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Open letter to the women of the world from Leyla Güven

"All the women of the world need to be saying enough to fascism, enough to dictatorship!"

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Kurdish people demonstrate in Rotterdam for the liberation of Abdullah Ocalan and other political prisoners in Turkey, on January 05, 2019. Utrecht Robin/ Press Association. All rights reserved.

Dear Women,

Despite our geographies being split by thousands of miles, I'm glad that you have heard my voice. Even when we are from very different corners of the world, as women, we have always recognised each other. As Hypatia says, “none of us look like one-another, but the things that unite us are greater than the things that separate us”. We are all sisters. The thing that unites us the most is our freedom struggle, our resistance against all kinds of fascism, dictatorship and the patriarchal mentality.