Kurdish Women in Rojava: From Resistance to Reconstruction


In 2010, the imprisoned leader of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan, PKK), Abdullah Öcalan, declared, “The freedom of the Kurdish people can be viewed as inseparably bound to women’s freedom.”1 This statement emphasizes a core tenet in the reinvention of the PKK’s ideology as...

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Main Author: Tank, Pinar (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Brill 2017
In: Die Welt des Islams
Year: 2017, Volume: 57, Issue: 3/4, Pages: 404-428
Further subjects:B Kurdish female fighters
 ideology of Partiya Karkeren Kurdistan (PKK)
 Gender and agency
 Yekîneyên Parastina Jin (YPJ)
 Rojava
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