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Women given various tasks and roles by the PKK after the 1990s
became the main force keeping the organization on its feet. All
the women interviewed stated that if that force were to quit the
organization, "its organizational structure would collapse".
Ronahi's words stating that, "were there no women you could
not keep the men in the organization", Beritan's statement saying
that "the men stay up in the mountains for the women", Revşen's
opinion stating that "if women left the organization nobody would
stay up in the mountains" and Pelin's words saying that, "If the

women left, the men would not stay up in the mountains for a
second" are all significant in that context. 32

A poster intended to serve
communist propaganda
about "freeing women from
servitude".

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