Tens of thousands took to the streets to mark the World Peace Day on Sunday.

More than 50,000 people gathered on September 1 at the İstasyon Square in the main Kurdish city Amed (Diyarbakır) to remind the government of Recep Tayyip Erdogan of their unfulfilled commitments to the peace process and to display solidarity with the Rojava revolution in western Kurdistan, the Kurdish territory in Syria.

The rally was joined by the representatives of a number of political parties and non-governmental organizations including BDP (Peace and Democracy Party), DTK (Democratic Society Congress), EMEP (Labour Party), ESP (Socialist Party of the Oppressed) KESK, KeSKeSor LGBT, Diyarbakır Chamber of Doctors, Peace Mothers Initiative, DÖKH (Democratic Free Women's Movement), MEYA-DER, as well as BDP deputies Ayla Ata Akat, Hasip Kaplan and Altan Tan.

Asya Abdullah, co-chair of the main Syrian Kurdish party PYD (Democratic Union Party) in western Kurdistan, BDP co-chair Gültan Kışanak and DTK co-chair Aysel Tuğluk made speeches calling attention to the importance of achievement of peace in Turkey, Kurdistan and the Middle East and a democratic solution to the Kurdish question.

BDP co-chair Gültan Kışanak warned the AKP government about its Middle East policy and its participation in a possible international military action in Syria. Kışanak remarked that the AKP government would be responsible for the massacres and conflicts people in Syria will be subjected to in the event of an intervention in the country. “If Turkey is meant to play a part, that should be aimed at a political solution, peace and brotherhood of peoples”, she underlined and remarked that Kurds will continue to stand against massacres and to fight until the achievement of an autonomous Kurdistan.

Speaking after, PYD co-chair Asya Abdullah called attention to the ongoing war in the Middle East for the last two years and noted that the people of Middle East needed to fight against the dirty policy targeting their territory.

Abdullah underlined that a solution to the problems in the Middle East region couldn't be achieved without the inclusion of Kurds in the process, adding; “Those who promise peace in the region are not telling the truth. We are asking them how peace could be achieved without the recognition of Kurds, their identity, language and independence. This is not what democracy means”.

PYD co-chair also urged the Turkish state to provide Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan with conditions necessary for the practice of steps required by the peace process.

Referring to the ongoing attacks of gang groups against the Kurdish people in Rojava, Abdullah underlined that any ideological , political and military attack on western Kurdistan was actually against the will of all the Kurdish people. She called on Kurds in four parts of Kurdistan to enhance their struggle against the attacks targeting Rojava.

Speaking after, DTK co-chair Aysel Tuğluk pointed out that the Kurdish people have always struggled for peace even while being subjected to most cruel attacks, as is happening in western Kurdistan territory at present.

We are here to voice our demands for peace and brotherhood, Tuğluk underlined and said that Kurds objected to any military action in Syria. She pointed out that military actions would bring no peaceful solution and deepen the deadlock in the region. Tuğluk defended that it was AKP government's plans against Rojava that made it so eager to take part in a military intervention in Syria.

Tuğluk urged the Turkish state to stop arming gang groups and having them attack the Kurdish people in Rojava, adding that nobody had the right to prevent the Kurdish revolution in western Kurdistan where -she added- people did only use their right to self- determination.

Tuğluk also criticized the AKP government for wasting the historic chance for peace and a solution to the Kurdish question, and warned that it may be quite difficult to achieve peace should this chance be missed by the Turkish state.

Tuğluk re-voiced Kurdish people's demand for the improvement of their leader's conditions in order that the resolution process make headway and end up in peace.

The other major BDP rallies to mark the World Peace Day, in Istanbul, Van and Mersin, were also joined by tens of thousands who called the AKP government to ensure the rights of the Kurdish people in the new constitution and to take steps for the achievement of peace in the country. Demonstrators urged the ruling AKP government to stop organizing and backing al-Qaeda affiliated gang groups attacking people in Rojava, and also warned the government against a possible military intervention in Syria.

Kurds in Antep, Malatya, Adıyaman, Batman, Siirt, Manisa and Bursa also took to the streets calling on the government to take urgent steps for the democratic resolution process.