A demonstration was organised yesterday in Bremen calling for the ban on the PKK in Germany to be lifted.

A special session of the Federal Parliament in Germany is to discuss the ban on the PKK, which has been in force in Germany since 1993. This follows a motion put down by the Left Party (Die Linke). Priort to the session, a demonstration calling for the ban to be lifted took place in Bremen yesterday.

The demonstration was organised by the Solidarity Platform for Kurdistan, set up by German left democrats. It was supported by NAV-DEM, the Left Party, Communist Party and DIDF and attended by hundreds of Kurds and their friends.

On the march leaflets describing how the PKK had been banned in an illegal way, and how the freedom demands of the Kurdish people had been criminalised, were distributed.

The leaflets demanded the immediate lifting of the ban on the PKK, and drew attention to the Turkish collaboration with ISIS attacks on Sinjar and Kobanê. Slogans in support of the struggle in Kobanê and Sinjar were shouted on the demonstration and flags of the YPG, YPJ and KCK were carried.

The march ended in front of the HBF where a rally was held.