Peace in Kurdistan Campaign has issued a press release to express its condemnation of the killing and its solidarity with Black Lives Matter. 

The statement said: "The actions of the police reflected the harsh reality of racist violence that still persists in what is supposed to be the most advanced economy in the modern world, one that claims to be a model of freedom and democracy worthy of emulation by other supposedly weaker civilisations on each and every continent." 

The statement continued: "The poor and oppressed everywhere have been awakened by witnessing the fate of George Floyd who died a brutal death simply because he was black. The Kurds share the pain of the black population of America."

Both peoples, added the statement, "far too often still suffer the fate of being treated as their country’s second-class citizens. Turkey and the United States are close allies. It is not only a military alliance that they share. The two states share a kinship in the grotesquely brutal methods they use to exercise control over the restive downtrodden populations of black people and Kurds."

Peace in Kurdistan reiterated its "solidarity with the growing wave of opposition to racist power and discrimination in all its forms in America and everywhere. By means of stepping up solidarity action justice will surely prevail. A great wave of change has been unleashed whose power cannot be contained."