Kurdish youth organizations visit Slovenian young people

Kurdish youth organizations went to Slovenia as part of a 5-day program to exchange experiences and cultural activities.

Representatives of the Kurdistan Youth Diplomatic Committee and the Kurdish Students Union (Yekîtiya Xwendekarên Kurdistan-YXK) went to Ljubljana, Slovenia as part of a 5-day program and were received by the youth organization MAO (Mladinska Aktivistična Organizacija) and the student association LDŠ (Lista Demokratičneva Študent).

The 5-day program started with a city tour of Ljubljana. Young people followed the traces of the anti-fascist resistance during the Second World War and the era of real socialism in Slovenia.

The next day, approximately 60 visitors gathered in public seminar sessions to learn more about the history of the Kurdish freedom movement, the ideological basis of Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan's philosophy, and the role of youth as leading forces in the revolutionary process. Discussions continued in the following days, focusing in particular on the methodological principles and organizational forms of the Kurdish Freedom Movement.

Youth and student movements, experiences on relevant working methods were shared and cooperation opportunities were discussed.

At the end of the trip, Slovenian youth organizations organised a tour in the mountains for the visiting delegation. Those mountains served as retreats for Slovenian partisans during the Italian and German occupation.

In the evening, the movie Ji bo Azadiyê was screened.