The 'disciplinary punishment' against Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan in Imrali Prison and the Turkish attacks in South Kurdistan have been protested in the Şehit Rustem Cudi Refugee Camp (Maxmur).

Following a moment of silence for all the martyrs of the Kurdistan Freedom Movement, a statement was read out by Maxmur People's Assembly Co-Chair Filiz Budak at the Martyrs’ Families Association office.

'SYSTEMATIC TORTURE AT IMRALI'

Filiz Budak recalled that no information has been received from Abdullah Öcalan for about a year.

“The last contact with Öcalan was through a short phone call on March 25, 2021. The isolation at Imrali is executed in front of the whole world and the international community, who pretends to protect human rights, yet no one rejects this situation. The isolation at Imrali has turned into 24-hour systematic torture. This 23-year-old torture system is being carried out in the most brutal way against the will of millions of people. Öcalan is the voice of women, young people, internationalists, and millions of people who want to live in a free country. The Kurdish leader introduced a paradigm that has become an alternative to the authoritarian systems that destroy humanity, morality and nature. The torture system at Imrali continues to this day in order to prevent Öcalan’s paradigm from spreading all over the world. The guerrillas of the Kurdistan Freedom Movement are fighting day and night to break the isolation imposed on our people.”

INVASION ATTACKS

Budak continued, “The recent Turkish attacks on South Kurdistan and the Turkish military bases built in the region are a huge embarrassment. A war that the Barzani family will wage in South Kurdistan in cooperation with the Turkish state will not only be a civil war among the Kurds. It will also be a full betrayal to the Kurds.

We urge the Kurdish people, all peoples who seek freedom, women and young people to go into action to remove the isolation at Imrali and to stop the occupation of Kurdish lands.”