Nilufer Koç: Signature campaigns demanding delisting PKK from terrorist list to expand

 The initiative for international justice for the Kurds, in order to remove the name of the PKK from the "list of terrorist organizations", launched a campaign on January 13, especially for the European Commission.

 From 30 countries, more than a thousand parliamentarians, academic figures, filmmakers, party leaders, and writers participated in the campaign.

 Signatures are collected  in Europe and Latin America and through the Justice for the Kurds page. The campaign's demands were also published in some European newspapers as well.

 A member of the Presidium of the Kurdistan National Congress, Nilufer Koç said that this year's campaign was active and because of the resistance it showed, it prompted some countries to study removing the PKK from the list of terrorist organization.

Nilufer Koç confirmed that the campaign is important breakthrough, affected by the current circumstances.  She said that the latest campaign witnessed new developments.  She demanded the lifting of the isolation and said: The ban and the regulation are used as the sword of Damocles against the people.  The concept of terrorism is exploited as a means to suppress individual opinions, especially progressive peoples and parties.  Our campaign exposes all these policies.  There is no clear definition of terrorism  legally or politically. One understands that the state is exploiting this concept in order to achieve certain political goals.  Germany's pro-Turkish state pressure against the PKK, which has continued since 1985, has been challenged by the people, shows that the real terrorism is the Erdogan regime.  As a result of the continuous struggle of the Kurdish people, the true face of the Turkish state was revealed.  The signature campaign made clear to everyone what the demand of the Kurds, the leader Apo and the PKK .

The process of breaking the ban began in 2014

 Nilufer Koç reports that the issue of lifting the ban on the PKK in 2014 was discussed not only by left-wing democratic circles but by many liberal conservative groups as well.  She said, "The PKK's ferocity against ISIS made known to the world that the PKK is a trustworthy force. The banning of the PKK and its presence in the "terrorist organizations list" was the beginning of the process of breaking the ban. The implementation of the ideas of the ecological democratic women's freedom of the leader in Rojava drew everyone's attention to the PKK."

 Nilufer Koç confirmed that among the signatories there are many parliamentarians, councilors, municipalities, European intellectuals, feminists, climate movements, youth movements, unionists, artists and many political and social figures.  She noted that the profile of 1003 signatories shows that the fear and terror that the state wants to impose on the people have been overcome.  This accession confirms the transcendence of intolerance towards the PKK and as a result there is no longer any existence or reason to fear.

Nilufer continued, saying: The campaign will expand in 2022, because in the 21st century, solutions to conflicts and crises of the current era are found in Kurdistan led by the PKK.  In order to keep the PKK on the list, no country has ever had a legal argument.  In 1993 Germany, in 1997 the United States of America and in 2002 the European Union they never had human rights arguments.  As terrorism does not have a reference definition, neither legal nor political.  As states exploit the concept of terrorism to suppress the movements of the social center and thwart their solidarity together.  The ban and the list exist mainly to serve political goals.  The Kurdish issue, which the PKK seeks to solve in the first place, is a political problem.

 Nilufer Koç indicated that it is exercising against the Kurds a policy of denial through the Sykes-Picot Agreement and was completed by the Lausanne Agreement.  She said: Europe has marginalized the Kurds, making Kurdistan an unhealed wound for the Middle East.  The Palestine issue was also treated this way.  They opened the way to committing massacres against the Kurds and left the Kurds homeless.  The PKK emerged as a result of these practices against the Kurds.

 The stage of including the PKK in the "list of terrorist organizations"

Nilufer Koç explained that on August 15, the PKK began armed resistance as a result of the military violations of the Turkish state.  This step awakened kurds from their inattention.

 Nilufer Koç also made it clear that the Turkish state was in trouble as a result of this resistance and requested support from NATO.  It reported that Germany in 1985 through the Dusseldorf cases in 1986 began to criminalize the PKK.  Nilufer Koç said: “Although she knows that she is a supporter of the oppressed, killing is also the basis of the Dusseldorf trial. Germany could not achieve its goals through the Dusseldorf cases. Nor could it confront the mass of the PKK, neither within nor outside its borders. The rebellions that began in  1990 in Southern and Northern Kurdistan gave way to Germany's ban in 1993. In 1990 PKK crossed the borders of Northern Kurdistan and increased its activity in Eastern and Southern Kurdistan During this stage, there were wide accessions to the PKK in Rojava. The struggle of the PKK spread in the international field and Middle East.  In 1997, the United States considered the activity of the PKK a danger and responded to the calls of the Turkish state and placed the PKK on the “list of terrorist organizations.” But the most important thing here is that the PKK changed its strategies in its seventh conference on January 23, 2000. Where it decided to prioritize  the political struggle. This strategic step opened wide doors for the PKK internationally.

Nilufer indicated that there are countries about to try to remove the name of the PKK from the list, after many facts were revealed that proved that some of the terrorism charges leveled against the PKK were not true.  PKK.  The case was retried by DMME.  The Luxembourg and Belgian courts re-discussed the regulation and ban.  However, countries still continue to support the Turkish state.  However, Erdogan and his fascist government are violating international rights.  While the Turkish state exploits terrorist organizations such as ISIS to implement its expansionist plans, and this leads to serious problems in foreign policy.

 The world sees the PKK as a force for solution

 The United States of America and the European Union consider ISIS a terrorist organization.  The Turkish state is the cause of insecurity and the spread of violence and conflicts.

 Erdogan practices politics on the basis of religious, sexual and national intolerance.  In the face of this, the struggle of the PKK works to combat racism and consolidate participation and equality between peoples.  Achieving women's freedom and spreading democracy.  Respect for and equality of all religions is sanctified without favoring one religion or belief over the other.  Therefore, the PKK is the solution and the Turkish state is the problem.  The power of the PKK to resolve and resolve conflicts appeared with the Rojava revolution and spread to the whole world.  Global sympathy for the PKK is growing and lobbying countries for it.

 Countries have confirmed that they can no longer continue their previous approach

 Nilufer Koç indicated that the countries to which the Turkish state is an ally, especially the United States of America and the European Union, are its allies.  Those countries that ignore the massacres committed by the Turkish state and support it and ignore the illegal arrest of more than 5,000 Kurdish politicians.  and the use of chemical weapons.  It cannot undermine the resolve of the Kurds and repel their resistance under the leadership of the PKK.

 Nilufer Koç said that despite the torture that the leader has been subjected to for 22 years, the Turkish state has not been able to undermine him and break the will of him and his people.  And she continued: "The goal of the isolation applied in Imrali is for the Kurdish people to forget their leader. However, the Kurdish people have been repeating their demand to liberate the leader on a daily basis for 22 years. In the end, the Council of Ministers, which is the highest body in the European Union, issued a decision to change the decision of the life sentence that  Issued against the leader until September 2022. The countries undoubtedly see and follow the continuous resistance of the people, the guerrillas and the leader, and they note that it is time to change their view of the PKK.

 The Turkish state will not be able to hide its fascist face by imposing a ban on the PKK

 Nilufer Koç mentioned the report issued in June this year by all parties of the British Parliament on the Kurdish issue and said: The report proves that Turkey by imposing the ban on the PKK is destroying freedom and democracy, so this ban should be lifted. This opinion was repeated this year many times in Parliament  The European Union, the European Union, and the United States Meeting on Human Rights.  This report shows that Turkey can no longer cover up its fascism by banning the PKK.

 Nilufer emphasized that a political solution to the Kurdish issue must be found, and because the key to the solution is in the hands of the leader and the PKK, the ban on the PKK must be lifted.

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