News Center- The Democratic Women’s Alliance in the MENA region (NADA) has released a statement, condemning the ongoing attacks of the Turkish state and Turkish-backed factions on North and East Syria and calling on women to protect the women’s revolution in Syria.

“With the fall of the oppressive Ba’ath regime in Syria, Syrians of all affiliations, identities, and ethnicities hoped for a future of safety, stability, and freedom, believing the era of division and fragmentation had ended,” the statement said. “However, recent events in some Syrian cities and the subsequent ground and air attacks on various areas in North and East Syria have heralded a catastrophic and tragic reality.”

Criticizing the international silence against the attacks of armed factions, such as Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham and Turkish-backed groups, the statement said, “These armed factions have returned to the same scenario of 2018 and beyond, committing killings, brutal acts, and intensified violence targeting the east of the Euphrates. Once again, forced displacement and mass exodus to escape inevitable death have re-emerged, accompanied by an international silence and a shameful regional apathy that failed to denounce these crimes, with women being the first victims.”

The statement is as follows:

“These areas have witnessed the resurgence of the Syrian National Army, the Free Syrian Army, and remnants of ISIS, all supported by Turkey. This has placed the local population in a new confrontation with a criminal and extremist project aiming to dismantle the Autonomous Administration's democratic experiment, undermine the rights of minorities, and terrorize women through intimidation, killing, and abduction.

‘The people of the region are fighting for their right to life’

In the face of this dangerous project, the people of the region are fighting for their right to life, as guaranteed by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, resisting the tragedy of external interventions—particularly those of Turkey, which funds these factions and militias to destroy this unique experiment. This experiment has empowered women, placing them in leading roles and enabling them for years to liberate the region and free Yazidi women and others from the grip of the criminal ISIS organization. This has transformed them into a beacon and source of inspiration for women across the region and the world.

In light of the dangers threatening the women’s revolution throughout Syria, especially in North and East Syria:

 The NADA Alliance affirms that the Autonomous Administration’s experiment is a means of salvation from the oppression and tyranny long endured by Kurds and other communities in Syria. It warns against the resurgence of ISIS and its attempts to occupy the region, impose its control, and determine the fate of communities that had been living peacefully together.

‘This is a shared and collective cause’

The Alliance calls on all women’s organizations, movements, and activists to strengthen feminist solidarity in support of the women of this region and to protect the nascent women’s revolution. It reiterates that this is a shared and collective cause.

Call on women in MENA region to expose the crimes

The Alliance urges women in North Africa and the Middle East to expose the crimes of the Turkish occupation and its mercenaries and to pressure for an end to Turkey’s blatant intervention in Syria as a fundamental condition to ensuring a safe future for all communities, particularly for women.

The Alliance reminds us that Hay’at Tahrir al-Sham has recently begun imposing repressive laws against women, including the establishment of a “morality police,” excluding women from the public sector, and enforcing authoritarian systems reminiscent of Idlib’s grim reality. This has instilled fear among people, women, and various religious and ethnic minorities.

The Alliance appeals to all international and regional human rights organizations to stand by the people of Syria in their plight. If this plight worsens, it will negatively affect the broader region and Africa.

No to the Ba’ath regime, no to Salafist and jihadist movements!

Yes to the philosophy of “Women, Life, Freedom!”