Kurdish and Turkish intellectuals in the UK support Jeremy Corbyn

Kurdish and Turkish institutions in London issued a joint declaration together with intellectuals, writers, lawyers and journalists calling on people to vote Labour against poverty and racism in the general elections to be held in Britain on December 12.

With little left before the 12 December general elections in Britain, Kurdish and Turkish organisations and parties declared their support for the Labour Party.

Kurdish and Turkish intellectuals, writers, journalists, artists, academics and lawyers issued a joint declaration to call on their communities to vote for Jeremy Corbyn and to express full support for the Labour Party manifesto.

"The Kurdish and Turkish community in England, we are proud to support the Labour Party's manifesto. As the austerity policies deepened, poverty began to be felt more and inequality grew much faster. Like all ethnic minorities, the Kurdish and Turkish communities were turned into scapegoats."

The declaration recalled that racist aggressions suffered by Kurds in the past couple of years and underlined the support and solidarity shown by the Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn with Turkish and Kurdish communities in North London for 35 years.

The declaration also recalled Jeremy Corbyn's support for the Kurds against Saddam Hussein in Iraq and against Iran Kurdish policy of repression of Kurds. "Jeremy Corbyn has visited the region many times. Likewise today, Labour Party deputies and activists have visited and expressed their solidarity to the thousands of HDP activists, employees and deputies in prison in Turkey." 

The declaration, which emphasized that a conservative government would bring more wars, more poverty and more racist attacks agains refugees displaced by wars, invited everyone to vote for the Labour Party and its progressives and anti-racists policies on 12 December.

The declaration is signed by the following:

Canan Sagar – Musician,

Akın Olgun – Journalist – Writer

Deniz Ciftci – Academic

Alaettin Siyanic – Journalist

Ahmet Guven – Writer

Mizgin Müjde Arslan - Film Maker

Tugba Ozcivan - Music Teacher, Singer

Baran Duran - musician

Suna Alan – Singer

Özkan Orman- Artist

Gulseren Tas – Actress

Cemi Salih – DJ

Berguzar Erdogan / Singer

Hikmet Erden- Journalist

Kamil Küpeli – Poet

Zafer Armutlu – Solicitor

Ali Has – Solicitor

Sibel Gungor – solicitor

Suna Tiskaya – Solicitor

Ilkay Timur Aydemir - Solicitor-Advocate

Sevcan Kaygun - Solicitor

Saim Basbaydar – Solicitor

Guven Ates - Solicitor

Suna Tiskaya - Solicitor

Sefaret Yaman – Solicitor

Vesile Tekas – Solicitor

Onder Karpuz – Solicitor

Suna Derinkursun – Solicitor

Rauf Khalilov – Solicitor

Bektas Cetin – Solicitor

Sevim Tombul - Solicitor-Advocate

Silan Has – Solicitor

Dogan Dogus – Solicitor

Aynur Celik – Solicitor

Cilem Dogus – Solicitor

 

Yagmur Hanim Bulut – Solicitor

Aycan Misir – Solicitor

Berivan Coskun – Solicitor

Hasan Yildirim – Solicitor

Mahmut Dogan – Musician

Sevgi Ulcay – Activist

Kenan Hudaverdi -Director

Sultan Karatas Poet

Ruhi Karadag – Film Director

Feyzullah Cinpolat - Day-Mer Community Activist

İbrahim Avcil – Gik-Der - Community Activist

Kalender Ülger – Kirkisrak Community Centre Organiser

Sultan Cakir – Teacher

Deniz Engin – Teacher

Guner Aydın- CLLR

Yusuf Kul – Accountant

Dr Mehmet Kurt, London School of Economics and Political Science

Argun Cakir - University of Bristol, Department of Music, postdoctoral research assistant

Meryem Kaya - Medical Doctor

Srwa Mustafa (Nérgiz) - Civil ServiceAta Mufty - Journalist and Activist

Elif Gun - Graduate and Activist

Elif Sarican - Anthropologist and Organiser

Kumru Baser / Journalist

Sibel Gungor / Councelor

Ferhan Yetisal / Councelor

Aysel Kirmizikan / Councelor Rabia Cinar / Propreitor

Rana Aksac / Psychotherapist

Banu Aydin / Therapist

Macide Yuksel- Senior CBT Psychotherapist

Hanim Akdemir – Optic Manager

Olcay Aniker – Solicitor

Zuhal Borucu Kocadag – ManagerMeral Halkaci - Community Activist

Memet Kardu – Kurdish People’s Assembly Community Activist

Nejla Coskun - Kurdish People’s Assembly Community Activist

Fatma Can – IT Consultant

Ferhan Yetisal

Sevgi Ulcay – Finance

Fatma Aydin - Chartered Accountant

Dilek Gungor - Nurse/ Senior psychotherapist

Nuran Donmez - Mental Health Social Worker

Firat Karaboyun – Accountant

Rojda Sipan – Accountant

Ilker Yadirgi – Accountant

Ala Hassan, Kurdish Student Movement

Ari Murad - Television producer

Bavil Ahmad, kurdish refugee from South Kurdistan

Ayca Cubukcu - Associate Professor in Human Rights, LSE

Fezile Ozbaran - Flight Attendant

Mustafa Ozbaran - Medical student

Tijen Beligh interpreter/ translator

Dilek Gungor - Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre

Feride Kumbasar - Consultant and Research Student

Ali Dogan - Medical doctor

Ozlem Pekbas - IDVA IDVA- Independent Domestic Violence Advocate

Eylem Dogan – Phlebotomist

Sema Atessal Ugur – Freelance

Belgin Koc – Freelance

Tulay Gulsen – Advisor

Esengul Ozdemir - Nursery Teacher

Dr. Zeynep Kurban - Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult

Oktay Sahbaz- Teacher

Ufuk Uyanik – Artist

Baris Celiloglu - Stage Director

Mehmet Ugur Professor of Economics and institutions. University of Greenwich

Tahir Palali- Musician/ Entrepreneur

Av. Serpil Ersan - Solicitor

Savaş Yadirgi –Yazar

Cemo - Artist

Hunting. Serpil Ersan - Solicitor

War Yadirgi - Author

Cemo - Artist