The 32nd International Kurdish Culture Festival took place in Frankfurt on Saturday under the motto ‘Let's break the isolation and occupation, let's liberate Leader Apo’.

BDP Co-Chair Keskin Baydındır, Hessen State Parliament member Martine Feldmayer and German Left Party (DIE LINKE) Foreign Policy Spokesman Jan Van Aken made speeches at the festival.

DBP -Chair Bayındır said, “Millions of Kurds are struggling to live with their language and culture. In this field today, the Kurdish people are shouting out the importance they attach to their language and culture and their desire to live. From Bakur to Rojava, in all parts of Kurdistan, the hope of our people is their culture and language.”

Keskin Bayındır pointed out that the struggle of the Kurdish people living in Europe for years is progressing step by step and that the efforts of the enemies of the Kurdish people to crush Kurdish unity will be fruitless.

Stating that a dirty politics is being carried out in the Middle East and against the Kurdish people, Bayındır emphasised that the Kurdish people are struggling against this politics and that this struggle will result in freedom.

Noting that the struggle of the Kurdish people is a hope not only for the Kurds but also for all peoples, Bayındır said, “We have not bowed down to oppression and tyranny for 50 years. The Kurdish people believe in Abdullah Öcalan's struggle, and this struggle will reach its goal and target.”

Bayındır emphasised that the freedom of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan and the solution of the Kurdish question are of key importance for peace in the Middle East.

DBP Co-Chair stated that the freedom struggle and the global campaign ‘Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan, a Political Solution to the Kurdish Question’ are also supported by artists, academics and intellectuals all around the world, adding that these steps will yield results.

Referring to the struggle of Kurdish women, Bayındır commemorated Jina Mahsa Amini on the anniversary of her murder and stressed that the struggle of Kurdish women is the hope of all women from Asia to Europe and Africa.

“This revolution, this struggle for freedom is the struggle of women,” Bayındır said, adding, “Women oppose oppression with fire in one hand and bring peace and equality to the world and Kurdistan with water in the other hand.”

Bayındır talked about the struggles carried out for 25 years to end Abdullah Öcalan's captivity and the isolation imposed on him and said that the international conspiracy that targeted Öcalan in 1999 continues today.

Referring to the role played by Europe in the conspiracy process, Bayındır stated that the struggle against this conspiracy continues in every field and that the freedom of Abdullah Öcalan is the centre of a solution to the Kurdish question.

“We are ready, we will make this struggle successful under the leadership of our youth and women,’ Bayındır said.

Bayındır greeted the activists of the Long March and said that the Kurdish youth's determined struggle, which has been going on for 24 years, will eventually succeed no matter what difficulties they face.