The Co-Presidency of KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) Executive Council issued a statement on the occasion of, among others, the massacre of Paris in 2022, the massacre of Roboski in 2011, and the massacre of Meresh (tr. Kahramanmarash) in 1978. The statement also includes a call regarding the current situation in Rojava, as well as in North and East Syria.

The KCK statement calling for resistance against the massacres carried out by Turkey in the past as well as today reads as follows:

"The month of December has gone down in history as a month that witnessed many massacres conducted by the genocidal colonialist Turkish state. There is the massacre of Marash (tr. Kahramanmarash) in 1978, the massacre of political prisoners in 2000, the Roboski massacre in 2011, and the Second Paris massacre in 2022, to name just some of them. We once again condemn all these massacres carried out by the Turkish state, and by commemorating Cihan Bilgin and Nazim Dashdan, the two journalists and members of the free press that were murdered a couple of days ago, we respectfully and gratefully commemorate all the martyrs of the revolutionary struggle for freedom and democracy.

The massacre of Marash took place as part of the genocidal plan against the Kurds to expel them from the west of the Euphrates. The colonialist Turkish state had taken the west of the Euphrates as a strategic line to realize the Kurdish genocide and concentrated its attacks there. Because the west of the Euphrates is Kurdistan’s border with Turkey. Therefore, the Turkish state has tried to develop the Kurdish genocide starting from here and spreading it throughout all of Kurdistan. Therefore, our Kurdish-Alevi people living there have been subjected to countless massacres and have suffered great pain, as seen in Marash in 1978. After the massacre, our Kurdish-Alevi people living there were forced to migrate, and the demographic structure of the region was forcefully changed. Today, the AKP-MHP government continues this genocidal policy and tries to extend it to the whole of Kurdistan. The invasions against Rojava and the new invasion plans reveal that this mentality and politics are being deepened and continued.

Another massacre that revealed the true face of the Turkish state targeted the villagers of Roboski, by bombing them with warplanes. The majority of the people murdered were under-aged children. Although 13 years have passed since the Roboski Massacre, the perpetrators of the massacre have not faced any consequences, and Tayyip Erdoğan, who is the main responsible for the massacre, has openly defended it. So much so that he congratulated the pilots and military officials who carried out the bombardment. As in all massacres before and afterward, the Roboski Massacre once again proved that slaughtering Kurds is not a crime; it is a state policy.

Following the same genocidal and colonial mentality, the Turkish state also murdered Evin Goyi, a member of our KCK Executive Council, the artist Mir Perwer, and the Kurdish patriot Abdurrahman Kizil in Paris on December 23, 2022. This massacre went down in history as the Second Paris Massacre. It is very clear that the Second Paris Massacre, like the first, was carried out with the support of European states and intelligence organizations. If it were not for their support, the Turkish state would not have been able to carry out these massacres. The cover-up of both massacres reveals this fact. In the Paris massacres, it is particularly the French state that is under the most blame. So far, the French state has not taken any steps to shed light on these massacres. This is gradually increasing the suspicion of our people towards the French state. The French state must definitely shed light on these massacres in order to get rid of the blame. This is the expectation of the Kurdish people.

On the occasion of the anniversary of these massacres, we call on our people, our friends, and all the revolutionary, democratic forces. The perpetrators and those responsible for these massacres can only be held to account by raising the struggle and, on this basis, frustrating the plans of the massacring enemy. For this, we must raise our resistance against invading, genocidal attacks and disrupt the plans of the massacring enemy. On this basis, we call on everyone to develop resistance everywhere against the attacks against Rojava."