The “National Solidarity, Brotherhood and Democracy Commission,” established in parliament to address the Kurdish question, is meeting with families who lost their relatives in times of conflict. The commission today will host the Saturday Mothers, the Peace Mothers, and several human rights organizations to share their perspectives on the process.
Speaking on behalf of the Peace Mothers’ struggle, Kania Süsin said that mothers have maintained an honorable stance and that all their demands must be considered to prevent disruption of the peace process. She described the Peace Mothers, as those who have endured the heaviest suffering, as “the strongest pillar of the peace bridge,” and underlined their determination to continue struggling for a lasting peace.
Abdullah Öcalan’s February 27 call for “Peace and a Democratic Society” inspired mothers to strive with all their strength to heal wounds, Kania Süsin said. However, she noted that no positive steps have been taken by the state, while social pressures and attacks on guerrilla areas have continued.
Süsin said: “Enough blood has been shed. It is time not to cause each other pain but to embrace brotherhood. It is time to dance the halay, to sing our songs in our own language. It is time to walk arm in arm with Abdullah Öcalan’s call for a life of brotherhood.”
Süsin underlined that the support of soldier and police mothers who lost their children in the long years of conflict would make a significant contribution to the process if they stood alongside the Peace Mothers.
Süsin said: “In this process, we must unite not as opposing sides but as mothers who have lost their children.” She added that the cries for peace from mothers who could not even reach their children’s remains, and from those who lost thousands of children to unsolved murders, must be valued.
Source: ANF News
