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 opened a stand at Vieux Port Square, a busy street in Marseille, France, and collected signatures for the international campaign. “Defend Kurdistan, PKK is not a terrorist organization but a freedom movement”, read the banner unfurled at the stand.

Activists from the Democratic Kurdish Society Centre in Marseille have collected 11.780 signatures for the campaign so far. The activists called for participation in the march to kick off from Canabier Square at 18:00 tomorrow.

The signature campaign to delist the PKK will continue in Marseille every week.