Young activists completed the third day of the Long March. This year’s slogan is "Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan, political solution to the Kurdish question”. The march is organized by the Kurdish youth movements and internationalist young people. Today the young activists will march to Essen.

On Wednesday night, the activists attended a tribute to the Kurdish Freedom Martyrs at the Dortmund Democratic Society Center.

At the commemoration, which began with a minute’s silence, Jinên Ciwanên Tekoşer (TekoJIN) member Şîlan Pelşîn said that they carried out the Long March also for many martyrs such as Martyr Rustem, Tavîn, Berjîn, Lecwan, Dîdar, Pelşîn, and added: "The martyrs saw that there was no life worth living in the heart of the capitalist system and went in search for freedom. The Long March is the legacy of these martyrs."

Ayten Sünger, mother of a martyr, said: "We promise that we will establish the free world they dream of."

Xoşnav Ata, father of a martyr, said that the best response to the enemy in order to avenge every martyr is to take the struggle one step further. Ata said that "the occupying states attacked the guerrillas with chemical weapons and technology they received from Europe,” and underlined that young people should organize more on the path of the struggle that the martyrs left them."

Artist Hozan Comerd, who is also the father of two martyrs, said that the revolutionary march is a march of truth and freedom, a march of martyrs.

Hozan Comerd greeted young people who are walking on the path of the Kurdistan Freedom Movement, which is fighting for the liberation of all humanity.

Rustem Serhed noted that they will carry the struggle further.

Following the speeches, a video showing Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan's assessments of the martyrs and the struggle messages of many martyrs were shown.

The commemoration ended with the song "Ez Şehîd im" sung by Hozan Comerd.