Kurdish-Syrian 'feminists' form giant human shield to resist Turkish incursion

Kurdish-Syrian 'feminists' form giant human shield to resist Turkish incursion



When the threat of an attack looms, scores of Kurdish women in every major township in their carved out canton of Rojava in northeastern Syria, routinely stand shoulder-to-shoulder with defiant faces. Amid a region ravaged by years of conflict and ISIS incursions, their formation is what they call their own human shield – a shield comprised of self-declared feminists belonging to their group called “Kongra Star” with the tagline “Woman, Life, Freedom.”

August 9, 2019 at 07:38PMvia FOX NEWS https://ift.tt/33lB4ZG https://ift.tt/2ThuwXq