On the 100th anniversary of World Labourer Women's Day March 8, women went on the streets in different cities of Turkey and Northern Kurdistan. {divide}
On March 6, nearly 7,000 women gathered at a rally in Kadikoy, Istanbul and demanded peace, equality and freedom. The rally organised by the March 8 Platform of Istanbul, among them the women of SP, SDP , EHP , ESP Socialist Women Assemblies, Democratic Free Women's Movement, and the women of Genc-Sen , KESK and DISK , was joined by the female TEKEL workers, too. Kurdish women participated in their traditional clothes. The women frequently shouted different slogans such as "No to sexual assault, rape", "Raise, raise, raise the voice of peace", "Long lives women's solidarity" and "Long lives our 100 years old struggle". The opening speech was made in Turkish and Kurdish and the female ATV-Sabah and TEKEL workers who have been leading a resistance were saluted. It was also demanded that March 8 becomes a paid and official holiday and that the struggle for this must be strengthened.
In Amed, 10,000 women gathered at Dagkapi Square. With 10,000 this was the biggest rally in Turkey and Northern Kurdistan. The women of Amed, which because of the 100th anniversary of March 8 was declared to be a women's city for 3 days, carried a banner read "We are marching for a free world". They also carried the pictures of women leaders such as Clara Zetkin, Roza Luxemburg, Berivan and Leyla Kasim.
In Izmir, women reliaed a march following the call of March 8 Platform of Izmir. The women shouted different slogans in Turkish and Kurdish such as "We are women, we are mothers, and we want peace". In Ankara women gathered for a march, too, and carried a banner read "We are getting stronger with solidarity on the 100th anniversary and are making changes by struggling". The women mass, among them women of KESK and DISK BDP , ESP Socialist Women Assemblies, and women of Halkevleri frequently shouted the slogans "Long lives March 8" and "Long lives women solidarity".
In Antep nearly 500 women followed the call of the Democratic Women's Platform of Antep and realised a march. At the march the women said: "We were the ones who created the past and we are the ones who will create the future". March 8 was also celebrated in different Kurdish cities such as Hakkari, Bingol and Batman.