The march from the Cizre district of Şırnak to Amed to demand freedom for the Kurdish Leader Abdullah Öcalan is continuing on its 5th day with the participation of not only representatives from NGOs and HDP and DBP branches, but also with the participation of citizens from different ethnic and national backgrounds.

Assyrian and Azeri people who are also joining the march for the freedom of the Kurdish Leader Abdullah Öcalan said the Kurdish leader is the only guarantee of democratic life and a free future for the peoples of the Middle East.

Senherib Küçükaslan (26), an Assyrian, joined the march from Midyat while the marchers had a rest break at Nusaybin on the 4th day. Küçükaslan said Öcalan is the only guarentee for a democratic and free future of the peoples of the Middle East and added: “We, the Assyrians, are proud to stand together with our Kurdish sisters and brothers and to demand freedom for the Kurdish Leader Abdullah Öcalan”.

Küçükaslan said they were serving peace in the Middle East by joining the march, adding that Öcalan must be free to contribute to a peaceful solution in the Middle East.
Another Assyrian, Gorgis Demir (25), holding a placard drawing attention to the Armenian genocide, said Öcalan’s ideology and philosophy brought people together and had been a guarantee for their future. “Mr. Öcalan’s ideas have been a source of hope for the people. Today the resistance against the savagery of ISIS in Rojava is a concretisation of this ideology in practice”.

An Azeri who is joining the march from Van, Ulaş Demir (27), said PKK leader Öcalan’s paradigm for a democratic, ecological society based on freedom of women is based on the liberation of all the peoples of the Middle East and its practical implementation in Rojava comprises all the people living in the region. Demir said the Kurdish Leader Öcalan must be free to contribute to peace in the Middle East at a moment when it has been turned into a bloodbath.