Campaign for delisting of PKK continues in Lausanne

The international campaign to remove the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) from the list of terrorist organisations is being canvassed in Lausanne.  The campaign for the delisting of the e Kurdish liberation movement was launched last November by the international initiative “Justice for Kurds” and is directed at the Council of Europe. The goal is four million signatures for the removal of the PKK from the “terror list”. The campaign petition can also be signed online.

The Justice for Kurds initiative highlights in the campaign that the classification of the PKK as a terrorist organisation serves as a justification for attacks on Kurds and as a reason for war and leads to “endemic inequalities being overlooked and social problems not being addressed”. The peace initiative is supported by internationally known personalities from politics, civil law, art and culture, including Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek, Afghan women’s rights activist Selay Ghaffar, German international law expert Norman Paech and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek.

In Lausanne, activists from the Kurdish youth organisations Jinên Ciwan ên Tekoşer (TekoJIN) and Tevgera Ciwanên Şoreşger (TCŞ) provide information about the Kurdish movement and Abdullah Öcalan’s ideas regarding a grassroots democratic, gender-free and ecological social order at a stand in the city centre every Wednesday as part of their campaign “Werin Cenga Azadiyê” (Come to the freedom struggle). Today, the action was supported by members of the Lajîn Women’s Council, who at the same time distributed leaflets with information about the campaign to remove the PKK from the terror list and collected signatures for the petition.”

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