FRANCE – A conference on Jinelojî and the history of Kurdistan was held by Kurdish students and their friends at the University of Bretagne in Lorient, France. Brussels Jineolojî Center activist Sarah Marcha attended the conference which started at 09:00 in the conference hall of the university. Doğan Dağhan, a Kurdistan student studying at the University of Bretagne, told the history of Kurdistan from past to present with his cinevision screening and narration.
In the second part of the conference, Brussels Jinelojî Center activist Sarah Marcha gave a speech to university students on Kurdish women and Jinelojî with a cine-vision. Marcha drew attention to the following points in her speech:
“We are discussing the history of women, we need to know the women’s struggle well as we move from a natural society to a state-based society. The 5,000-year-old struggle of women started in Mesopotamia and affected the whole world. The slogan “Jin Jiyan Azadi” spread to Kurdistan and the whole world as a result of the Kurdish people’s struggle against the imperialist and occupying forces. If women can express themselves and establish their own communes as in the example of Rojava, this shows the value that the Kurdish freedom struggle has given to humanity.
Women’s freedom is the basic principle of the PKK. The PKK is a movement that sees the freedom of Kurdistan as the freedom of women. In this sense, it is necessary to take a good look at which ideology and with which project the women of this movement are walking. By looking at this, it will be understood why PKK women are targeted. Because Sakine, Fidan and Leyla were revolutionary women. They were pioneers, they wanted to change the system. For this reason, women are the target of the system.”
The second session of the conference continued in the form of questions and answers.
