syria, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS) took over the country. Since then, the civil unrest in the country has deepened, while Turkey and its affiliated Syrian National Army (SMO) continue to attack Northern and Eastern Syria. While the attacks are aimed at destroying the Rojava Revolution, which was built under the leadership of women, calls for national unity against the attacks continue.

	 

	On 19 January, all parties and organisations carrying out political activities in Rojhilat came together under the leadership of the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) to analyse and interpret the situation in Rojhilat in the context of new developments in the Middle East. The organisations and parties came together at the KNK headquarters in Brussels and made plans by establishing a commission of organisations.

	 

	Tevgera Jinên Azad (TJA) activist Ayşe Minaz made evaluations on the attacks.

	 

	‘It was women who led this revolution’

	 

	Stating that Rojava was a region within the Syrian Arab Kingdom in the 1960s, Ayşe Minaz noted that Kurds were excluded. Ayşe Minaz said, "Especially Kurdish women were imposed anonymity there. In the census conducted at that time, nearly three hundred thousand Kurds were de-identified and ignored, and there was a colonial order that developed naturally. This situation continued in this way until 2012. With the outbreak of internal turmoil in Syria in 2012, the flower of a revolution was planted there. The beginning of a revolutionary spring took shape in Rojava. 

	 

	Today, it has begun to take its nuclei. Everything that took shape there happened in front of the eyes of the whole world. The barbaric ISIS gangs carried out attacks, especially against women, in front of the eyes of the world. The people there pioneered a revolution by forming their own self, administration and reality. In fact, it was women who led this revolution. Because women became the subjects of a new revolution and life outside the social life imposed there. A women's revolution that aroused excitement all over the world took place."

	 

	'What should we women do for this revolution?

	 

	Expressing that women also experienced great difficulties in the women's revolution, Ayşe Minaz said that the biggest difficulty was that women established a public order order in order to protect their lands. Ayşe Minaz noted that women developed a self-governance economy in order to create their economy and said, "They realised the communal economy. They introduced the co-presidency system for equal representation. In the process from 2012 to today, a women's revolution has taken place that has provided the women of the world with a serious motivation to resist. Today, the eyes and ears of the whole world and all women are there. A women's revolution is taking place right next to us. What should we women do for this revolution? What can we do? At this point, I think it is necessary to carry out studies to improve ourselves."

	 

	‘Rojava revolution has inspired the whole world’

	 

	Underlining that women in Rojava have started to reweave life based on a democratic, ecological and women's libertarian paradigm, Ayşe Minaz said "The Rojava Revolution, beyond being a product of the Kurdish people's struggle for self-determination, has inspired revolutionary movements around the world by offering a libertarian social model. This women-led revolution has taken its place in history as a symbol of the struggle for freedom, equality and solidarity against oppressive systems."

	 

	‘A spark spread all over the world’

	 

	Ayşe Minaz mentioned that there were also nation-states that terrorised and ignored the revolutionary process and said, "They terrorised the self-defence of 80-year-old mothers. However, a spark spread all over the world and it became a women's revolution. I believe that the women there will bring spring, status and identity to Rojava."