No society can be free without women\u2019s freedom.<\/p>\n
On 16 September, the fourth anniversary of the martyrdom of Jina Amini is commemorated. Jina Amini, who was killed in Tehran by the morality police of the Iranian regime, is remembered today not only as a victim, but as a historic turning point in women\u2019s struggle against a patriarchal state system.<\/p>\n
Women\u2019s sources and feminist activists affirm that Jina, through her silence and resistance to the imposition of mandatory hijab, demonstrated that women were no longer willing to be instruments in the hands of patriarchal politics.<\/p>\n
Following her assassination, millions of women took to the streets of Tehran, Saqqez, Sina, and cities across Iran and Kurdistan. By cutting their hair, they not only symbolically severed their ties with the dominant system, but also expressed, in a radical political act, their message: \u201cWe will no longer surrender our bodies, our lives, and our decisions to the state.\u201d<\/p>\n
Moreover, the slogan \u201cWoman, Life, Freedom,\u201d which emerged from Jina\u2019s grave and became the anthem of the revolution, demonstrated that this slogan is also the ideology put into practice by the Women\u2019s Protection Units in Rojava, through tremendous sacrifices and the blood of women martyrs such as Ar\u00een M\u00eerkan and Avesta Xab\u00fbr in Koban\u00ea and throughout North and East Syria.<\/p>\n
The Women\u2019s Protection Units, as an army of women, have demonstrated that women\u2019s freedom is not achieved through demands alone, but also through self-defence, organisation, and the building of an alternative system.<\/p>\n
Therefore, the relationship between Jina and the Women\u2019s Protection Units is not a distant emotional connection, but an ideological and political unity within one revolution\u2014a revolution that declares: \u201cWithout women\u2019s freedom, no society can be free.\u201d Through their sacrifices, women have become a symbol of this truth, while the Women\u2019s Protection Units (YPJ) have become the guarantor of protecting this truth on the ground.<\/p>\n
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