KURDISH women’s rights activists branded a 30-year jail sentence handed to Free Women’s Movement (TJA) chairwoman Ayse Gokkan by a Turkish court an “attack on all women fighting for freedom” today.

In an appeal for international solidarity, they said that they would not be intimidated by the misogynistic Turkish state and would continue their resistance undeterred.

“This is not an ordinary sentence and we do not take it lightly,” TJA spokeswoman Xece Sen told the Morning Star.