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Kurdistan
With an estimated population over 40 million, Kurds are often referred to as the “largest stateless group in the world”.
For comparison, if Greater Kurdistan were an independent state, its population would be around the 37th-largest in the world, bigger than that of Canada and similar to that of a nation like Spain.
OVER 50 PARTY POLICY -KURDISTAN
KURDISTAN / SYRIA, TURKEY, IRAQ, IRAN
• Babe to Over 50 party in government would support the borders of reinstated country of Kurdistan to stretch from the Mediterranean to the Persian Gulf as stated by Kurds themselves, including Adana (on Mediterranean coastline) if that is the Kurds’ wish.
• Support nation of Kurdistan only if full women’s equality and
co-chairs of political jobs,
1 Man, 1 Woman,
with full rights in policies for men and women.
Kurds
greatest women's equality
in middle east
RE-UNIFICATION OF KURDISTAN
As From Babe to Over 50s party would be the greatest Suffragette, Women's Issues government in UK history, then Kurdistan's misery left from British Empire, of the nation of Kurdistan torn apart and parts of it handed over to neighbouring countries by British Rule, is the one part of foreign policy of an From Babe to Over 50s party in parliament, by your kind votes, at next general election.
Background:
- It was the British Empire that tore apart Kurdistan and gave land away to neighbouring countries.
- Kurdish tribes have lived in their part of Anatolia (part of present day Turkey) since at least 1,000 B.C., twenty centuries before the first Turks arrived there.
- Turkish people are descendants of
Central Asian
Turkic people.
WHERE WOULD
KURDISTAN BE?
Kurdistan (not yet officially existing again) is usually described as comprising the four overlapping regions of :
- south-eastern Turkey,
- northern Iraq,
- north-western Iran, and
- northern Syria.
WHERE KURDS RULE THEMSELVES HAVE HIGHEST WOMEN'S EQUALITY
..."Women’s Protection Units (YPJ) in northern Syria, an area that many Kurds refer to as “Rojava”...
..."the YPJ’s wider philosophy known as “democratic confederalism” has tenets devoted to:
- promoting women’s equality,
- protecting ethnic minorities,
- preserving the environment –
what YPJ calls “social ecology” – - and combatting the economic inequities found in unregulated capitalism.
- YPJ's members have also formed women-only organisations, and
- insist that half of all government funds are spent on women’s projects.
- the YPJ has made child marriage illegal to protect young girls,
- outlawed the policy of men taking multiple wives, and
- established ways for women to report abuse by male family members or husbands, with such abuse carrying severe criminal penalties."...
KURD WOMEN CO-CHAIR SYSTEM
The focus on women also led to a policy called the “co-chair” system, in terms of which it is law in YPJ-controlled areas that all positions of authority are held by a woman and a man with equal collaborative power.
When negotiating with other governments..."they are sitting down with women and men in equal proportions.
As a result, women in Kurdish areas of Syria – now officially called the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria (AANES) – hold 50 per cent of all official positions, which would make YPJ's government perhaps
the
most gender equal in the world.
Source: https://www.gcsp.ch/global-insights/how-kurdish-women-are-transforming-and-democratising-middle-east
Background - Example 2023
..."WHERE LEARNED POLICY TO INCREASE WOMEN'S RIGHTS FOR OUR PARTY.
Kurds are a stateless people as victims of British Empire, with highest women's rights, far above ours. Sadly being wiped out.
..."A revolution has been underway in Rojava, Northeast Syria since 2012, based on the ideas of women’s freedom, grassroots democracy, and an ecological society. The Turkish state is opposed to this revolution, and has been trying to destroy it since it began."...
..."The Turkish military assassinated Yusra Darwish ... in Northeast Syria, on 20th June (2023). Missiles fired from a Turkish drone killed Yusra, who was also a prominent member of the Kurdish women’s movement"...
..."The drone strike also killed Leyman Shiweish, Yusra’s deputy co-chair"...
..."This is the misogynist face of Turkey, which tries to intimidate women who are politically active in the Autonomous Administration in North & East Syria."...
— Kongra Star Women's Movement Rojava (@starrcongress) June 20, 2023
..."This is by no means the first time the Turkish state has used assassination attacks against the Kurdish women’s movement. Zehra Berkel, Hebûn Mele Xelîl, and Emina Weysi were members of the Kongra Star women’s federation. The Turkish military murdered them in another drone attack in 2020. Last year Nagîhan Akarsel, co-editor of Jineoloji (women's) magazine, was assassinated in an attack on her house in Suleimaniye in Iraqi Kurdistan."...