PKK and PAJK prisoners: 44th year will be the year of our Leader’s freedom

In a written statement on behalf of PKK and PAJK prisoners in Turkey and North Kurdistan, Deniz Kaya commemorated the 43rd anniversary of the PKK’s establishment.

The statement remarked that PKK’s invincibility and insubordination stem from its roots, and added; “As PKK and PAJK, we promise that we will resist and fight to the end against the most intense moral and unscrupulous war and isolation in the history of the Turkish Republic directed at women, our people and our Leader, seeing the 44th year of struggle as the year of freedom for women, peoples and our leader.”

The statement further said the following:

“Our party effectively welcome the PKK’s 43rd year of the fight with resistance and struggle. As we approach the 44th year of struggle, we congratulate our party on its foundation anniversary, the 44th anniversary of our people’s independence struggle, and all of our people and humanity, particularly the Leader and our martyrs.

Today, we are more determined than ever to make the 44th year of struggle the year of our Leader’s and our people’s freedom.

The essence and evolution of the PKK may be seen in Rêber Apo’s [Leader Öcalan] childhood and life. If the PKK has grown and expanded, if it has been effective, the righteousness of its starting point has played a significant role. This is where the PKK’s invincibility and defiance stem from. The PKK embodies the refusal to accept the given and the search for a new path. The route to freedom for women, Kurds, Middle Eastern peoples, and humanity is founded on strong foundations which date back to a democratic, liberal, equal-women-led neolithic culture.

The PKK-PAJK is a liberation route for Kurds and all women. ‘Women’s issues take precedence over national issues. The PKK is a women’s party,’ Rêber Apo once said, emphasizing the importance of women’s emancipation, the necessity of women’s struggle, and pointing to the PKK-PAJK as the place for it. One specific example is the Rojava Women’s Revolution, which arose as a result of the PKK’s struggle.

As PKK and PAJK prisoners whose mission is to raise the resistance flag created by the Amed prison tradition, we will resist till the end against the most extreme moral and unscrupulous war and isolation in Turkish Republic history against our women, people, and our leader, and we celebrate the 44th year of the fight. We resolve to resist and fight accordingly, seeing it as the year of liberation for women, peoples, and our leader.”