The Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) has issued a statement on the NATO summit in Madrid. A statement issued by the PKK's Foreign Relations Committee on Wednesday said, "The fact that the achievements, the values, the freedom and the struggle of the Kurdish people are being turned into a bargaining chip for NATO enlargement is a declaration of enmity against the Kurdish people. The agreement reached in Madrid between Finland, Sweden and Turkey on the policy set by the Turkish government shows the hypocrisy of a system that calls itself a "Western democracy".

The PKK Committee further stated: "The true face of this system has thus been shown once again. The support for the Kurds decided by the Swedish Social Democrats at their party congress has been undermined and it has become clear that anything can be negotiated for the sake of own profits. This is also an injustice against their own members and society in Sweden.

NATO has agreed in Madrid to support and adopt the policy of massacres and genocide conducted by the Turkish state against the Kurdish people for a hundred years. Kurdistan has been turned into a colony through the Lausanne Agreement. The Kurds are denied and annihilated on their own land. Today, it is the Kurdish people who are enforcing democracy in the Turkish state with a high political consciousness and in an organised way. No power in the world will be able to defeat this people.

In the face of the Kurdish liberation struggle, the fascist Turkish regime cannot stop its collapse and, for this reason, seeks international support to carry out genocide. NATO has been supporting the Republic of Turkey by all means since 1985. The Kurdish liberation movement is nevertheless at the peak of its history today. The Kurdish people have millions of friends in Sweden, Finland and all over the world. Together they will fight even harder for peace and democracy, against all those who give the fascist Turkish state the green light for genocide against the Kurds."