The KCK (Kurdistan Communitie Union) Executive Co-Presidency has issued a statement celebrating the 36th anniversary of the founding of the Partîya Karkerên Kurdistan (PKK, Kurdistan Worker's Party), stressing that the struggle led by Leader Apo actually goes back 40 years.

The KCK Executive Co-Presidency said the PKK is the creator and guarantor of democratic and free life, and called on the Kurdish people and the peoples of the Middle East to unite around Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan’s philosophical, ideological, theoretical and political line and step up the struggle.

‘The PKK is the party of martyrs’

The KCK statement said: “The PKK is a party whose values were created by its martyrs”, stressing that the PKK had waged a freedom struggle for a people on the verge of oblivion, and become a beacon of hope for all the peoples of the region, not just the Kurdish people.

The statement continued, saying the PKK would in its 37th year develop the democratic struggle and open the way to a free and democratic life in the Middle East.

“If the Kurds are now in the vanguard of the struggle for democracy and freedom in the Middle East, having been in the most backward position 40 years ago, this is undoubtedly due to the determining role played by the PKK,” it added.

‘The PKK is the guarantor of a free life’

The statement stressed that the PKK was a party that was accustomed to waging successful struggle in the harshest conditions, adding that the PKK had emerged on the historical stage to accomplish the revolution of the people of Kurdistan. “Therefore, no hardship has been able to prevent the Freedom Struggle led by the PKK,” the statement continued, adding that the PKK has become the creator and guarantor of democratic life in all four parts of Kurdistan.

The KCK statement continued, saying: “A few years ago Leader Apo said: ‘our struggle so far was only a preparation. The real struggle begins now’. In this context, the PKK is aware that it has a historic responsibility towards all the peoples, faiths and cultures of the Middle East and will wage a struggle to develop the struggle for a free and democratic life throughout the Middle East.”

The statement stressed that the revolution realised by the Kurdish people in Rojava and the resistance in Sinjar, Makhmour, Kirkuk and Kobanê had demonstrated the invincibility of the PKK's form of struggle.

'Call to step up the struggle'

The KCK statement concluded with the following appeal: "We commemorate once again all those heroes who have fallen in the struggle led by the PKK and inspired by leader Apo, and call on the peoples of the Middle East to unite around Leader Apo’s philosophical, ideological, theoretical and political line and step up the struggle in the 37th year of the party.”