Women stage sit-in for peace at Turkish parliament

Women human rights activists have staged a sit-in at Turkey's parliament to protest ongoing military operations in the southeast and to call on parliament to ensure peace in the region. 

"End the war, talk peace," the group of women chanted during the protest. 

During the protest by professor ?ebnem Korur Fincanc?, Mine Nazari, Nadire Mater, Ne?e Özgen, Nimet Tanr?kulu and Ümit Efe, and Ümit Sezer, the group expressed their wish for a "free, democratic, equal, just and peaceful country."

Ficanc? delivered a speech urging parliament to form a "resolution desk" to restart collapsed negotiations for a peaceful solution to the Kurdish question. 

"Cizre, Silopi, Sur, Silvan, Dargeçit, Nusaybin; lift the sieges, end the curfews," Ficanc? said, recounting the names of towns under military curfew in Turkey's southeast." 

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