In a statement published on its website, the PAJK (Party of Free Women in Kurdistan) Coordination celebrated the 45th anniversary of the establishment of the PKK on 27 November 1978 and called the youth of Kurdistan to join the ranks of the PKK.

The PAJK statement released on Sunday is as follows:

"We commemorate with respect and gratitude all our martyrs of the revolution in the person of Sakine Cansız, Mazlum Doğan, Kemal Pir, M. Hayri Durmuş, comrades Rojhat Zilan, Erdal Şahin, who carried out sacrificial actions as the successors of this line, and comrades Axin Muş, Leyla Amed, Dicle Eylem, who were martyred whilst heroically resisting the enemy in Amed, Botan, Serhad, Mardin, Zap, Avaşin, Metina.  We congratulate the 45th anniversary of the foundation of our party to Leader Apo (Abdullah Öcalan), to the comrades of the PKK-PAJK who are resisting in the dungeons and fighting in the mountains, to the struggling women and our resilient peoples, and to the world humanity.

From the very first day, Leader Apo shaped the process of becoming a party as a process of liberation for women and our people, making women capable of self-defence, organised and active with the party. With the PKK, Leader Apo gave the colonised Kurdish people a will, and created the line of 'Jin, Jiyan, Azadî' (Woman, Life, Freedom). Kurdish women met with the revolution through the PKK struggle, gained the means to fight against slavery and became PAJK. PAJK came into existence as the equality-freedom line of the PKK. PAJK is the mentality and personality of free women and men.  PAJK is the spirit of the PKK. Every woman who becomes PAJK is the vanguard of the PKK. The personalities that will form the basis for the new social foundation were created through Party militancy.

The PKK is the party of human dignity as a seeker of truth. As the 21st century's most revolutionary, dynamic and transformative movement, it is more than ever the hope of salvation for the peoples of the Middle East. The PKK is a source of inspiration for world humanity with the Democratic Ecological Women's Liberationist paradigm it represents. The PKK represents democratic life and peaceful solution with its democratic nation mentality against nationalist nation-state structures. With its gynecological perspective, the PKK is the most assertive freedom movement against patriarchal mentality and culture. We welcome the 46th year of struggle of our party PKK, the only force organising democratic modernity against the capitalist modernity system, with great determination, commitment and enthusiasm.

The annihilation attacks carried out by the AKP-MHP fascist government relying on the KDP’s betrayal were frustrated by the struggle of the guerrilla and our people. The plans to liquidate the PKK, which is a social movement, are doomed to collapse. Against the genocidal war waged by fascist Erdogan, all Kurdistan youth, women and our peoples will stand up under the leadership of the PKK-PAJK and turn 2024 into the year of freedom for the Leader.

We call on the youth of Kurdistan, men and women, to join the PKK’s freedom ranks, to expand the revolution together with everyone who resists against the capitalist system and to win freedom, to defend life against death."