3-day march in different cities of Germany starts in Dortmund

FED-MED and YJK-E NRW in Germany’s NRW (North Rhine-Westphalia) state, the 3-day long march started with the participation of hundreds of Kurds in the city center of Dortmund with the slogan “Freedom for Leader Apo means freedom for everyone”. Activists carried a banner demanding freedom for Öcalan as well as his photographs and walked for hours in the busiest streets of the city.

Throughout the day, representatives of the institutions made speeches and read statements.

YJK-E spokesperson Ayten Kaplan and KON-MED co-chair Engin Sever addressed the crowd.

Ayten Kaplan said: “The genocidal attacks against the Kurdish people continue to increase. The Turkish state is seeking to carry out an attack for total destruction. The isolation of Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan also depends on these attacks. Democracy, human rights and law are disregarded and the peoples living in Turkey are repressed. The European states and the German government witnessed these attacks but continue their silence. For this reason, the peoples of Kurdistan will continue to be on the streets.”

KON-MED co-chair Engin Sever said: “Leader Apo [Abdullah Öcalan] has been kept in an isolation system for 23 years. The isolation is being imposed on the development of Kurdistan in the person of our Leader. Leader Apo represents free life for the Kurdish people. Therefore, his physical freedom must be ensured as soon as possible. All countries, especially Germany, which is involved in the international conspiracy, remain silent and support the isolation. The German government is implementing the Imrali isolation system in its own country by banning Kurdish institutions and colours. KON-MED does not accept the isolation system applied to Leader Öcalan. The German government should immediately abandon its anti-democratic attacks against the Kurdish people and their leader. It should take a clear stance against the fascist Turkish state.”

The 2nd day of the march will continue in Cologne, Heumark, at 11 am tomorrow, 11 February.

On 12 February at 1 pm the final march will be held in front of DGB Haus in Düsseldorf.

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