The Mesopotamia Freedom Party (MOP) issued a written statement and condemned the US putting a bounty on PKK and KCK administrators Cemil Bayik, Murat Karayilan and Duran Kalkan.

“We strongly condemn the decision,” said MOP and added: “We salute the revolutionary leaders who have become a hope for the peoples.”

The statement said the following: “This decision against the esteemed leading revolutionaries of the PKK movement that fights in every area of life for all peoples, religions, cultures, faiths, sects, languages and women to live in equality for the first time since the 16th century in the lands of the Middle East, Central Asia and Mesopotamia is an attack against the dignified will of all oppressed peoples in these lands.”

MOP said the attack is an attack against the Assyrian/Syriac/Chaldean, Armenian, Greek and other Christian nations who live in the Middle East, Central Asia and Mesopotamia and added: “If the US wants to issue a decision, they should issue one against the fascist officials of the Turkish state who spread terrorism, fundamentalism, racism and fascism!”

The statement ended with: “As the MOP, we consider the leading PKK cadres Cemil Bayik, Murat Karayilan and Duran Kalkan as our own will, and state that we will defend this will at all costs. We are calling on democratic peoples of the world to stand against this decision against leading revolutionaries who fight against the Turkish state fascism, fundamentalism, political Islam and the barbaric ideologies of ISIS.”