# Women reach Kurdish controlled territory and rip off their abayas.

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**Created:** [June 7, 2015, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-reach-kurdish-controlled-territory-and-rip-off-their-abayas/721845 "2015-06-07T01:18:21Z")\
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**Author:** ![aceplace57](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/aceplace57/32/3500_2.png) [@aceplace57](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/aceplace57)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2015, 1:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/women-reach-kurdish-controlled-territory-and-rip-off-their-abayas/721845/1 "2015-06-07T01:18:21Z")

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Such wonderful images of reclaimed freedom that gets taken for granted in so many places.

Takes off blackness and enters into the light. What a powerful and thought provoking message. That first photo deserves a Time or Newsweek cover. The Kurds have been such an inspiration in fighting ISIS. Protecting their fragile homelands from being overrun. Twitter, Click #GireSipi a lot of good information on whats going on.

> **[FREE AT LAST: Women rip off abaya cloaks ISIS forces on them as they reach...](https://www.nydailynews.com/2015/06/06/free-at-last-women-rip-off-abaya-cloaks-isis-forces-on-them-as-they-reach-kurdish-controlled-area/)**
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> Pictures have emerged of women joyously throwing off their long, black abayas they are forced to wear in ISIS-controlled territory. The pictures show the women getting rid of the abaya as they get …

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> Freedom Portrait A woman takes off blackness after reaching safety, #Kurds #YPG contrld area, west #GireSipi #Rojava