News Center – The district of Shingal has recently been witnessing escalating tensions against the backdrop of increasing political and military movements targeting the future of the region, amid widespread public fears of the possible return of security threats, especially after growing discussions about plans to rearrange the administrative and security situation in Shingal in ways that local forces consider an attempt to cancel the gains made after the ISIS attacks in 2014.

Amid this landscape, calls are escalating from Kurdish political and women's forces for urgent local and international action to prevent any escalation that could threaten the region's stability or bring back the genocide scenarios previously experienced by Yazidis.

The Kurdistan Women's Communities (KJK) issued a statement today, Monday, February 23, calling for broad diplomatic, political, and societal action aimed at protecting Shingal and recognizing its self-administration, warning of the dangers of what it described as "new genocide schemes" targeting the region.

At the outset of its statement, the organization affirmed that the world is going through an unprecedented phase of "crisis and chaos" since World War I, pointing out that the "nation-state system" has become incapable of continuing, and that the accelerating collapse of the old international order reflects the depth of the structural crisis.

It considered that the Middle East, particularly Kurdistan divided into four parts, has become the center of World War III as a result of the exclusionary policies of nation-states in the region: "The Middle East is going through a fateful moment; either it adopts a democratic solution according to the vision put forward by Leader Öcalan and develops radical solutions to its problems, or current denial policies will continue and it will be doomed to all forms of destruction."

The organization pointed out that what it described as the "second conspiracy of February 15," which began with the attack on Rojava, continues today through a plan targeting Shingal, considering that any military operation or attempt to end the self-administration in the region would constitute a second ISIS attack on Yazidis.

"Attacks on Shingal Constitute Genocide Against Women, Kurds, and Religious Beliefs"

The statement affirmed that Shingal represents "a symbol for the women of the world and for oppressed peoples," and that any new aggression against it would mean "genocide against women, Kurds, and religious beliefs."

The Kurdistan Women's Communities called on the Iraqi government not to be drawn into following the "conspiratorial forces" that seek, according to the statement, to create internal conflict among Kurds, stressing the necessity of adopting strategic peace with the Kurdish people and the Yazidi faith. It also considered that any cooperation with the plan proposed by the Turkish Foreign Minister would be considered "a confiscation of the will of the Iraqi people."

It affirmed that the only way to avoid chaos is to preserve the Kurdish presence within the Iraqi constitutional system and officially recognize the self-administration of Shingal.

The statement addressed an appeal to women and the Kurdish people to confront potential attacks on Shingal in the same manner that attacks on Rojava were confronted, affirming that Kurds and women "will no longer accept policies of cancellation, genocide, or depriving legal status," adding, "No solution can be achieved outside the slogan of 'either freedom or freedom.' We will not allow the repetition of the enslavement imposed on Kurdish women, nor will we allow occupation to become the destiny of our homeland."

The organization also called on all women's organizations and democratic and leftist parties to strengthen solidarity with the women of Shingal and its people, and to prevent the repetition of any form of genocide.

In conclusion of its statement, the Kurdistan Women's Communities called on all political and societal forces to move at diplomatic, political, and defensive levels to ensure the recognition and protection of the self-administration in Shingal, affirming that "the strength of the Kurdish people's resistance has proven successful before and will succeed again."