We, as women, want to convey our feelings and thoughts with a powerful voice, belief and wish on “World Women Day”.
We, who are brave enough to grow a child, wish our children live in a peaceful world, in a world which is not full of empty words and hopes.
In our century where it is believed that the concepts of democracy are principal and necessary, we should take a clear and determined stand against massacres, threats and misleading information coming from terrorist organizations under the name of ETA, HAMAS, IRA, PKK AUM SHRINKYOU, TAMIL GUERILLAS.
We all are responsible for the future. We are responsible for the sad looks of the baby killed in the Halepce massacre, in Northern Iraq in 1988, pains suffered in Algeria, voice of a mother reflecting the explosion of a bomb, the hopes of thousands of children and women massacred by the PKK and the lives lost in bombed attack in Tel-Aviv.
Then, the struggle with terrorism which has gained an international dimension should be carried out by an international solidarity and cooperation.
We should not let the terrorist groups who do not believe in the values of democracy and human rights to ruin our world exploiting these concepts.
We, women, in our day where the international cooperation in struggle appears as a prerequisite, call everybody to preserve peace with consciousness of this imperative of cooperation.
THE ASSOCIATION OF TURKISH MOTHERS