Signatures are being collected worldwide for the international campaign to remove the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) from the list of terrorist organizations. The campaign for the delisting of the Kurdish liberation movement was launched last November by the international initiative Justice for Kurds and is directed at the Council of the European Union. The goal is four million signatures for the removal of the PKK from the "terror list."

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 initiators argue that the classification of the PKK as terrorist prevents a political solution to the Kurdish question. The campaign petition can also be signed online.

Kurdish activists and their friends continue their individual and collective efforts as part of the worldwide campaign.

A stand was set up in the Swiss canton of Bern to collect signatures for the campaign. The stand covered with the flag of the KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) and a photo of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan was visited by a number of people on Thursday.

In a statement on behalf of the activists, Saadet Kuran highlighted the importance of the current process and called for everyone’s contribution to the struggle of the guerrilla forces.

Kuran, who herself has collected 1100 signatures, stated that Swiss people showed great interest in the signature campaign.