The Congress of Democratic Societies of Kurdistan in Europe (Kongreya Civakên Demokratîk ên Kurdistaniyên li Ewrupa-KCDK-E) released a written statement thanking those who participated in the 32nd Kurdish Culture Festival in Frankfurt on 21 September.

The KCDK-E statement on Sunday said the following:

“The festival was a glorious stance of the cultural resistance against the physical and cultural genocide perpetrated by the colonialist states against the Kurdish people for more than a hundred years in four parts of the country.

At the 32nd International Kurdish Culture Festival, which was attended by tens of thousands of people from all over Europe, the Kurdish people and their friends both declared their will and demonstrated their commitment to their cultural values against cultural assimilation.

Tens of thousands of people participating in the festival reiterated their resolute stance in the struggle against the isolation of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan and for his freedom.

Against the 26 years of isolation and captivity, Kurds, their friends, women, children, old and young alike, tens of thousands who participated in the festival from dozens of countries in Europe shouted that they were ready for the new phase of the campaign (Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan, a Political Solution to the Kurdish Question) with a magnificent embrace.

Thousands of people travelled to Frankfurt by buses and vehicles from Germany, France, Switzerland, Holland, Belgium and many other European countries.

Germany, which constituted the main body of the participation, displayed a determined work and mobilisation in which women and young people filled the area to the brim. Tens of thousands of women mobilised for the festival with a sense of responsibility by embracing the women-oriented paradigm of Leader Apo (Abdullah Öcalan).

Internationalists and friends from various countries, who have been participating with all their strength in the ‘Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan and a Political Solution to the Kurdish Question’ campaign from the beginning, embraced Leader Apo in Frankfurt and expressed that he is an international leader.

As KCDK-E, we would like to thank the tens of thousands of people who gathered in Frankfurt on 21 September, especially women, youth, internationalists, friends, revolutionaries, democrats, intellectuals, all those who are in favour of humanity, and all those who have been mobilising for this festival by going door to door for weeks, and all those who have worked with discipline in the field.”