The KCDK-E (European Kurdish Democratic Societies Congress) Co-Presidency Council celebrated Christmas with a written statement.

The statement said: "We wish that Christmas will lead to peace and tranquillity among peoples and beliefs."

The statement continued: “In Kurdistan, where various beliefs and peoples have lived together for thousands of years, the rulers have maintained their sovereignty with massacres carried out for their interests. With the democratic nation paradigm articulated by Kurdish people's leader Abdullah Öcalan, the project of a free-egalitarian coexistence in the Kurdistan lands, especially in Rojava, has become a great hope for the Middle East and the world as the only solution."

"ATTACKS CONTINUE ON CHRISTMAS DAY"

The statement added: "One of the reasons for the genocidal Turkish colonialist state's attacks on Kurdish lands is the free-equal common life of all beliefs and peoples. It is known that the attacks of the invading Turkish state have disrupted people’s living in Kurdistan and the Middle East. However, Christians and other peoples of different faiths suffer the most. Turkey shamelessly continues its attacks on the Christmas Day, the holy day of the Christian faith."

COMMON STRUGGLE FOR HUMANITY

The statement said: "We are going through difficult times on this Christmas Day. We call for a joint struggle on behalf of humanity against fascist Erdogan, who is the chief of jihadists and who is attacking the peoples of the Middle East and the world who seek to live in peace equally and freely.

On the occasion of this Christmas, we reiterate our wish for a democratic world where the peoples of the Middle East and the world will live in peace and celebrate their religious and ethnic holidays. 

As KCDK-E, we celebrate the Christmas feast of the entire Christian world, and wish that it will lead to peace and tranquillity among peoples and beliefs."