Representatives of various folks and faith groups launched a campaign dubbed 'Êdî bese' (Es reicht-Enough). The campaign led by 51 institutions aims for the federal German government to stop its attacks on the Kurdish people and democracy forces.

The campaign has been launched in a press conference in Berlin on Monday with the motto “We will protect our basic rights by giving a joint struggle”. The press statement announcing the launch and goals of the campaign was read out by Yılmaz Güney from the Centre of Êzidî Associations Union (NAV-YEK).

The press statement called attention to the increasing bans, obstructions and crackdown against the Kurdish people in recent period, saying;

“We do not accept the bans and attacks that target our right to express our opinions and views during our rallies and demonstrations in Germany. We will overcome the bans and obstructions against our political views through our joint struggle.”

The declaration by 51 institutions put emphasis on the essentiality of giving a democracy struggle against bans and pressures that base on the German state’s economic, military and political deals with the Turkish state.

The institutions also underlined that the fascist Erdoğan regime’s war, bombardments and massacres against the peoples of different identities, cultures and faiths in Turkey and Kurdistan are perpetrated with the support of the German state.

“The policies of tension, polarization and animosity among peoples that dictator Erdoğan has imported to Germany receives great support from Merkel’s government today. The German state pursues an extensive policy of bans, arrests and criminalization against Kurds, revolutionary and democratic institutions that fight against fascism.

The PKK ban that enters its 24th year and the ban on Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan’s images, Kurdish flags and symbols has no legitimate and righteous ground. The Merkel government’s efforts to criminalize democracy forces will yield no results.”

Describing the ban on PYD, YPG and YPJ flags as a new dimension added to Erdoğan’s dictatorship and support for ISIS, the institutions said; “The introduction of these bans and dictator Erdoğan’s anti-Kurdish policies is to be a party to the fascist policies of the AKP-MHP.”

Vowing to continue their solidarity with PYD, YPG and YPJ that fight against ISIS barbarism, the institutions made the following call; “We will enhance the peoples’ international solidarity and struggle against the German government’s policies that provide military, economic and political support to fascist Erdoğan dictatorship, against Erdoğan-Merkel collaboration and cooperation between monopolies. We call on all anti-fascist and democratic institutions and establishments that defend human rights, democracy and freedom to give a joint struggle.”

The campaign is organized by the following institutions;

1. KCDK-E / European Kurdish Democratic Society Congress

2. AvEG-KON/ European Confederation of Oppressed Immigrants

3. TJK-E/ European Kurdish Women’s Movement

4. ATIK/ Confederation of Workers from Turkey in Europe

5. NAV-DEM / Democratic Kurdish Society Center

6. HDK-A / People’s Democratic Congress - Europe

7. BAF / European Peace Forum Against War and Dictatorship

8. ADHK / European Democratic Rights Confederation

9. YENİ KADIN (New Women)

10. YDG / New Democratic Youth

11. SKB / Socialist Women’s Unity

12. YS / Young Struggle

13. Yaşanacak Dünya (A World Worth Living)

14. MDDK / Mesopotamian Democratic Change’s Congress (Assyrians)

15. FEDA / Federation of Democratic Alevis

16. ADEF / European Democratic Dersim Unions Federation

17. Ciwanên Azad and Jinen Ciwanên Azad

18. SYKP / Socialist Party of Refoundation

19. TAJE-E/ Movement of Êzidî Women in Europe

20. FDG / European Dersim Associations Federation

21. CIK / Kurdistan Islamic Society

22. NAV-YEK / European Êzidî Associations

23. Green Left Party

24. Revolutionary Party Europe

25. ISKU

26. YXK / Kurdistan Students Union

27. KOMEW Families of the Disappeared and Victims

28. Shengal Êzidî Assembly Dervaye Welat

29. European Maras Initiative

30. European Kürecik People’s Initiative

31. Dersim Reconstruction Initiative

32. Düsseldorf for Kurdistan

33. IL- Intervenstionische Linke

34. FIDEF / Federation of Workers Unions from Turkey

35. TATORT - KURDISTAN

36. AKKUSTAN

37. KV Die Linke Düsseldorf

38. NRW Landesverband Die Linke

39. PYD Europe

40. Zagros Platform

41. PEKAN / Platform of Central Anatolia Kurds

42. NOR-ZARTOK

43. Platform of the Prisoners’ Voice

44. Kurdistan-Solidarity Committee Berlin

45. MLPD (Marxist Leninist Party of Germany)

47. CENI e.V (Kurdish Women’s Peace Bureau)

48. Mesopotamian Freedom Party (Assyrians)

49. European Assembly of the Exiled

50. European Platform of Black Sea

51. VVN-BdA Düsseldorf