The Spanish party Podemos issued a statement underwriting “the international appeal made by the Progressive International and other international delegations that visited Kurdistan and expressed solidarity with the Kurdish people.

The statement said “We demand firm and decisive action from the European Union to prevent further Turkish invasions against Kurdish populations. Once again, we express our solidarity with the detained and persecuted HDP representatives. From Podemos we demand compliance with international law and a determined policy based on human rights to achieve peace and justice for the Kurdish people. The Government of Turkey must return to the negotiating table, cease internal repression against all types of opposition and once again respect the rights of women in its country and around the world, which require it to return to the Istanbul Convention.”

In recent weeks, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has intensified his aggression against the Kurdish people by launching a bombing campaign in Iraq and threatening to launch a new invasion of Syria. In addition, the Government of Turkey has increased the repression against the Peoples' Democratic Party (HDP) in Turkey and has taken advantage of the request for entry from Finland and Sweden to demand that they repress Kurdish solidarity in Europe.

On 18 April, Erdoğan launched an air and ground offensive against Kurdish forces in Iraq and Syria. Since then, Turkish forces have intensified shelling of civilian areas across northern and eastern Syria.

President Erdoğan announced on 24 May his intention to occupy a 30 km "safe zone" for the forced accommodation of refugees, as a pretext for his attempt to ethnically cleanse the approximately 2.5 million people living in the area.