DTK: 2019 will be a year of resistance and achievements

“The resistance, based in Rojava against the genocidal occupation and elimination policies carried out by regional and international forces has been the light and inspiration for the future of the whole Middle East.”

The Democratic Society Congress (DTK) released its new year message.

In the message, the DTK said: “The international imperial powers, the dictators of the Middle East and their terrorist mercenaries have deepened the practices of massacre, genocide and forced displacement against the peoples of the Middle East in 2018.”

The statement added: “In 2018, the AKP-MHP fascism has carried out policies of genocide, political repression in Northern Kurdistan and against all democratic forces in Turkey. Likewise the practice of absolute isolation imposed on the Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan was deepened.”

Yet, said the statement: “2018 was mainly marked by the struggle against these fascist-colonialist policies to promote instead freedom, justice and democracy. All the dynamics of the Kurdish Freedom Struggle have made 2018 a great year of resistance in all areas.”

Leyla Güven’s action prompted many to protest

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The resistance, based in Rojava against the genocidal occupation and elimination policies carried out by regional and international forces, said the statement “has been the light and inspiration for the future of the whole Middle East.”

DTK ended its statement by wishing “2019 to be a year of growing resistance and achievements.”