The Autonomous Administration of Afrin Region condemned the 15 February international conspiracy that led to the capture of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan from Kenya to Turkey in 1999.

In a press statement at the Berxwedan (Resistance) Camp in Shehba where displaced people of Afrin are staying, a huge banner was unfurled, which read “Leader Öcalan’s freedom is women’s freedom and the assurance of people’s fraternity, peace and democracy”.

The press statement was read by the Autonomous Administration Executive Council Co-presidents Şîraz Hemû and Bekir Elo in Kurdish and Arabic.

The statement pointed out that the Kurdish Freedom Struggle led by Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan secured the existence of the Kurdish people. It noted that the conspiracies carried out by capitalist states against the Kurdish people for years has moved to another stage with the physical captivity of Öcalan.

Stressing that the international conspiracy sought to prevent the achievement of a solution to the Kurdish question through peaceful ways, the statement said that capitalist modernity targeted the most organized struggle in the Middle East to cause a deep crisis in the region.

The statement pointed out that a third world war centered in the Middle East is taking place in which Syria has suffered the heaviest blow.

Organized with Öcalan’s ideas, the peoples of North and East Syria have created a new project for the whole world, said the statement and called upon international human rights organisations to fulfill their responsibilities against the conspiracy and isolation implemented against Öcalan.