DORTMUND, GERMANY
The Kurdish youth organizations, TEKO-JIN and TCŞ, rebuked the German PKK ban on its 27th anniversary in Dortmund. The young people explained that the ban is a reflection of the hostility of the German state against the Kurdish people and their struggle for freedom.
“The German state must end its hostile attitude towards the Kurdish people”
The first of the protests organized with the slogan “End to Isolation, Occupation, Fascism: Bi Hev Re Serhildan” started at noon in front of the central train station. Protesting the ban, the patriotic public and internationalist youth rallied, chanting anti-fascist slogans. The activists later made press-statements demanding that the PKK ban be removed as soon as possible and the German state’s hostility towards the Kurdish people was ended.
After the action, the young people who travelled to the Dortmund Democratic Kurdish Community Center where a film-screening and panel event was held.
During the event, the young people discussed the political process and the role and mission of the youth in the face of this process. The young people discussed the betrayal of the KDP which is a topic of great anger amongst Kurdish societies globally.
“Action every moment, everywhere”
In the evening, the youth marched for the physical freedom of Leader Öcalan. During the march attended by approximately 25 young people, a banner reading “Isolation against Öcalan must end – Now is the time of freedom” and “Bi Hev Re Serhildan” was carried.
The youth, who rejected the ban of PKK and Peoples Leader Abdullah Öcalan, unfurled Leader Öcalan’s posters and PKK flags during the protest.
The march, in which the slogans of “Freedom for Öcalan” were chanted in German and Kurdish, ended following a press-statement by the youth, emphasizing that “every moment is the moment of action, and everywhere is a place of action.”
The young people highlighted that their actions will continue to be strengthened and enlarged.
