Munzur University students organized a march for Gülistan Doku, who disappeared on 5 January 2020 in Dêrsim and was never heard from again, and for Rojin Kabaiş, a student whose body was found 18 days after her disappearance on 27 September 2024 in Wan. 

 

During the march held on the university campus, photographs of Rojin Kabaiş and Gülistan Doku were carried. They also carried the banners "Jin, jiyan, azadî" and "Femicide is political". During the march, the slogans "Where is Gülistan? Be a voice for Rojin" and "Femicides are political" slogans were chanted.

 

Speaking after the march, student Ruken Ecer said, "Gülistan Doku was disappeared 5 years ago as a result of the conscious and systematic policies of the special war regime. The special war regime, with all its institutions and dirty policies, does not shed light on what happened to Gülistan. The prime suspect Zaynal Abakarov is not being tried, he is being acquitted. We know that the fact that our friend was not informed about what happened to her in Dêrsim is the result of special war policies."

 

'IT IS THE RESULT OF SPECIAL WAR POLICIES'

 

Referring to the death of Rojin Kabaiş, who suspiciously disappeared in Wan and whose lifeless body was found 18 days later, Ruken Ecer said, "The murder of Rojin, just like the disappearance of Gülistan, is not independent from the conscious and systematic policies of the special war regime and is ideological. The fact that no image other than a single image of Rojin Kabaiş was shared in Van Yüzüncü Yıl University Campus, which is full of cameras everywhere, is due to the attempt to complicate and cover up the incident. The special war regime, which makes campuses uninhabitable with so-called security measures, coincidentally does not reach a single piece of evidence of Rojin's murder. We know that none of this is coincidental, it is the result of the special war regime's policies of female genocide."

 

Stating that they will increase their struggle from campuses to the streets, Ruken Ecer said, "We will ask for the account of all our murdered and disappeared friends. We call on all women, especially young women, to organise with the consciousness of self-defence against the genocide of women and to increase the struggle."