STRUGGLES

Ifyou're somebody who is living there and you're facing the most savage force in the world,
you have to pick up the weapon that they pick up to defend yourself..
Ofcourse, the Kurdish people have a strong will to resist but ifonly we lived in a world where
we could do it with civil disobedience or having debates. Unfortunately we’re living in the
Middle East and that's not possible.
We want to live in a world where we don’t have to pick up a weapon. I hope that one day
people won’t go to war any more. I hope that the resistance ofthe YPJ will bring a day where
people can live in peace and have a life without war.
voices from the struggles for freedom in bakur
Ultimately Kurdish women have become a source ofhope for women
around the world. They have been raped and killed. They have had their
existence completely denied and they are the ones resisting. Now they are
the hope. And it makes us happy to make news about the people doing this
resistance.
CW: What can people outside ofKurdistan do in solidarity?
One thing that I want is for all the people who are oppressed in the Middle East and who are
forced to live a life ofwar to one day stand together and come back to their real roots. I want
to see this outside ofKurdistan, too.
Ultimately the terrorism and violence didn’t come from this place, it came
from the west. People in the west need to ask themselves what to do about
that.
JINHA journalist Rojda Oğuz was imprisoned in
January 2016. Photo by JINHA.
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