The meeting is the first of two fringe events organized to update the Labour Party delegates on the situation of Kurdish People’s Leader, Abdullah Ocalan, as well as the situation in the Middle East.
Ocalan’s Ideas for a Long-lasting Peace is the title of a Fringe meeting organised by the Kurdish National Congress at the Labour Party Annual Conference.
The meeting is the first of two fringe events organized to update the Labour Party delegates on the situation of Kurdish People’s Leader, Abdullah Ocalan, as well as the situation in the Middle East.
This first meeting will take place from 10 to 12 am on Tuesday, 25 September in Liverpool where the Labour Conference is taking place.
The panel consists of Tracy Brabin, MP for Batley and Spen, Rizgar Wan, KNK UK representative, Ertugrul Kurkçu, former HDP Izmir MP, Julie Ward MEP. Chair: Lord Glasman.
The brutal war on the Kurdish population in Turkey has resulted in thousands murdered and cities destroyed in a largely unreported war. In Syria, Turkey has illegally invaded Afrin and committed acts of genocide and ethnic cleansing and atrocious human rights abuses against the Kurdish population.
The situation is desperate, yet Abdullah Ocalan, the jailed leader of the Kurds, believes that another world is possible. “I offer Turkey a simple solution. We demand a democratic nation… not defined by flags and borders”… but by Democratic Confederalism, a system that offers the right for all to participate through their own identity within the democratic federal structure. Democratic Confederalism, which is being implemented in the North of Syria, places women’s liberation, ecological sustainability and an absence of sectarianism at its centre.
