The Executive Committee of the PKK (Kurdistan Workers’ Party) issued a written statement on the occasion of the 46th anniversary of the founding of the party. Underlining that the Freedom Movement is closer than ever to the physical freedom of Leader Apo (Abdullah Öcalan) and the solution of the Kurdish question on the basis of freedom, the PKK said: “To this end, it is necessary to develop the mass struggle for the physical freedom of Leader Apo at the level of mobilisation. Our people and friends, everyone must mobilise all their means for this struggle, fill their entire agenda with the struggle for the physical freedom of Leader Apo, lock themselves into this struggle and develop the struggle with all kinds of creative ways and methods. It is certain that such a total struggle will yield results and victory.”

The PKK statement said: “Today marks the 46th anniversary of the founding of our party PKK on 27 November 1978. The Kurdistan freedom struggle led by the PKK is entering its 47th year. In this context, there are enthusiastic celebrations in every field. Our people and friends are enthusiastically celebrating the anniversary of the founding of the PKK and our Party Day with various events. First of all, we salute all these events and celebrations and wish all those who struggle for freedom and democracy great success in the 47th year of the PKK. We heartily congratulate all comrades, especially Leader Apo, our heroic guerrilla forces, women and youth, our patriotic people and democratic friends on the Party Day. We commemorate with deep respect, love and gratitude all our heroic martyrs, starting with our first great martyr, comrade Haki Karer and continuing up to our sacrificial martyrs, comrades Asya Ali and Rojger Hêlîn. We reiterate our promise to achieve their goals and keep their memories alive.

We are experiencing this Party Day with the great enthusiasm created by the greeting from Leader Apo. Women and youth, our people and friends welcome the greeting of Leader Apo and greet him with deep longing and respect with the actions they have developed in every field from Cologne to Batman and Dersim. Our heroic guerrilla forces are trying to make sense of Leader Apo's greeting with the freedom actions they have developed in every field, especially in Zap and Metina. On this basis, we greet Leader Apo, who has become the leader of the liberation and freedom of all the oppressed, especially women, with deep longing, love and respect, and once again celebrate the 47th Party Day.

As is known, our party, the PKK, has led the Kurdistan freedom struggle for the past 46 years and brought this struggle to the brink of victory with the great gains it has created. By liberating the Kurdistan freedom struggle from reformist-submissionist understandings and nationalist, religious, sexist influences, combining it with a social freedom based on women's freedom and ecology, and bringing it to the line of fraternal life of peoples in democratic unity, it has made it the pioneering and fundamental power of the free and democratic life of humanity. It raised the Kurdish people to the level of the most influential people waging a struggle for freedom in today's world.

Leader Apo has become a global leading force showing the way of salvation to all the oppressed with what the great struggle of the past period has revealed and with the Democratic Modernity Paradigm he has developed. Today, on the basis of the Global Freedom Movement, this paradigm is spreading all over the world, meeting all oppressed groups, becoming concrete by turning into organisations and actions. All oppressed humanity unites its freedom and liberation with Leader Apo and strongly embraces the physical freedom struggle for Leader Apo.

The 46-year Kurdistan freedom struggle waged by the PKK under the leadership of Leader Apo has concretised itself as a Women's Freedom Revolution in its theoretical and practical development. It has made Kurdish women, who were in the position of slaves of slaves, conscious and organised in all respects and made them the pioneers of the freedom struggle at all levels. The events of ‘25 November, International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women’ clearly demonstrate this fact. Kurdish women, who have become conscious and organised through Jineoloji, are leading the women's liberation struggle in every field. Moreover, they are raising this struggle from being a fight against only visible violence to the level of a Women's Liberation Revolution against all forms of violence, visible and invisible. By questioning all kinds of male-dominated mentality and system since the hierarchy, they are gradually revealing a free life based on women's freedom.

