The Revolutionary Youth Movement (TCŞ) and Struggling Young Women (TekoJIN) are staging a 2-day Long March in Paris with the slogan "Li dijî îxanet û dagirkeriyê werin cenga azadiyê " ("Join The Fight For Freedom Against Occupation and Betrayal").

The protest march is against the "ongoing invasion and genocidal attacks in Kurdistan and the severe isolation conditions imposed on Öcalan” and "the Turkish state’s ongoing genocidal war against the Kurds both inside and outside the country's borders."

Hundreds of activists gathered in the Drancy suburb of Paris early in the morning and started their march after a minute of silence and a press statement explaining the purpose of the march.

Today’s stage of the march covers Drancy-Stalingrad, while the activists will march from Ahmet Kaya Cultural Center to Place de la Nation in central Paris tomorrow.

Reading the press statement, TCŞ activist Serhad Roni mentioned the situation of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan who has been held in aggravated isolation in Imrali High Security Prison on the Imrali Island in the Sea of Marmara since his abduction from Kenya to Turkey in an international conspiracy in 1999. Roni pointed out that the isolation imposed on the Kurdish people and their freedom movement in the person of Abdullah Öcalan has been aggravated in line with the attacks of the Turkish state.

Roni also pointed out that assimilation, integration and dishonour are imposed on the Kurdish people living in Europe, the center of the hegemonic, capitalist and nation-state system, while these truths are blatantly experienced in four parts of Kurdistan.

Referring to the Kurdish people’s “honorable struggle against genocidal policies”, Roni stated that the people should ensure strong participation in every action and shoulder an indispensable duty with self-sacrifice.

“The guerrillas, who are waging a relentless fight for our people, get their morale and strength from the people,” Roni said and called on the people to unite, develop a joint struggle against occupation, betrayal, exploitation and capitalism and respond to those who seek to drag the Kurdish people into genocide.

“On this basis, we, in the TCŞ and TekoJIN, call upon all the Kurdish youth, people and internationalists in France and entire Europe to participate in the process actively in a spirit of mobilization. Let our people remember that war is hard to recover. What is lost in war is a loss that can never be compensated for. Leading this fight to victory is possible through unity and strong support. We call upon our people to unite and struggle on the basis of this truth,” stated the TCŞ activist.