DUBLIN – After the opening speech of the President of the Congress, Kevin Callinan, the topics; Climate justice, social justice in Colombia, support for the Kurdish struggle and support for Palestine were discussed.
A workshop was held as part of the “Freedom for Chairman Abdullah Öcalan” campaign to further highlight the seriousness of the human rights crisis in Turkey and in particular the situation of Rêber Apo. The spokesman for the International Initiative emphasized during the workshop that Öcalan’s freedom is linked to the freedom of “every one of you” as well as to the freedom of the Kurdish people. In the workshop, the Chairman’s paradigm was discussed not only as a solution to the Kurdish problem in the Middle East, but also as a paradigm to be considered in conflicts and problems in the Irish country and around the world.
As a result of this workshop, the International Initiative will further strengthen an increased and ever-growing collaboration with Irish unions in the common struggle against oppression and colonisation. In the workshop it was emphasized that both the Irish and the Kurds were familiar with each other’s struggles due to their colonial position and that the unit emerged strengthened from this.
