Democratic Islam condemns Kurdish genocide in commemoration of Sheikh Said Piran's uprising

In a statement read today in the city of Qamishlo, the Democratic Islam Conference commemorated Sheikh Said Piran, who led the first Kurdish revolution against the Turkish occupying state, on the centennial anniversary of the Sheikh Said uprising.

The statement, read by Mulla Hokar Hassan, in the presence of dozens of conference members, included: "The Turkish Republic was founded on denial and genocide, especially the genocide of anything Kurdish."

The statement added: "The natural and legitimate response to the establishment of the Turkish Republic based on the denial and genocide of other nations, particularly the Kurdish people, is to demand and revolt against it, and this is what happened during Sheikh Said Piran’s uprising on February 15, 1925, which is considered the first uprising of the Kurdish Muslim people against the newly established Turkish nation-state."

The statement also referenced the international conspiracy forces capturing Leader Abdullah Ocalan and handing him over to the Turkish regime on the same date as Sheikh Said Piran's uprising, as proof of the bloody and conspiratorial memory against the Kurdish people's existence, continuing the policy of denial and genocide, and aiming to ignite a fierce war between the Kurdish and Turkish peoples.

The statement continued: "Thanks to the cultural heritage of the Kurdish people and the open-mindedness of the leader and thinker Abdullah Ocalan, the international conspiracy did not achieve its goal, and here is the Kurdish people, like all other peoples, still present on their land, struggling to secure their legitimate human rights."

The statement noted that the Turkish nation-state, which established its foundations on denial, displacement, and genocide of the Kurdish people, is now groaning and experiencing the death throes, pleading for survival.

The statement concluded by saying: "Today, we live the centenary of Sheikh Said Piran's uprising, fully aware of the dimensions of the international conspiracy that has lasted for a century," reaffirming commitment and loyalty to the blood of the thousands of martyrs who fell in the struggle to secure a free and dignified life for the Kurdish people.

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