Mesopotamia is not only the birthplace of humanity, but also the first laboratory of different powers, cultures, exploitation and resistance. In these lands, man first tamed the land, and then the ruling powers that rose above the land attempted to tame man through force and oppression. The temple economy of Sumer, the centralized coercive apparatus of Akkad, the laws of Babylon, the militarist state mind of Assyria used many methods unworthy of human dignity to oppress society. They were all different faces of the same problem. Who will rule the human being and at what price?
Academic history tells us this. The state was born in Mesopotamia, but with it obedience, class, male domination and the war machine. Women were pushed from the center of production to the margins of governance. Society drifted from communal equality to hierarchical domination. This rupture is the deepest fault line in human history. But the Kurds, the people of the mountains, carried the only rhythm on this fault line that remained unbroken for thousands of years. The Kurdish people had only one goal and paid many prices for it, it was the will to live free that they never gave up, neither empires nor Nation-States could erase this will.
Because Kurdish social memory has preserved the oldest cultural codes of Mesopotamia - communal solidarity, women's knowledge, collective life. In the modern era, Nation-States rose, borders were drawn, identities were banned, languages were silenced. But history shows that within every oppression grows its own counterpart. The Kurdish people created an organized social consciousness against centuries of denial. The most radical breakthrough of this consciousness, as the irony of history, was the Rojava Women's Revolution, the newest answer to Mesopotamia's oldest question.
Rojava is not a political project in the wreckage of war in the Middle East, but a conscious and organized revolt against the thousands of years of Mesopotamia's history of power. It is a paradigm that replaces the statist mind with Democratic-Confederalism, the male-dominated system with women's liberation, and the hierarchy of the rulers with communal organization. This paradigm is not only a model of governance but also an attempt to reverse the historical break of humanity. Women's leadership is at the heart of this revolution. Because the birth of the state in Mesopotamia coincided with the collapse of women's liberation.
The women's revolution in Rojava is the first great historical move to reverse this collapse. For this reason, Rojava is a new breath of fresh air not only for the Kurdish people, but for all the oppressed, laborers, peoples whose identities have been suppressed. While all the powers of the world were drowning in the smoke of war, the Women's Revolution in Rojava wrote a new social contract. The essence of this contract is that freedom is only possible if women are free. Today, Rojava is no longer a small geography in the middle of the global balance of power, but the site of a historical showdown dating back to the beginning of Mesopotamia.
The thousands of years old chain of power, from the shadow of Sumerian priests to the oppression of modern Nation-States, was broken for the first time here in Rojava with the Women's Revolution. This break is the most radical transformation in human history. Because this revolution is a new paradigm that questions not only a power, but power itself. When geography meets human history, the geography and people of Mesopotamia have seen a lot in the process that extends to the present day. The rights of Mesopotamia saw the first writing, the first law, the first State, the first war, and the Women of Rojava showed something new to the World Humanity in these lands. History is not only something that is written, it is also an expression of the reality of rewriting it when necessary.