HAMBURG, GERMANY
The Long March protest which saw the participation of internationalist youth from all over Europe, ended in Hamburg on 11 September after being initiated in Hannover, Germany, on 5 September. The march which has been traditionally organised every year for the past 20 years, was organised around the slogan “Revolt Together for the Freedom of Rêber APO” and was led by the European Kurdish movements Tevgera Ciwanên Şoreşger and Jinên Ciwan ên Têkoşer.
The march, which continued with the obstinacy and enthusiasm by the youth despite the German police’s obstruction and provocation attempts since the beginning of the action, ended at the planned point.
Many internationalists and patriots also accompanied the youth walking in Hamburg on the last day of the action.
While announcements were read in German during the march in the city centre, passers-by supported the action with victory signs and applause.
In the last part of the march, when activists came to Rote Flora, a giant poster of Leader Öcalan was unfurled at the centre of the antifa youth, PKK flags and banners with the words ‘Berxwedan Jiyan e’ in German were carried, while the youth raised the yellow Öcalan flags banned by the German state. The slogans
In the speech made on behalf of the marchers, it was said:
“We are giving the message that the resistance will continue for as long as the Turkish state that wants to murder us. Again, we send greetings to Heftanin, Imrali and Leader Apo thousands of times.
Young people will not accept the German state’s prohibitions and criminalization policies. Those who say that this flag is forbidden, who prohibit our Leader, our language, our existence, should know well, and see that today this flag is flying in the hands of young people.
Let the German state know that we are here whether the price is our lives. Our resistance will continue with the “Bi Hev Re serhildan” move.
