CAMPACC said: “Led by the PKK, the Kurdish freedom movement has publicly demonstrated its crucial role as a counter-terror force, resisting the Turkish army’s domestic aggression and its allies’ attacks on Rojava.”
The Campaign Against Criminalising Communities (CAMPACC) sent a solidarity message with the Berlin march which will take place today.
In its statement that CAMPACC said: “As we know from our experience in the UK, the state uses the ban to intimidate Kurdish communities from speaking out against the state terrorism of Turkey and against its support for terrorist groups in Syria”.
The statement continued: “In Germany and here alike, community resistance has defied the intimidation, thus undermining the ban as a political weapon and highlighting the Kurds’ freedom struggle in the Middle East. Our common campaign against the state ban has provided an opportunity to gain attention and support for that struggle.”
The CAMPACC added: “Led by the PKK, the Kurdish freedom movement has publicly demonstrated its crucial role as a counter-terror force, resisting the Turkish army’s domestic aggression and its allies’ attacks on Rojava.
It has implemented Abdullah Ocalan’s principles of democratic autonomy and democratic confederalism, showing the way towards a future society based on justice, equal rights, feminism, ecology, democratisation and reconciliation.
This model has attracted people from all ethnic and religious backgrounds in the Middle East.”
To support that struggle, said CAMPACC “we in Europe must oppose our own governments’ complicity with reactionary anti-democratic forces in the Middle East.”
In particular, the statement ended, “the ban on the PKK serves to portray Turkey as a counter-terror force, thus demonising the PKK and inverting political reality.
We send our best wishes to the 1 December demonstration, towards a common fight against the PKK ban here.”
