Kurds living in Sydney, Australia celebrated Kurdish New Year Newroz. The event in front of the Democratic Kurdish Community Centre, where families of martyrs lit Newroz fire, began with a minute’s silence.

Members of the people’s council and the institution representatives attended the event while a mass celebration couldn’t be organised despite as part of measures against the coronavirus pandemic.

A speech made at the event wished a happy Newroz to the peoples of Kurdistan and hoped that the Newroz would conduce toward the freedom of Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan and peace in Kurdistan and the world.