The Co-Presidency of the KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) Executive Council released a statement regarding the current developments in the region, the meeting of the DEM Party MPs with the Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan in İmralı and the upcoming new year.

The KCK statement on Tuesday includes the following:

“Humanity and our people are entering a new year. In the last year, the Third World War of partition continued in the world, in our region, and in our country, deepening, causing great loss of life and injuries, and spreading to new areas. This war is affecting all humanity in the most severe way. Hunger, thirst, inadequate access to health care, poverty, unemployment, and deterioration in living conditions are becoming more widespread.

The colonialist genocidal Turkish state, backed by the conditions arising from the Third World War, has done everything it could to liquidate the Kurdish freedom struggle. It has maintained the isolation of Rêber Apo (Leader Abdullah Öcalan) continued to use all kinds of chemical weapons against the guerrilla, committed endless lawlessness, including the most severe torture of prisoners struggling for freedom and disregarding the universal rights of law, and implemented the state of emergency laws against our people. The oppression of women has continued unabated, and arbitrary arrests, massacres, and rape have become almost commonplace. In particular, the appointment of trustees to many elected municipalities has been the most striking colonialist practice in terms of showing great intolerance to the Kurdish people’s ability to live according to their own identity and free will.

In the course of the developments in Syria, the gangs and mercenaries of the SNA affiliated with the fascist Turkish government have displaced more than a hundred thousand of our people; women and children have been deliberately massacred within the scope of the genocidal practices targeting the Kurdish people in North and East Syria.

The attacks against our people and the Kurdish freedom movement predominantly aim to break the will to resist, to break the hope and belief to live freely and humanely on their own lands. However, the resistance of Rêber Apo under the most unrelenting isolation conditions and the heroic resistance of the Kurdish freedom guerrilla, despite the use of all kinds of banned weapons and the most advanced technology by the Turkish army, have thwarted and devastated all the calculations of the fascist government. We commemorate with respect and gratitude all freedom fighters who were martyred in this resistance and all over Kurdistan. We take responsibility for their memory by raising the struggle and achieving victory.

The resistance of our people, the workers and women under the slogan ‘Jin, Jiyan, Azadi’ prevented the colonialist fascist government from achieving its goals. Especially the struggle in the framework of the global campaign ‘Freedom for Abdullah Ocalan, a Political Solution to the Kurdish Question’ was intensified by our movement, people, and their international friends, and therefore has gained a universal character. It played an important role in dispelling the darkness they tried to force upon us and has revealed freedom on the horizon.

The meeting between Rêber Apo and the DEM Party delegation in Imrali on December 28th was a direct result of Rêber Apo’s unprecedented stance in Imrali prison and the resistance of the Kurdish freedom movement, our people, and its international friends all over Kurdistan and the world. In this meeting, by taking historical responsibility and in contradiction to the darkness they want to impose, Rêber Apo once again put forward his positive, solution-oriented, and horizon-opening point of view. In addition to the solution of the Kurdish question, the democratization of Turkey, and the solution of the problems in the Middle East, he unveiled with great conviction that a just peace is an urgent task all over the world and thereby is creating new hope and faith for all peoples from all cultures, particularly for women and workers. He summarized his ideas in seven points, which define our duties to be fulfilled and give new strength and hope to the movement and people.

As the freedom and peoples' movement, we declare that our leader's views announced at the end of 2024, which are worth a manifesto, will be our compass of struggle in the new year. We call on our people, all our friends, all political segments, and all democratic forces who are in favor of the solution of the Kurdish question and the democratization of Turkey to struggle on this basis. With the belief that the new year will bring the physical liberation of Rêber Apo, the solution of the Kurdish question, the democratization of Turkey and the region, peace and stability in our region and the whole world, we congratulate Rêber Apo, all comrades, women, and workers who struggle for freedom on the new year.”