“The Kurdish youth know their duty to draw attention to the situation, against the silence of the mass media, to become one and be the voice of those who are not heard. To remember is to act, to resist is to live.”
Activists from the Kurdish youth movements TCŞ and TekoJIN (Revolutionary Youth Movement and Movement of Combative Young Women) in Hamburg used the football match of FC St.Pauli against Holstein Kiel in the Millerntor Stadium on Tuesday evening to protest against the use of chemical weapons by the Turkish army in Kurdistan and to express their solidarity with the struggle for freedom in Kurdistan.
Large banners reading "JIN JÎYAN AZADÎ", "STOP THE CHEMICAL WEAPONS USE IN KURDISTAN" and "#NOFLYZONE4ROJAVA" attracted a lot of attention during the half-time break. Flags of the PKK and Abdullah Öcalan, who has been held incommunicado on the prison island of Imrali for 23 years as a result of an international plot, were also waved in the stands.
"The youth are in solidarity with the oppressed people in Rojhilat (West Kurdistan, Iran) and are aware that the struggle for women's liberation is deeply rooted in the struggle of the guerrillas. For this reason, the youth also show solidarity with the resistance of the guerrillas, especially in Bashur (South Kurdistan, Iraq) in the area where the fascist government of Turkey has been proven to carry out poison gas attacks. It is the duty of every freedom-loving and democratic person to draw attention to these human rights violations,” the activists said.
“The (Kurdish) youth know their duty to draw attention to the situation, against the silence of the mass media, to become one and be the voice of those who are not heard. To remember is to act, to resist is to live. Werin Cenga Azadiyê."
