Signatures are being collected worldwide for the international campaign to remove the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) from the list of terrorist organizations. The campaign for the delisting of the Kurdish liberation movement was launched last November by the international initiative Justice for Kurds and is directed at the Council of the European Union. The goal is four million signatures for the removal of the PKK from the "terror list."

Among the first signatories of the petition are over a thousand personalities from thirty different countries, including Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek, the Afghan women's rights activist Selay Ghaffar, Hamburg-based international law expert Norman Paech, and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek. The initiators argue that the classification of the PKK as terrorist prevents a political solution to the Kurdish question. The campaign petition can also be signed online.

Kurdish activists and their friends continue their individual and collective efforts as part of the worldwide campaign.

Activists taking part in the campaign in Paris are collecting signatures in the busiest places of the French capital on a daily basis.

The activists joined by internationalists have collected signatures at the University Paris 8 today. French leaflets promoting the physical freedom of the Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan were handed out at a stand which drew remarkable interest.

The activists stated that they have collected hundreds of signatures so far, vowing that they would continue their work to expand the campaign every day.