Before every election, women and their gains are targeted by the government. KCDP Izmir Representative Tülin Osmanoğulları pointed out that 8 women were murdered in just one day and said: "Women are killed because they make decisions about their lives."
Referring to the importance of their struggle in Northern and Eastern Syria, Kongra Star Coordination Spokesperson Remziye Mihemed said: "Women-led life nourishes the perspective of a democratic nation. This is the struggle of all women."
The "impunity" policy of the government and the judiciary increases crimes against women. OHD Women's Commission member Yasemin Soydan said: "An approach that protects the perpetrator is being taken."
Pointing out that Abdullah Ocalan's paradigm is "to keep each other alive", politician Selma Irmak pointed to the system in Northern and Eastern Syria and said: "This system has now become hope for humanity."
Women who take part in cultural and artistic activities at BEKSAV and Jin Art will take to the streets with their melodies on March 8 against all kinds of violence.
Stating that they fought against attacks on both women and their lands on the basis of self-defense, YPJ Spokesperson Ruksen Mihemed said: “The women's revolution was won not only with weapons but also with an intellectual infrastructure. We will not step back."
Relatives of prisoners who have been carrying out the Justice Watch in Amed for 90 days said: "If Abdullah Ocalan is free, our children will also be free."
TJA's "Towards freedom with Jin, Jîyan, Azadî'" campaign will be completed on March 8. Nevriye Çur, one of TJA activists, said: "The campaign will end, but our struggle will always continue."
Agricultural worker women, struggling to survive against inequality and labour exploitation, wanted their voices to be heard in the March 8 protests and events that they could not participate in.
Women journalists, who intervened against masculinity in the media 12 years ago with JINHA, institutionalized their organization with the Mezopotamya Women Journalists Association. Journalists Beritan Canözer and Roza Metîna stated that they continue their struggle to completely change the masculine mentality and language.
Sevde Unal, who was arrested for acting in self-defense against the man who harassed her and threatened to rape her, said: "Knowing self-defense makes us stronger. Self-defense is a right, it cannot be prevented or judged."
Rengin Onuk, who returned to her evacuated village at the foot of Cûdî Mountain, did not give up production on her land despite the words of those around her saying "you can't do it".
TJA sent cards to imprisoned women as part of March 8.
Nidal Halef al-Nawasra, one of the Palestinian women who welcomed March 8 this year under war conditions, said: "Women are literally defying their pain in order to create life out of nothing."
8 women were murdered by men in the last 24 hours. KCDP called for action to all women.