Signatures are being collected worldwide for the international campaign to remove the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) from the list of terrorist organizations. The campaign for the delisting of the Kurdish liberation movement was launched last November by the international initiative Justice for Kurds and is directed at the Council of the European Union. The goal is four million signatures for the removal of the PKK from the "terror list."

Among the first signatories of the petition are over a thousand personalities from thirty different countries, including Austrian writer Elfriede Jelinek, the Afghan women's rights activist Selay Ghaffar, Hamburg-based international law expert Norman Paech, and Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek. The initiators argue that the classification of the PKK as terrorist prevents a political solution to the Kurdish question. The campaign petition can also be signed online.

Kurdish activists and their friends continue their individual and collective efforts as part of the worldwide campaign.

Activist ‘Mother Sultan’, who is taking part in the campaign in Rome, is going from village to village to collect signatures.

“I am doing this for our leader, who will also gain his freedom should the PKK be removed from the list,” she said.

The activist stated that she has collected 1,540 signatures so far and plans to do more, adding, “I will try to do anything I can for our leader.”

Appealing to the Kurds, mainly the young people, she said, “I would like to see every person and youngster of our folk to do all they could. I am doing whatever I can, and I want our youth to rise up for the same cause right now.”