NEWS CENTER - Mesopotamia Women Journalists Platform shared its message for March 8 International Women's Day and said: "Resistence makes the women more beautufil, changes the world and it remains for us to note it in history."

 

Mesopotamia Women Journalists Platform's written statement for March 8 International Women's Day is as follows: 

 

"We the women journalist say that 'We are here, we are always together' with the strength and the courage we get from the women, despite the gender genocide we face, with hope and faith.

 

Just like the women who shouted out loud against the government and the male dominated world that is disturbed by the laughter of the women and confide them into their homes, calling them marginals if they speak up or calling them 'unchaste' if they remain silent, we the women in journalism tried to reveal the truth in this past year.

 

As the women who believes that the society will be free if women are free, we tried to be there where ever women are standing up for themselves during the pandemic from Argentina to India, from İzmir to Batman.

 

We handed our microphones to the mother who was beaten in Batman, to İpek, to Emine, to Melek, to Berjin, to Asya and to thousands of women instead of handing our microphones to women who said 'They would speak up on time if they weren't 'unchaste' and we will continue to do so. We are saying that one more time that we are here on the streets and we are together in the face of those who try to ruin our lives everyday, remembering that March 8 marks the day of our rebellion and our anger.

 

We know that no woman's story will be left unfinished and a woman can change anything if she wants. We have witnessed this many times and wrote about those stories every day. Resistence makes the women more beautufil, changes the world and it remains for us to note it in history.

 

As the Mesopotamia Women Journalists Platform, while commemorating the women we have lost on March 8, we underline one more time that their dreams are our dreams, none of us is alone creating a better world and salut those who fight against darkness with light and faith."