On the other hand, during the past 46 years there have been countless attacks to destroy Leader Apo and the PKK. Therefore, the PKK struggle has been a multifaceted resistance against all kinds of attacks aimed at annihilation and liquidation. As a result, those who attacked the PKK to destroy it were either destroyed themselves or suffered great damage. While dozens of governments established with the aim of destroying the PKK disappeared into history, it was the PKK that survived and flourished. This is because the PKK is the Kurdish people's will for existence and freedom, and it is not possible to destroy the Kurdish people from the Neolithic Age. This is because the Kurdish people demonstrate this reality by saying ‘PKK is the people, the people are here’ in the squares.

Today, as the PKK enters its 47th year of struggle, these fascist, colonialist and genocidal attacks aimed at the destruction and liquidation of the PKK continue in many ways. Our movement, our people and our friends are resisting these attacks in every field on the basis of the Global Freedom Movement, which aims for the physical freedom of Leader Apo and the solution of the Kurdish question. The Freedom Campaign has entered its second year and at the end of the first year, it forced the AKP-MHP fascist administration to allow a meeting with Leader Apo and to develop various discussions on the Kurdish question, albeit fake.

On this basis, since the beginning of October, there have been various discussions in the dominant Turkish politics about Leader Apo and the Kurdish question. As the Movement, we have not closed the way for these discussions, but we have also encouraged them to deepen in a positive direction. However, it soon became clear that what the Bahçeli-Erdoğan duo is trying to develop is a new trick and game. With such unbalanced discourses, they want to divert the agenda and weaken the mass struggle developed by our people and our friends. The appointment of trustees to the municipalities in parallel with such discussions and the massacre attacks clearly show the reality. This is what we will state to our people and friends here: There is nothing concrete that has reached us within the scope of the discussions in question. What is being done is a discussion in the press and among themselves. It is mainly a game aimed at deceiving us and distracting us. Therefore, we should not believe what is said on this basis and we should never become complacent and weaken the struggle for the physical freedom of Leader Apo. In fact, on such sensitive and important issues, we should not pay attention to the discourses in the press or otherwise, except for the official statements to be made by our Freedom Movement. The most correct thing is not to see or hear such things, but to concentrate with everything we have on actions aimed at the physical freedom of Leader Apo.

It is very clear that the Global Freedom Movement, which aims at the physical freedom of Leader Apo, has seriously challenged the AKP-MHP fascist administration and brought it to the point of collapse. The actions of our people and friends have exposed the İmralı torture, isolation and genocide system in all its aspects. The resistance of our heroic guerrilla forces in Zap and Metina has locked and bogged down the AKP-MHP fascism. So much so that global support and the KDP and Iraqi support are no longer enough. It was proved once again on 23 October that there is no target that the Immortal Fedayeen of Kurdistan cannot hit. For Turkey, there is no other solution left but to resort to the solution power of Leader Apo and to take democratisation based on Kurdish freedom as a basis. Because the attacks by the supranational global monopoly capital have become a serious threat to the status quo of the Turkish Republic. It is no longer possible to maintain the fascist, colonialist and genocidal mentality and politics. The only solution is democratisation on the basis of Kurdish freedom.

Therefore, as we enter the PKK's 47th year of struggle, we are closer than ever to the physical freedom of Leader Apo and the solution of the Kurdish question on the basis of freedom. However, it is also clear that this will not be realised without struggle or with insufficient struggle. For this, it is necessary to develop the mass struggle aiming at the physical freedom of Leader Apo at the level of mobilisation. Our people and friends, everyone must mobilise all their means for this struggle, fill their entire agenda with the struggle for the physical freedom of Leader Apo, lock themselves into this struggle and develop the struggle with all kinds of creative ways and methods. It is certain that such a total struggle will yield results and victory.

On this basis, we once again congratulate our people and our friends on the Party Day. We call on everyone to make effective celebrations and to combine the Party Foundation Anniversary activities with the struggle for the physical freedom of Leader Apo and to further expand the Global Freedom Campaign with more creative and effective ways and methods!”