11 years after the triple femicide in Paris on three Kurdish revolutionary women Sakine Cansız (Sara), Leyla Şaylemez (Ronahî) and Fidan Doğan (Rojbîn), carried out by the Turkish intelligence (MİT), the Kurdish women’s movement still demands justice and truth. The triple femicide on our comrades showed us that the state wages a particular war against (revolutionary) women. State violence and conflicts affect women, minorities and oppressed people differently.

Patriarchal violence and femicide are not limited to intimate partner violence or domestic violence. Violence against women also happens on a systematic level, e.g. in wars and conflicts or in prisons. How are state violence, wars, conflicts and patriarchal violence/femicide connected?

This question will be discussed with our panelists:

- Mahtab Mahboub, feminist activist and translator, also the co-spokesperson of Iranian Democratic Platform

- Fidaa Al Zaanin, Palestinian feminist activist and a gender studies researcher

- Soreti Kadir, Oromo activist and storyteller

- Nilüfer Koç, spokeswoman for the Commission on Foreign Relations of the Kurdistan National Congress (KNK)

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