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Female fighters: We won't stand for male dominance

The women line the mountainside, locked hand in hand in their green battle fatigues, and begin dancing. It's a victory dance, they say, that is routine after raids across the border on Turkish troops. "We want a natural life, a society that revolves around women -- one where women and men are equal," says Rengin, the head of a female battalion of the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK. <p><a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~a/rss/cnn_world?a=FNsain"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~a/rss/cnn_world?i=FNsain" border="0"></img></a></p><div class="feedflare"> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_world?a=UhxlM"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_world?i=UhxlM" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_world?a=04y2M"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_world?i=04y2M" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_world?a=bd5um"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_world?i=bd5um" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_world?a=FsnEM"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_world?i=FsnEM" border="0"></img></a> <a href="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_world?a=zNKUm"><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~f/rss/cnn_world?i=zNKUm" border="0"></img></a> </div><img src="http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/cnn_world/~4/413255990" height="1" width="1"/>