While the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) and the Kurdistan Communities Union (KCK) are calling for Kurdish unity to stop the genocide of the Kurdish people, to make their voices heard at the international level and to prevent an inner-Kurdish war, the Barzani-dominated KDP (Kurdistan Democratic Party) in South Kurdistan is working with the Turkish state and its secret service MIT and is doing the exact opposite.

The KDP official Elî Ewnî openly called for the murder of leading PKK members during a TV appearance on a Barzani family channel. Ewnî explained that the Turkish army and MIT are capable of targeting people with drones and questioned why the PKK leadership is not being eliminated with drones.

This call for murder was not an individual initiative by a KDP official, it characterizes the politics of the Barzani family. The Association of Students from Kurdistan (YXK) has issued a statement protesting such declarations.

Elî Ewnî, member of the Central Committee of the KDP said: "I say it to the leaders of the Turkish state. You can use drones, the airway and by means of the Internet to locate the members of the PKK in the tens of thousands of cars going to Ahmedawa and bomb them. Don't you know the leaders and vanguards of the PKK who come and go to Turkey through Ranya, Derbindaxan, Qeladizê and Bradost?" 

The statement by the Association of Students from Kurdistan reads as follows: 

"It was with great dismay and deep anger that we learned of the statements of Elî Ewnî, member of the Central Committee of the KDP, on 16th August 2023. These words have a great impact and should not be ignored. Therefore, as a representation of Kurdish students in Europe, we do not want to leave these statements unanswered.

For almost three years now, the members and leaders of the PKK have been defending our Kurdistan from the Turkish occupiers. These young and brave daughters and sons of the Kurdish people defend Kurdish soil with their own lives. They are fighting against a cruel enemy that uses high-tech and prohibited means of combat, such as drones, fighter planes, poisonous gases and tactical nuclear weapons. In the centenary year of the Lausanne Treaty, the AKP/MHP regime wants to renew the genocide against the Kurdish people. There exists an international conspiracy against the Kurdish people. All the achievements of the Kurdish people are at stake. Our resistant people, the unstoppable youth and the fighting women are opposed to this extermination plan.

With what conscience does Elî Ewnî, as a Kurd and as an official of a Kurdish party, wish for the death of these Kurdish resistance fighters? Does Elî Ewnî not have even a little respect for himself and our people when he calls on the Turkish state to murder the daughters and sons of the Kurdish people?

We are not surprised that a member of the KDP would make such statements. Not only is the KDP committing treason against Kurdistan and the Kurdish people by helping the Turkish occupation army, instead they are now calling on the enemy to commit massacres against our people.

As Kurdish students, we reject this! We accept neither the Turkish occupation nor the reality of the KDP. No money, no promise is acceptable to tolerate a Turkish colonial occupation. But the KDP not only accepts it, no, they actively support the Turkish occupation in South Kurdistan and even Efrin. While our people are resisting IS in Rojava, fighting fascism in Bakur, revolting in Rojhilat and the guerrillas in Zap, Avaşin and Metina are fighting against the Turkish occupation, the Barzanis are enriching themselves in trade with Turkish colonialism, earning billions by cooperating with European and American companies and ruling South Kurdistan like a mafia.

The Kurdish public must no longer accept this. In the centenary year of the Lausanne Treaty, the question of national unity in Kurdistan arises with the utmost urgency. Only the day before yesterday, Murat Karayilan, commander of the People's Defense Units (NPG) headquarters, declared in his August 15 address: "Preserve your unity. National unity is undoubtedly important for all four parts of Kurdistan. But each part of Kurdistan must ensure its unity internally and build its organization, and must not remain silent in the face of hostile practices, but defend itself." This stance does justice to the thousands of martyrs of Kurdistan. The KDP and the Barzanis should be ashamed that they are working for the Turkish state, that they are stealing from and lying to the Kurdish people.

We also appeal to all Kurds who believe the lies of the KDP and the Barzanis: The KDP does not want national unity, it wants autocracy over Kurdistan! With what force does it want to achieve this? The peshmerga of the KDP have not even fought one day against the Islamic State (IS) and left at the first difficulty. They have abandoned our Yezidi people. Do you expect these people to defend Kurdistan? They are not even now defending Kurdistan against the enemy. They are supporting the Turkish occupation in Southern Kurdistan and Efrin.

The KDP is not only incompetent, but it is unworthy of determining the future of Kurdistan. The autonomy of South Kurdistan is a first step. But why was this status granted by international forces? And why is the KDP content with this small step? Because the KDP puts itself at the service of NATO and betrays its own people for money and trade. What has the KDP made of this autonomous status in the last decades? Our country is exploited by European and Turkish companies, the nature of South Kurdistan is destroyed every day, our people in South Kurdistan live in poverty, our youth has no prospects and the situation of women is one of the worst in the region.

Do you define this as Kurdish national pride? Not us! We are proud of the never-ending and fearless resistance of the guerrillas! We are proud of the Kurdish women's and youth's uprising, which is scaring away the colonialists and occupiers in all four parts. We are proud of the attitude and philosophy of Rêber APO, who understands the deep history of our country and its societies and proposes ways for true liberation!

In this sense, we as Kurdish students in Europe declare that Elî Ewnî, member of the Central Committee of the KDP, has attacked and hurt the revolutionary feelings of our people by calling on the Turkish state to assassinate Kurdish freedom fighters. We call on the entire public to put pressure on the KDP to end its cooperation with Turkish colonialism.

Let us remember: Surrender leads to betrayal, resistance leads to victory!"