News Center - “We believe that these unjust military operations were the beginning of a genocidal campaign against the Kurds. These operations were launched on the anniversary of the Armenian Genocide in 1915, on the day that US President Biden officially recognized the Armenian Genocide. We see the current war as an effort to destroy our people,” KNK female members said in the statement.

The statement is as follows:

“On April 23, after the meeting between US President Biden and Turkish President Erdoğan, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan openly took permission from NATO, the EU, and the US to attack the Kurds once again. As Erdoğan and his advocates talk about a struggle between the PKK and Turkey, we know very well that today's conflicts are only the last episode of the Turkish state's longstanding war against the Kurdish people.

This is a war against our people's right to exist, and it has always taken place for years. When so-called Islamic State (ISIS) terrorist group took control of most of the Syrian and Iraqi territories and spread in The Middle East in 2014, neither NATO nor the United States protected the Kurdish people and women in Kurdistan.”

Stating that the Turkish state poses a threat to women, particularly to Kurdish women, the KNK female members noted that femicides have become a basic policy of the Turkish state beyond its borders.

The KNK members recalled the systematic war crimes committed especially in the occupied areas of Rojava, “As the Turkish-backed forces in Syria have been encouraged to loot, and rape, the situation of women in the areas occupied by Turkey in Syria is horrifying.”

“The Turkish state's expansionist occupation policy openly violates the principles of the NATO. We urge NATO member states to take steps to stop Turkey from violating the norms and constitution of the NATO.”