On the 27th anniversary of the international conspiracy against Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan, which was launched on 9 October 1998, Kurds are preparing to take to the streets in Europe for the physical freedom of Abdullah Öcalan. 

 

Under the leadership of the Kurdish Women's Movement in Europe (Tevgera Jinên Kurd a Ewropayê -TJK-E), rallies, marches, demonstrations, leaflet distributions and press statements will be held in many European countries, especially in Germany, France, Austria and Scandinavian countries, under the slogan "Freedom for Öcalan for peace and democratic solution". Until 11 October, the protests will raise the demand for the physical freedom of Abdullah Öcalan and the implementation of the "right to hope". 

 

Giving information about the protest actions they will organise, TJK-E Spokesperson Ayten Kapla said that this year they will especially march with the demand for Öcalan's physical freedom and the implementation of the right to hope. 

 

'ABDULLAH ÖCALAN CONTINUES TO BE HOPE'

 

Ayten Kaplan said that the resistance of the Kurdish people had frustrated the conspiracy and that Öcalan continued to resist despite the isolation in İmralı. 

"The latest developments in the Middle East have forced the international forces that carried out the conspiracy to go to Mr Öcalan's door," she said.

 

Stating that after Abdullah Öcalan's call for peace and a democratic society, a new door was opened for the resolution of the Kurdish issue through democratic methods, Ayten Kaplan said: "As women, we are the subjects of this process and our first demand is the physical freedom of Mr Öcalan and the immediate implementation of the right to hope. All the activities we will organise this year will be on the axis of these demands."

 

'THE COMMISSION SHOULD MEET WITH MR OCALAN'

 

Criticising the slow progress of the process, Ayten Kaplan emphasised that Öcalan is the leader of a people and the interlocutor of the problem and noted that Turkey does not approach the issue with this seriousness. 

 

She stated that the National Solidarity, Brotherhood and Democracy Commission established in the Parliament for the solution of the Kurdish issue should take action for legal steps. "This commission needs to go to the Leader and get his opinion, or the Leader needs to come to the Parliament and speak."

 

Noting that the state and the government should give up their approaches that change according to the developments, he stated that Öcalan offered concrete solution proposals. 

 

Ayten Kaplan reminded that Öcalan offered alternatives to the problems of women, prisons and local government and said that the state could either enact laws on these issues or find solutions to the problems of society by forming federative, democratic communes as proposed by Öcalan.

 

'WE ARE IN THE FIELDS AGAINST ISOLATION AND WAR POLICY' 

 

Stating that as TJK-E they will be in the fields in all cities of Europe, Ayten Kaplan concluded: "We will continue to oppose the wars of hegemony imposed on all societies in the 21st century with the paradigm of women's freedom. Because the construction of the confederal system offered by Mr Öcalan to all women and peoples offers the possibility of a democratic and peaceful world without wars. We will continue to shout our demands for the physical freedom of Mr Öcalan, who offers us these opportunities, and for the solution of the Kurdish question on legal, constitutional and legal grounds. We call on all our people, especially women, to condemn the conspiracy and stand up for our Leader."

 

MA / Esra Solin Dal