Member of the Kongra Star Coordination in Lebanon, Netewî Xemgîn, denounced the arrest of Leyla Güven, and said: "If the Turkish state today cannot bear women's will under the leadership of Leyla Güven, it is because she follows the path of Sara, ZÎlan, Leyla and Bêritan, and the approach of women's freedom."
In conjunction with the 16th anniversary of founding the Kongra Star, Fouza Yousef said that the KS led the advancement of women, and also called on the United Nations to send a fact-finding commission to the occupied areas in northern and eastern Syria, "where atrocious crimes are committed."
Afrin Yazidi women called on the international community to put an end to the violations of the Turkish state against their religious sanctities, and to stop practicing ISIS methods against women, forcing them to abandon their religion.
The spokeswoman for the Kongra Star, Ramziyya Mohamed, indicated that the second phase of the "No to Occupation and Extermination, Together We Protect Women and Life" campaign is scheduled to be launched on January 17th, calling on all women's organizations to join the campaign, stand against all practices against women, escalate their struggle and protect the gains that have been achieved.
The Kongra Star has been struggling since 16 years, bringing about a qualitative shift in the reality of women in north and east Syria, motivating them to organize themselves, appreciate their energies, and serve their society.
The deputy head of the Future Syria Party Council in the city of Raqqa, Zuleikha Abdi, explained that the arrest of the struggler Leyla Guven by the Turkish authorities aims to undermine any hope for a democratic and peaceful solution to the Kurdish issue.
The Hardworking Woman Committee has called on the international community to take it's responsibility in reference to arrest of parliamentarian Laila Guven, stressing that '' it is a breach against freedom and human rights''.
Zelal Amed one of the companions of Sakîne Cansiz, Fîdan Dogan and Leyla Şaylemez said about the struggle of the three martyrs, "They are the bridge of women's struggle, freedom and identity, and they carried women's struggle and revolution into the 21st century."
Women in the eastern rural Dei Ezzor voiced their rejection to violations against women by the Turkish Occupation Forces and the affiliated mercenary groups, attacks on Ain Issa condemned.
Seven years ago, Turkish intelligence assassinated of one of the founders of the women's liberation struggle, and the Kurdistan Workers' Party, Sakina Cansiz "Sarah", in the French capital Paris, and the representative of the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) Fidan Dogan " Rojbin", and the member of the Kurdish Youth Movement in Europe, Laila Shaylmez, Ronahi.
On the eighth anniversary of the Paris massacre, the Young Women's Union in the Euphrates region organized a memorial ceremony for the strugglers, by lighting candles in front of their pictures, in the Free Women's Square in the center of Kobane city.
Journalist Saria Baran said that the prison sentence issued by the Turkish authorities against Leyla Guven is an extension of a comprehensive scheme of the Turkish state targeting women in particular, and indicated that Leyla Guven is a pioneering struggler.
