DİYARBAKIR - PIA Vice President Menice Gülmez, who defined Lausanne as "destruction", stated that women will rebuild the new century and said: "Women will liberate these lands."

 

Tevgera Jinên Azad (Free Women's Movement-TJA) organized a workshop titled “Women are discussing Lausanne in the centennial year” on the centennial of the Treaty of Lausanne, which divided Kurdistan between Iraq, Iran, Syria and Turkey. During the workshop held in Amed(Diyarbakır) on the way to the centennial of Lausanne, "The effect of minority languages policy in the Treaty of Lausanne on Kurdish languages and dialects", "Kurds and Kurdistan after Lausanne", "The effects of the transformation in Armenian education institutions after Lausanne on the Armenian identity and language", “The situation of the Assyrians after the Treaty of Lausanne” and “The situation of the Alevis after the Treaty of Lausanne” were discussed. Menice Gülmez, Deputy Chairperson of the People and Freedom Party (PIA), who attended the workshop, evaluated the results of Lausanne for Kurds and women.

 

WOMEN'S OBJECTION TO LAUSANNE

 

Emphasizing the importance of the workshop, Gülmez said. "Women from different cultures and ethnicities shared their experiences. Women objected to the policies of assimilation and ignorance imposed on the peoples by the Treaty of Lausanne. Such efforts led by Kurdish women, who have suffered the most in this region of blood, revan, and oppression in the Middle East, aim to compensate for the damage done by Lausanne. Steps will be taken to raise awareness of the people by encouraging more people to peace. This will be an example. It is necessary to emphasize that in future studies, women will have their efforts, there can be no peace without women, and an effort without women will not go one step further. From now on, women will be in it.”

 

'WOMEN WILL LIBERATE THESE LANDS'

 

Stating that women were the most affected by the wars, Gülmez said: “Women have never been involved in the destruction created by the masculine mentality in Lausanne and in a treaty they have built for themselves. But the woman today is not the woman of those days. She is the woman who has suffered from this destruction for a hundred years. In the next period, it is the conscious women, the struggling women, who will build the destruction caused by Lausanne and create a new peace process, a new formation process. Women will liberate these lands with new construction in the next hundred years.”

 

MA / Eylem Akdağ