{"id":11919,"date":"2025-05-22T05:07:16","date_gmt":"2025-05-22T00:37:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/?p=11919"},"modified":"2025-05-22T05:07:16","modified_gmt":"2025-05-22T00:37:16","slug":"afghanistans-turkic-womens-movement-reacts-to-khalilzads-wifes-remarks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/afghanistans-turkic-womens-movement-reacts-to-khalilzads-wifes-remarks\/","title":{"rendered":"Afghanistan&#8217;s Turkic Women&#8217;s Movement Reacts to Khalilzad&#8217;s Wife&#8217;s Remarks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-11914\" src=\"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/H-khalilzad.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" \/><\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Turkic Women&#8217;s Movement of Afghanistan (TUWM) has issued a statement strongly condemning the recent statements of Zalmay Khalilzad&#8217;s wife, Cheryl Bernard, a figure close to the Doha agreement process.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">In an article on the National Interest website, Bernard called the concerns of Afghan refugees about returning to Afghanistan &#8220;unfounded,&#8221; the statement, released on May 21, 2025, said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The movement described such views as &#8220;indifferent, irresponsible and helping to legitimize the Taliban apartheid regime.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Members of the movement have accused Benard of ignoring the realities on the ground, insulting the suffering of refugees, and trying to normalize gender apartheid.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Meanwhile, Dr. Amin Ahmadi, a university professor and former member of the republican peace talks delegation, said Bernard&#8217;s statements could provide the basis for a legal complaint by Afghan women. She stressed that these positions could be considered an example of &#8220;assistance in crimes against women&#8221;.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Turkic Women&#8217;s Movement of Afghanistan (TUWM) has issued a statement strongly condemning the recent statements of Zalmay Khalilzad&#8217;s wife, Cheryl Bernard, a figure close to the Doha agreement process. In an article on the National Interest website, Bernard called the concerns of Afghan refugees about returning to Afghanistan &#8220;unfounded,&#8221; the statement, released on May [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":11914,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,24],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-political"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11919"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11921,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11919\/revisions\/11921"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11914"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elmedia.news\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}