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Communal life is built around women. Where women are strong, society is strong. <\/strong><\/p>\n

As an answer to the genocide of August 3rd<\/sup> 2014 and in order to prevent further massacres, \u00cazid\u00ee women have started to organize. At the beginning, in 2015, they acted as a women\u2019s group for supporting and educating women with the goal to strengthen the women\u2019s free will. After more women had come together, they widened their organization. On September 20th<\/sup>, 2016, the foundation of the Freedom’s Movement of \u00cazid\u00ee Women (TAJ\u00ca) was officially proclaimed in a congress. It unites \u00cazid\u00ee women from all ages and different places in the \u015eengal region. Based on the slogans \u201cFree women, Free society\u201d and \u201cJin, Jiyan, Azad\u00ee\u201d, TAJ\u00ca works on the basis of the thoughts and philosophy of Abdullah \u00d6calan and his paradigm of Democratic Confederalism and women\u2019s freedom. It sees the liberation of women as the basis for the liberation of the whole society and is therefore at the forefront of the resistance in \u015eengal.<\/p>\n

TAJ\u00ca perceives the equality of men and women, democracy among all peoples and the protection of nature as fundamental. It works for a society, which is independent from state structures, by building its own political, economic, social, defense and legal system in all areas of life. Education and women\u2019s academies are considered as an important basis to strengthen the free will and organization of women.<\/p>\n

TAJ\u00ca recognizes the Women\u2019s Protection Units in \u015eengal (Yek\u00eeney\u00ean Jin\u00ean \u015eingal\u00ea \u2013 YJ\u015e) as its defense force for the protection of \u00cazid\u00ee women and the whole society. It gives highest priority to the liberation of \u00cazid\u00ee women that have been enslaved by Daesh. In cooperation with the SDF (Syrian Democratic Forces), the Ministry of Women of North and East Syria (NES), the Mala \u00cazid\u00eeyan (\u201cHouse of the \u00cazid\u00ees\u201d) in NES and the \u00cazid\u00ee Women Support League in \u015eengal, around 1.500 \u00cazid\u00ee women have so far been liberated from the hands of Daesh jihadists and reunited with their families.<\/p>\n

On Education<\/strong><\/p>\n

Education is crucial for a free life, free thought and free will. TAJ\u00ca therefore considers the field of education of women as one of its major and fundamental duties. Through education, women learn about their faith, their history, their society as well as about their enemies. It is essential for women to know that patriarchy and its sexist mentality is the root of all injustice, oppression and domination. Based on this knowledge women have to develop their own opinions and learn to make decisions against male domination, concerning all parts of their lives.<\/p>\n

On Organization<\/strong><\/p>\n

Without organization, neither country nor life can be liberated. Organization is especially important for women. The patriarchal system and male power have always tried to exclude women from social organization in order to bring them under their control. It has tried to separate women from each other and leave them alone under male oppression. As no one can become free by oneself, one of the patriarchy\u2019s biggest achievements is to prevent the organization of women.<\/p>\n

Therefore, becoming organized, getting to know each other, not staying alone, and developing a free will are fundamental necessities for women\u2019s liberation. Women who become organized stand united against the system of male domination, tyranny of the state, gangs like Daesh and the fascist mentality.<\/p>\n

That\u2019s why, there is a great need for \u00cazid\u00ee women to get organized. When women fight in an organized way on their lands and based on their culture, that has risen through thousand of years, they become free. When women become free, they become beautiful and women who become beautiful are being loved. As TAJ\u00ca, we consider this principle essential for a free and equal society.<\/p>\n

TAJ\u00ca organizes itself in the form of communes and establishes self-governing women\u2019s councils throughout \u015eengal. It established its own committees, such as the committees for education, economy, culture and arts, diplomacy and health. It furthermore builds up relations with women\u2019s organizations of other ethnicity and religions including Kurds, Arabs, Assyrians, and Chaldean Catholics.<\/p>\n

On Self-defense<\/strong><\/p>\n

Organized women can achieve their goals through struggle. This struggle is waged under all conditions and circumstances. It is directed against all forms of domination, including mental, social and political domination, oppression in the name of marriage, beatings, murders, insults, rape of women\u2019s bodies, disrespect of women\u2019s will, and any other despicable behavior, that aims to make woman worthless. The organized struggle of women can defeat all of these forms of domination. Every woman has the right to defend herself against violence, be it at home or in public, and against all other attacks on the free will and life of women.<\/p>\n

Just as every living being in nature has its own self-defense, it is also the natural right of women to protect themselves. The self-defense against the mindset of male domination through a free will as well as the self-defense against all kinds of massacres, murder, assimilation and femicide through a strong organization are essential for women. A free and democratic life can only be established with the protection of your homeland, your society, your soil, your community, your religion and your culture.<\/p>\n

On Struggle<\/strong><\/p>\n

TAJ\u00ca fights against the structure and mentality of the oppressive and authoritarian patriarchal system while rooting itself in the principles of women\u2019s freedom. Furthermore, it resists against sexist attacks by the dominant male mentality as well as by dominant states and organizations. Women are attacked in the family and on the streets. They are suppressed and get banished. They face violence and so called \u201chonor-killings\u201d. TAJ\u00ca confronts this violence directed against women within families, society and at work.<\/p>\n

For the self-defense against all these attacks, it is essential that \u00cazid\u00ee women struggle based on a free thought and free will. They must be trained, educated and organized in all fields of life. Creating democratic, free and equal organizations for women must be the basis for all other forms of social organization. TAJ\u00ca is founded on this basis. It participates in all social activities, be it in the fields of politics, economic, culture, diplomacy, law, education, communication or health. This fight is necessary for the protection and freedom of the \u00cazid\u00ee faith, community and homeland. It is necessary to break the history of 74. genocides and femicides (ferman).<\/p>\n

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It has been said that history has always been written by the dominant male forces. But if you ask the
\ngods they will tell you that history can be found in the reality of \u00cazid\u00ee women who beautify
\nthemselves with the rays of the sun. They will tell you that from Mitra to Xat\u00fbna Fexran and from Zer\u00eefa Os\u00ea to \u015eeh\u00eed B\u00ear\u00eevan \u015eengal\u00ee resistance, freedom and survival has never stopped on the soil of Mesopotamia, the Cradle of Humankind.\u00a0 Until the right history will be written, the resistance of women will continue to arise like fire.<\/p>\n

We would like to introduce the truth about the resistance and the reality of the \u00cazid\u00ee women through this website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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