Paris City Council member and Left Party Co-coordinator General Danielle Simonnet called on the municipality to take initiative with the government to pressure Turkey.

Simonnet, who is also the National Spokesperson for La France Insoumise (“Unbowing France”) which is a prominent umbrella organization for France’s left, spoke in the council meeting and pointed to the hunger strikes and threats of invasion against Rojava.

Simonnet said she went to Amed to follow Leyla Guven’s hearing on January 25, and adding that Guven has been on a hunger strike, continued: “What is this demand that she risks her own life for? She demands an end to the isolation imposed upon Abdullah Ocalan, the Mandela of Kurdish people.”

Simonnet said the Erdogan regime has renewed their threats against Rojava following US President Donald Trump’s decision to withdraw from Syria: “This won’t just be a massacre for Kurds, it will also create a calamity in the sense that it will remove the only possibility for a solution in Rojava.”

Simonnet said the Rojava project is “a pluralist project of peace, and a feminist and communalist project at the same time”.

Simonnet concluded with stressing the necessity to support Leyla Guven and in her person the struggle itself, and called on the Paris City Council to take initiative with the government to pressure Turkey. Simonnet said there are 10.000 political prisoners “in 2 hours distance from Paris” and added: “We need to intervene.”