The Kurdistan Free Life Party (PJAK) announced its establishment on April 4, 2004, the 55th birthday of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan.

On both occasions, PJAK held a ceremony in the mountains of Kurdistan. The area was covered with images of Öcalan and martyrs along with banners expressing devotion to the martyrs.

During the ceremony, a painting exhibition with pictures of Öcalan and martyred guerrillas was also opened.

Speaking here, PJAK Co-Chair Peyman Viyan celebrated the 21st anniversary of the founding of PJAK and Öcalan’s birthday.

Stating that PJAK was founded to respond to the international conspiracy and to give a strong response to the enemies, Peyman Viyan said, “We have been fighting for 20 years. We commemorate with respect and gratitude all the guerrillas who were martyred on this path, especially our first fallen comrade, martyr Newzad, and our last martyr, Ebdulrehman Haji Ahmed.”

Viyan Peyman continued: “Revolution can turn into a culture with its art and take a place in the hearts of the people. Leader Apo [Abdullah Öcalan] has created a new life for us. We see our freedom in the freedom of Leader Apo. Therefore, we must strengthen the struggle for his physical freedom in every field. We see ourselves in the personality of Leader Apo. We gained will and organization through him.”

Underlining that PJAK is the work of the labor and struggle of thousands of martyrs, Viyan Peyman added, “PJAK is not just a party in Eastern Kurdistan and Iran. It is a new way and method of struggle, a new thought and philosophy. It takes its source from the thought and philosophy of Leader Apo. The birth of Leader Apo is the birth of PJAK. PJAK is a party of martyrs because it has come to this day thanks to thousands of martyrs.”

The guerrillas then recited revolutionary poems and sang revolutionary songs. They also planted trees and danced to the songs.