Long March in Germany on its second day

The "Long March" of the Kurdish youth movement continues in Germany. The focus of the protest is the freedom of Abdullah Öcalan, the Turkish attacks on Southern Kurdistan and the collaboration of South Kurdistan’s ruling party KDP.

The "Long March 2022" completed its first stage in Essen yesterday. On Sunday morning, the activists had set off from Dortmund on the approximately 35 kilometer-long stage. The main focus of the demonstration of the Kurdish youth movement TCŞ and TekoJIN is the freedom of the Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan. Öcalan's physical freedom is seen as the key to peace and freedom for Kurdistan and the Middle East. The protests also focuses on current developments in Southern Kurdistan (Northern Iraq). Activists wore T-shirts with the inscription "Come to the freedom offensive against betrayal and occupation.”

        

On behalf of the participants, Nûman Amed condemned the silence of NATO countries against Turkey's attacks on all four parts of Kurdistan and expressed the solidarity of the activists with the resistance of the guerrillas in the Medya Defense Zones. Despite the bad weather, the demonstrators continued their "Meşa Dirêj" (Long March) under songs and slogans such as "Long live the guerrilla resistance". At the same time, passersby were informed through leaflets. After arriving in Essen, the activists gathered at the Democratic Kurdish Community Center where they took part in a commemoration ceremony for the Kurdish revolutionaries who died in May. They also remembered the revolutionary Aysel Doğan, who died of cancer.


The activists have started the second stage of their march from Essen central station this morning following a minute of silence in memory of the martyrs of the Kurdistan revolution.


The demonstrators are set to arrive in Duisburg on the third day and to conclude their protest in Dusseldorf on the fourth day.

"Long marches" by Kurdish youth movements are also currently taking place in France, Greece, England, Sweden and Switzerland.