The fight the PKK (Kurdistan Worker's Party) has been giving against the barbarian ISIS gangs in the wake of the attacks on Sinjar on 3 August and on Kobanê on 15 September has brought into question the criminalisation of the Kurdish armed movement across Europe.

The struggle of the PKK against the ISIS hasn't only saved the life of tens of thousands in both Sinjar and Kobanê, but also not allowed the gangs to succeed in their plan to capture the regions inhabited by Kurds and other minorities and communities by means of savage massacres. The Kurds have been the only force standing and fighting against the ISIS that continue to be a threat to all humanity, having unrestrainedly killed numerous people in many parts of South and West Kurdistan already.

As debates on the ongoing criminalisation of the Kurdish armed movement continue across Europe, also in Germany on the 21st year of the ban on the PKK that was imposed in 1993, Aymeri de Montesquiou, member of the Senate of Rance and mayor of the Marsan town, also highlighted the need to remove the PKK from the terrorist list.

In an article published by Atlantico.fr, the French senator pointed out that it is absurd to maintain the PKK in the list of terrorist organizations, while it is the first relay of resistance against the Islamic state.

The PKK must be got out from the terrorist list through either NATO or the OSCE or the UN, Aymeri de Montesquiou said, pointing out that it would be totally ironic that the Kurdish PKK, PYD and Peshmerga , the only ones to risk their lives to fight against and eliminate Daesh, are banned by European Union and the United States.

The French senator also recalled that the ISIS now threatened Syria, Iraq and probably Lebanon and had considerable financial resources, especially conquered oil fields in these countries, and $ 430 million they stole in banks they looted in Mosul.

Noting that the ISIS obviously has the power to export terrorism to Europe, Aymeri de Montesquiou said there were estimated 10,000 Westerners appearing in their ranks.

It is reasonable to consider that the PKK wants peace, Montesquiou said and reminded that 32 civilians, including children, were killed and hundreds of people were injured during last month's protests across Turkey and North Kurdistan in solidarity with the Kobanê resistance and in demand of opening of a humanitarian corridor into Kobanê, without this resulting of reprisals by the PKK.

"Let us keep in mind that in this boiling region of the Middle East where Shiites and Sunnis are in confrontation, and where ISIS wants to eliminate all those who are not fundamentalist Sunni, Kurds are tolerant of the religion of others, and many of them would lean rather secularism", the French senator said.

Remarking that Mosul and many cities have fallen, and that Kobanê is in great danger, Montesquiou continued; “Only the PKK and the PYD reinforced by peshmerga are protecting Kobanê. Without them and the US strikes, Erbil, Dohuk and other cities would have also fallen. Let us be consistent, one can not on the one hand support the PKK by air strikes and on the other imprison its members as terrorist suspects while no military action on their part never happened in Europe and the United States."

The French senator ended, suggesting the removal of the PKK from the terrorist list "to provide them with the weapons they vitally need to be our first line of defense. Let's do it to defend our values and to stop attacks against humanity", he added.