ESSEN – Today the Long March for Freedom Rêber Apos started in Essen under the leadership of the revolutionary youth movement and the militant young women TekoJIN. At the Long March in which Kurdish and internationalist youth from many different countries participate, our news agency has asked the participants for their opinion.
German internationalist Ronja, is also participating in the Long March and explained to our news agency what moved her to do so. She said:
“Hello I’m Ronja and I’m from Berlin and I’m on the street today together with the friends to protest for the freedom of Rêber Apo. For me, especially as a young woman, it is essential to go to the streets and stand up for internationalism freedom and general freedom for peace and democracy and anti-capitalism. I have set myself the goal here of course to move a lot of people or to get into conversation with a lot of people and finally to set a sign here in Europe. Bijî Serok Apo!”
Ciu from Berlin, who is also a member of the Red Feminist Youth told our news agency:
“My name is Ciu. I am from Berlin and part of the Red Feminist Youth in Berlin. I am participating in the Long March for the Freedom of Abdullah Ocalan today as an internationalist, because we are living in a time where the crises are coming to a head, the Kurdistan Freedom Movement is also talking about the third world war that we are in, and also in Germany we feel the effects of the system, which is simply no longer sustainable for us. That is why we are organizing against it. Rêber Apo as a pioneer of the Kurdish movement and the new paradigm has answers to these questions that we have to ask ourselves as young people growing up in this system.
That is why it is so important to fight for his physical freedom, because the plot that has been implemented against him is an attack on the freedom of all of us. What he represents is the freedom of all of us and what we are fighting for. As a young woman, I firmly believe that we young women carry the power within us. We carry the power of youth and the power of women and we have to unite that by and we have to unite them by organizing together, by forming new analyses for all over the world, because the Kurdish movement is also an internationalist movement. I believe that every young woman has to find this power within herself. We can’t fight for our own freedom, we have to fight for the freedom of all, because how can we be free, if everyone is not free.”
