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“Women, who were given various roles and duties by the
PKK from the 1990s on, became the main force keeping the
organization alive. All the women interviewed said that
the ‘organizational structure’ would collapse if that force
were to leave. Ronahi says, ‘If there were no women, you
could not keep the men in the organization,’ Beritan says,
‘Men remain up in the mountains for the women,’ Ejin says,

‘Not one man would remain up in the mountains if it were
not for the women,’ Revşen says, ‘If the women left the
organization nobody would remain up in the mountains,’
and Pelin says, ‘if the women left, the men would not rema-
in up in the mountains for a moment.’ All of these com-
ments are highly significant in
this context.” 11

In fact, according to
Alkan’s analysis,
women, who were
regarded by the PKK as
“slaves to be freed” in
the early years, were
referred to as “com-

rades” from the
1990s when they
began taking part
in armed attacks
and as “goddes-
ses” when they
began taking
part in suicide
attacks from

1996. However,

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