Women on Protest for 3 Politician Women Killed in Silopi

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Women for Peace Initiative (BİKG) have demonstrated for the three politician women killed in Silopi  

On their silent protest in Galatasaray Square, women have carried banners saying “Pakize, Sêvê, Fatma, we are sorry and furious. Lay guns down, give peace voice” and the photographs of  Seve Demir, Fatma Uyar and Pakize Nayır, all killed in Silopi.

In their statement read out loud on the demonstration they have re-expressed their demands of laying down the weapons and resuming the dialogue and negotiation process immediately.

Noting that they would continue their peace watch, they have announced that the next peace watch would take place on January 10, Sunday at 7 p.m. in front of the Eminönü Ferry Port in Üsküdar.

“How come their bodies became unrecognizable?”

In their statement BİKG has pointed out that 79 of all who had been killed since the beginning of the last period of armed conflicts including Ankara and Suruç massacres had been women.  

The women have explained that they got to know Seve Demir, Fatma Uyar and Pakize Nayır on their visits to Cizre and Silopi as the curfew had been lifted. They have asked, how come the bodies of the three women have become unrecognizable after they had been injured?

“We can’t stand losing our friends every day, who had welcomed us in October in Cizre and Silopi, hosted us in their homes and with whom we had discussions and conversations on a different life.

“Pakize, Sêvê and Fatma were well known women doing active politics. That is why they have been killed. We continue living in a country where people are getting brutally murdered alone for such reasons. In a  place where doing politics is made so impossible, how and against what can opposition be possible? Dissenting and standing up for different opinions means living face to face with death.”

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“Lay down arms”

Re-expressing their demands of laying down the weapons and launching the dialogue and negotiation process immediately, the women have asked; “If not, with whom could we discuss on all the happenings and peace?”.

“We would like to repeat that we will not forget Pakize, Sêvê and Fatma with whom we have talked eye to eye. We know that showing the women doing politics as targets and thus getting them killed in the recent months has not been a coincidence. This is the result of the rage against the resistance of women.

“We stand up and object to this war and this suppression practice everywhere we are. The resistance of us, women, for a fair and true peace will never be broken and we will not give up defending our lives”. (BK/DG)