Our flow continues uninterruptedly with the motto of "Following the truth with the pen of women" on the way we started out by saying "We write without thinking about what men will say". Gurbetelli's pen never fell from our hands, and Ayfer's idea of a "women's agency" never left our minds.

 

Deniz's sacrifice became the way for our flow, Nûjiyan's resistance against darkness became the light on our way, Dilovan's courage became our strength, and we became JINNEWS in this flow...

 

First, we walked with Virginia's "A Room of One's Own" thesis. Then we said, "one room is not enough, we exist in every area" and left our rooms and realized that we are at the center of life. The devaluation of women and society; The fact that we are equipped with male-dominated codes on all sides has led us to seek various pursuits and to transform the language of the media. We tried to reflect the truth with the language and pen of women in all areas of life against the sexist, monist, militarist, anti-woman, and nature-hating understanding that sees women as a sex object and does not go beyond the 3rd page of the news. In this truth, there was hardship and pain, victory, and anger.

 

In this process, where all kinds of violence against women have increased and massacres of women have reached "genocide", we said, "No violence is isolated". We tried to be a voice for the suspicious deaths that were tried to be covered by saying "she fell from the balcony", "fire broke out", "she committed suicide". We aimed to be a voice in the face of violence, harassment, rape, and inequality that children are exposed to in Quran courses, dormitories, and every public place. We became the voice of those who filled the streets for the implementation of the Istanbul Convention, struggled for real justice against the male judiciary in the corridors of the courthouse, tried to be murdered, wrote the name of the perpetrator on the ground with the blood of the perpetrator while he was seriously injured, were murdered despite the decision of removal, and were killed with the gun of the village guard.

 

We made the voices of the imprisoned politicians, Aysel Tuğluk, who was not released due to the ATK report despite her dementia, and the women who said, "the will of the people cannot be judged". We became the voice of women fighting against ISIS and the Taliban in the Middle East. We became the voice of the Jîna Mahsa Aminî resistance that started in Tehran and spread to Rojhilat. We gave place to women's words against the mullah regime, the ISIS mentality, the rising populist male-dominated politics all over the world and the destruction created by all oppressive regimes.

 

We set out to be the runner in the history of women, which has been turned upside down for 5,000 years. The flow took us to Serhad, Botan, and that was not enough, Rojava. Sometimes we traveled in history, sometimes we followed the current. This flow brings us closer to the truth. We became the Tigris and Euphrates in Mesopotamia, Asi in Çukurova, Kızılırmak in the Black Sea, Porsuk in Central Anatolia, Meriç in Marmara, and we flowed madly...

 

Ipek's last letter in Batman, Gulistan's cry of "they lost me" in Dersim, Fatma's unrecorded language in Muş, Efe's childhood in Amed, Nevin's self-defense in Isparta, The path of women who escaped from darkness in Raqqa, Deir ez-Zor and Manbij and rushed to freedom, the partner of the indescribable happiness of the Yazidis reunited with Shengal, the feeling of those who yearn for their country in Maxmur, the people whose land was occupied in Afrin, Girê Spî and Serêkaniye. The anger of every tree cut down in Cudi, the women's stick in İkizdere, the firs in Kaz Mountains, the waiting of the people protecting the Akbelen forest in İkizköy, which is wanted to be cut down for thermal power plants, the relatives of the prisoners demanding justice in front of the courthouse, in the squares and in front of the prison. vigil, we became the voice of the Saturday Mothers who did not return home…

 

Of course, while we were doing this, we became the hate and target of some. Our site was blocked 43 times in 5 years, countless of our friends were subjected to violence, our cameras and cameras were broken. Our offices were raided, our friends were arrested. They smashed our computers, which were a problem for them, and they were very afraid of, but their anger did not subside. On June 16, they arrested 16 of our friends, our news director Safiye Alağaş has been in prison for 3 months. But no one could stop this flow. With each passing day, we grew and became companions to women…

 

Every moment of us was a race to the truth. It was a tremendous joy for us to reach women who are seen as the other. We were even more excited to record every woman whose labor was not seen in the field, at home or at work, and to make her talk.

 

 Broadcasting in Kurdish, Turkish, Zazaki and English, JINNEWS continues to say, “We exist too” and makes the voices of women around the world heard. We say, “Let's make this voice louder together”. This flow has fed us for 5 years and we have grown together. To many more years when we will continue this flow together...

 

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