The KCDK-E (European Kurdish Democratic Societies Congress) co-presidency council issued a written statement concerning HDP Hakkari MP and DTK co-chair Leyla Güven, who was imprisoned in Turkey on Tuesday. The statement emphasised that the will of the Kurdish people is attacked in the person of Leyla Güven and Turkey has been transformed into an open prison where the Imrali isolation system continues and an empire of fear is established.

"THEY HAVE ARRESTED AN ELECTED MP TO SILENCE THE SOCIETY"

KCDK-E pointed out that; “The fascist Erdogan regime is trying to prolong its life by persecuting the Kurdish people, women, children, elderly, workers, unemployed, poor, intellectuals, democrats, and the opposition with a rampant fascism to cover up the crises and failures it has experienced, and the terror it continues at home and abroad. It is making the fascist cruelty even more felt by arresting the elected people in order to silence the society, seizing the municipalities won by the people's votes one by one, and appointing thief trustees.”

'PRISONERS REVOLTED IN THE SPIRIT OF AMED PRISON'

Pointing to the Turkish government’s attempts to intimidate the society , the statement continued; “The children of the Kurdish people respond to this oppression. Kurdish women respond to these attacks with the slogans "Jin Jiyan Azadi" (Woman, Life, Freedom). In Turkey, workers, laborers, women, dissidents, revolutionaries, democrats and intellectuals are raising their voices. Political prisoners, who rebelled against fascism in the spirit of Amed (Diyarbakır) prison, respond with the slogan "inside is outside, outside is inside". The fascist Erdogan regime is desperate, shaking, collapsing and coming to an end. It is attacking pointlessly. It wants to show its strength by targeting the pioneers of the people and women. That is why it targeted DTK co-chair Leyla Güven.”

'DTK IS CRIMINALIZED'

Remarking that Erdogan is constantly targeting DTK claiming that it is a "structure of the PKK", KCDK-E said: "The criminalization of the DTK is aimed at obscuring its social role and reality. Leyla Güven is taken prisoner because of this fascist mentality. It is not coincidental that the DTK, which has taken important steps for national unity, is targeted at a time when an all-out attack against the Kurdish people in all parts and genocide plans have been introduced.”

'PROTEST WHEREVER YOU ARE'

KCDK-E added: “The Kurdish people and their children, intellectuals, opponents, revolutionaries, democrats, women, laborers, the unemployed will not bow to the fascist Erdogan regime and fascist terror. The women's freedom line and the struggle for freedom captured in the person of Leyla Güven will not take a step back from its determined struggle. As KCDK-E, we call on our people, all revolutionary, democratic, intellectual and opposition groups to protest wherever they are and to expose the anti-Kurdish and dictatorial face of the fascist Erdogan regime in public. Let's mobilize for actions to endorse DTK and Leyla Güven wherever we are.”