Over a thousand international personalities got together in 30 countries responding to the call by the International Justice Initiative for the Kurds, to demand the removal of the PKK from the list of terrorist organizations. The campaign was launched on 13 December 2021 and is carried out in Europe, the US, Canada and Australia. The campaign aims to collect four million signatures. Signatures will be submitted to human rights institutions in the Council of Europe and the US. Since the beginning, the signature campaign has spread to many parts of the world and has received great support.

Within the scope of the campaign, intellectuals, writers, artists, politicians, academics came together in Sulaymaniyah on 29 January  and decided to carry out the campaign in the Kurdistan Region. Since the first day, non-governmental organizations, intellectuals, writers and the public from Sulaymaniyah, Hewlêr, Germiyan, Kelar and many other places have given great support to the campaign.

The Campaign Committee held a press conference in Sulaymaniyah where Kurdish politician Mihemed Emin Pênciwênî, a member of the committee, spoke and said the following:

“We have collected a million signatures in the first stage, in almost seven months. In addition to citizens, a number of intellectuals, artists and politicians have supported the campaign, which will continue further.”

Pêncwênî said that the next stage of the campaign will be run on the internet. “Once the target number is reached, the signatures will be submitted to the European Court of Human Rights and the United Nations demanding that the PKK be removed from the list and Leader Abdullah Öcalan is freed.”