Andrea Wolf, nom de gueere Ronahî, was murdered by the Turkish state on the 23rd of October 1998 together with 24 of her comrades in Northern Kurdistan. Ronahî was a German revolutionary that had joined the PKK movement. In 1996, she stayed at the Academy of Şehîd Mahsum Korkmaz in Damascus with Rêber Apo (Abdullah Öcalan). Learning from him, she gained a perspective on internationalism and the revolution in Europe as well as on the freedom of the Kurdish people. Here Ronahi gave her promise to follow and deepen the revolutionary path. Afterwards, she went to the free mountains of Kurdistan and took her place as a member of the free women's army YAJK in the war against the occupiers of Kurdish soil. On 23 October 1998, Ronahî was captured, interrogated, abused and then executed in a massacre by the Turkish army near the village of Keleş in Çatak district of Van province. Along with her, at least 24 other guerrillas died that day. Ronahî got her code name from Şehîd Ronahî (Bedriye Taş) who set herself on fire in Germany on Newroz 1994 together with Şehîd Bêrîvan (Nîlgûn Yildirim). This action was directed against the banning of the PKK and the Kurdish liberation struggle by the German state, as a consequence of which many comrades were put in prison.

Last Sunday, many people gathered in the Sallbau in Frankfurt to commemorate the internationalist guerrilla Ronahî and all her friends who died in the Kurdish struggle for freedom. Friends of Ronahî from Munich reported in their message that on 22 October, they remembered Andrea together in the mountains of the Swiss Jura in the memorial grove for the internationalists who lost their lives in Kurdistan and erected a memorial plaque.

The greeting reads:

“Dear friends and comrades,

25 years ago, as friends of Andrea Wolf, who is known in Kurdistan as Ronahî, we said:

The perpetrators and war criminals of the massacres in Kurdistan must be brought to justice, no matter how long it takes!

The experiences of the international struggles against human rights and war violations, whether in Chile, Argentina, South Africa or Turkey, show that we need staying power, and it can take decades before the perpetrators can be brought to justice.

After 12 years, the Andrea Wolf International Commission of Inquiry achieved a first legal and political success in 2010: the European Court of Human Rights condemned Turkey and confirmed our research on war crimes. However, our interventions from 2011 to 2014 with the Turkish and German judiciary to launch serious investigations against the killers and their clients in Ankara were ended in 2015 by Erdogan's decision to go to war. For the time being, there is no room for legal punishment of the perpetrators.

We therefore want to thank all those who have accompanied us on this long road so far and who continue to do so - as representatives of the many, we want to remember Lilo Wolf, Andrea's mother, and our long-time lawyer Angelika Lex, who both died far too early, as well as the comrades in the Kurdish mountains who have always supported us and created a large memorial in 2013.

In the struggle for a more just world for all people worldwide, remembering our friends and comrades is infinitely important, because it is always also about why certain people stood up to fight for a more just world.

That is why the rulers of Turkish fascism have the living murdered and even the dead and their graves bombed. Because they want to erase not only their lives, but also their ideas.

Therefore, last Sunday, on 22 October, we commemorated Andrea together in the mountains of the Swiss Jura in the memorial grove for the internationalists who died in Rojava and Kurdistan and put up a plaque, which reads the following in Kurdish and German next to a photo of Andrea/Ronahî: "Without justice - no peace. Your memory accompanies us on our common path into the future, July 2014".

This plaque is proof of an identical plaque that we put up during our last visit to the memorial named after our friend and comrade, the Andrea Wolf/Ronahî Cemetery of Martyrs in the mountains of Kurdistan. At that time, in the mountains near Keleh, which had been liberated by the Kurdish guerrillas, the first displaced farmers and nomads came back, rebuilt their houses destroyed by the Turkish military and we could see the return of the forests and animals. Only one year later, the Turkish president again turned to war after the election success of the pro-Kurdish HDP. On Sunday, 29 November 2015, the Turkish military also bombed and destroyed the cemetery named after our friend Andrea, as well as the memorial and documentation centre, using helicopters, warplanes and grenades. The Turkish-German brotherhood of arms made this possible in the first place. On 1 November 2015, Angela Merkel sealed the EU's bloody deal with Turkey against refugees in Ankara.

"Andrea loved life as much as she hated the prevailing conditions," we said in our eulogy at our demonstration in memory of the Soviet Revolution of 1918 on 7 November 1998 in Munich's Theresienwiese. In 1918, the slogan "Everything to everyone" was shouted, meaning everything should belong to everyone. This demand has been resurfacing for years in more and more struggles for social justice, international solidarity and against the racist Fortress Europe!

Andrea would have been just as happy to witness this as the fact that today people are setting out from all over the world to build a different society in Rojava and Kurdistan. In this sense, we want to "Remember - Commemorate - Fight: Against all forms of fascism, patriarchy, capitalism and racism" - whether in Kurdistan, Turkey, Germany or anywhere else.

Freedom for all political prisoners

Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan

For a political solution to the Kurdish question

Hail to international solidarity

Everything to All - Freedom and Happiness!”