4 women in dark green uniforms standing on a rock peak with mountains in the background. The women each hold a lit torch with the fourth woman holding her torch up as it is being lit by another

YJA Star (Free Women’s Troops) Central Headquarters Command made a written statement on the occasion of March 8, International Working Women’s Day.

Our uninterrupted struggle for women's freedom, from Saras to Zîlans, from Bêrîtans to Doğa Viyans, created great gains for women and became the expression that a society whose women are free will also be free. In this sense, women transforming the areas they are in into positions of resistance means the end of the rapist masculine mentality. The way to do this is to organize strongly. Where a single woman remains unorganized, women will continue to be subjected to violence, rape, oppression and exploitation.