Organized by the Yazidi women's movement, activists collected signatures at a stand in front of the Rhein-Galerie in Saarbrücken for the removal of the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) from the list of terrorist organizations. Brochures with Abdullah Öcalan's ideas on various topics such as "Democratic Confederalism", women's liberation, "Democratic Nation" and others were offered at the stand. The activists spoke with interested people about the current situation in Kurdistan and the background of the signature campaign.

The campaign was launched at the end of last year by the international Justice for Kurds initiative. Among the first signatories of the petition are over a thousand personalities from thirty different countries, including Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek, the Afghan women's rights activist Selay Ghaffar, Hamburg-based international law expert Norman Paech, and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek.

The campaign is being conducted in many countries around the world. The signatures collected will be submitted to the Council of Europe and U.S. institutions. The initiators argue that the classification of the PKK as terrorist prevents a political solution to the Kurdish question. The PKK will also apply to the Federal Ministry of the Interior to lift its ban on activities in Germany. In the course of the ban, which was issued in 1993, politically active Kurds and people showing solidarity are under general suspicion.

The PKK was included on the EU's "terror list" after being banned in Germany in 2002. A case brought by PKK members Murat Karayilan and Duran Kalkan has been pending before the European Court of Justice in Luxembourg since 2014. The last hearing took place on March 31, and a verdict is expected within the next seven months.