Women in tent cities get organised in the spirit of YPJ

Women in tent cities get organised in the spirit of YPJ.

ANF - URFA17.12.2014 13:30:45

Women from Kobanê, who had to take flight to Suruç following the attacks of the ISIS gangs on the town, are now organising themselves under women's assemblies in the tent cities they are staying, and continuing here their works they started to organise in the wake of the revolution in Rojava.

Women from Kobanê have gathered together in 5 tent cities in Suruç and formed women assemblies in order to discuss their problems and produce solutions.

Feyziye Abdi, the co-chair of Law and Justice Assembly of Kobanê Canton commented on women’s organisation under the assemblies, saying that the children and the elderly are the most affected victims of the war, and that they formed women assemblies to strengthen the organisation of women and to find solutions to the problems they are facing.

Abdi said YPG and YPJ forces took measures in order for the civilians not to be harmed in the war and added that they came to North Kurdistan after they took part in the fight for some time. Abdi said the civilians were evacuated from the town in the face of massacre threat, stressing that the women have undergone great difficulties while leaving their houses. Abdi added that the people of the North Kurdistan have mobilised in solidarity with the people of Kobanê and have sheltered them in five tent cities in the centre of Suruç.

Abdi said the works for forming women's assemblies have been started to enable women to discuss their own problems and to produce their own solutions. “The women produce hand made things for the children in order to make life easy for the moment and to take part in production. We are now trying the form the basis for these works in the other tent cities. We are trying to build a common life in the tent cities through the women's assemblies”, she said.

Abdi said the prior work of the women at the moment is to provide education for children in the tent cities. “As much as trying to solve the problems of the women in the assemblies, we also try to solve the education problem of the children”, said Abdi adding that the women have taken the initiative to provide psychological support and education for the children.

Abdi said that in the 5 tent cities, schools have been opened now and the teachers are mostly women. She said there is an obvious change in the psychology of the children in comparison to first days, adding that the opening of the schools made children more motivated and happier. Abdi added that the people are standing strong by struggling and bringing solutions to their problems.

Abdi also commented on the situation of the people from Kobanê who are staying at the tent city of the state-run AFAD, saying that they haven't been able to perform works for those people yet. Abdi stressed that although there is a school in the AFAD tent city, the education provided here is not in their mother tongue Kurdish. Abdi noted that they have taken some initiative to form the same women assemblies and work for the children in the AFAD tent city as well.

Abdi concluded her words as follows: “The women have once again proved that they have reclaimed the struggle of YPJ everywhere they went and undertaken a same kind of struggle. The women will continue to take the historic struggle of YPJ as their basis to strengthen themselves”.