TEV-ÇAND artists demand freedom for Öcalan
TEV-ÇAND artists demand freedom for Öcalan
TEV-ÇAND artists have taken their turn on the Freedom for Öcalan vigil in front of the European Council building in the French city of Strasbourg. The vigil started on 25 June 2012 after the Geneva-Strasbourg Long March in the winter and the 52-day-long hunger strike in Strasbourg last March, and has been carried out by new groups every week.
The organizers, ‘Freedom for Öcalan Initiative activists and Geneva-Strasbourg marchers’, ask the European Council, European Parliament, European Union countries and western countries such as the USA to "stop their political, military and economic support of Turkey” and demand freedom for the Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan and the recognition of the Kurdish peoples’ status in all parts of Kurdistan.
TEV-ÇAND member poet-singer Seyîdxan described Kurdish artists as laborers of the Kurdish Freedom Movement and underlined that; “An artist's place is where the people are. The heart of our people is now beating for Imralý, and it is there that we turned, there where our hearts are also beating”.
“Our arts spring from the values of revolution, those values we have to be worthy of. This is why we have taken over the vigil. We know and believe Kurdish people's leader Mr. Öcalan is a value and as such must be protected. We, artists, should also play a role in this critical process, said Seyîdxan and called on Turkish authorities to ensure freedom for Mr Öcalan so that the ongoing talks could come up with a solution.
Seyîdxan ended by calling on the people of Kurdistan in Europe to actively participate to the vigil and to collect signatures for the petition for Öcalan's freedom.
The organizers, ‘Freedom for Öcalan Initiative activists and Geneva-Strasbourg marchers’, ask the European Council, European Parliament, European Union countries and western countries such as the USA to "stop their political, military and economic support of Turkey” and demand freedom for the Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan and the recognition of the Kurdish peoples’ status in all parts of Kurdistan.
TEV-ÇAND member poet-singer Seyîdxan described Kurdish artists as laborers of the Kurdish Freedom Movement and underlined that; “An artist's place is where the people are. The heart of our people is now beating for Imralý, and it is there that we turned, there where our hearts are also beating”.
“Our arts spring from the values of revolution, those values we have to be worthy of. This is why we have taken over the vigil. We know and believe Kurdish people's leader Mr. Öcalan is a value and as such must be protected. We, artists, should also play a role in this critical process, said Seyîdxan and called on Turkish authorities to ensure freedom for Mr Öcalan so that the ongoing talks could come up with a solution.
Seyîdxan ended by calling on the people of Kurdistan in Europe to actively participate to the vigil and to collect signatures for the petition for Öcalan's freedom.
