Solution Tent in Dersim

Solution Tent in Dersim

Democratic Free Women's Movement (DÖKH) put up a "Democratic liberation and solution" tent at Seyit Rıza Square of Dersim to inform the public about the "resolution process" and to discuss the process of "withdrawal" of HPG (People's Defense Forces) guerrillas across Turkish borders as of 8 May.

Posters of Sakine Cansız, a co-founder of PKK (Kurdistan Workers' Party), Fidan Doğan, KNK (Kurdistan National Congress) Paris representative, and Leyla Şaylemez, member of the Kurdish youth movement, were also hanged in the area of the tent which is visited by hundreds of people every day.

Speaking here, Peace and Democracy Party (BDP) Batman deputy Ayla Akat stated that Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan's liberation was the primary demand of the Kurdish people in the ongoing process of talks aimed at a democratic solution to the Kurdish question. Akat stated that Kurds also demanded the recognition of all ethnic identities, religions and beliefs by an equalitarian constitution.

Members of Peace Mothers Initiative from Amed and Istanbul have also arrived in Dersim to join the vigil at the "Democratic liberation and solution" tent in Dersim.

Mothers visited the grave of Sakine Cansız who was buried in her hometown Dersim after being brought from Paris where she was executed on 9 January together with Doğan and Şaylemez. Mothers lamented for Cansız and lit candles near her grave.

Mothers also visited the graves of HPG (People's Defense Forces) guerrillas buried in the same cemetery.