The Preparatory Committee of the Long March to be held in Germany on 15-20 September called for participation in the demonstration in a spirit of mobilisation.
Preparations for the ‘Long March’, which is organised every year to demand the physical freedom of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan, have started. The route of the Long March this year is between the cities of Bielefeld and Duisburg in the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW).
The Long March will start on 15 September with the slogan ‘Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan, a Political Solution to the Kurdish Question’ with a panel on ‘Leader Öcalan and Youth’.
The activists will march in different cities every day between 16 September and 20 September in the state of NRW. Kurdish and internationalist youth will take to the streets in Bielefeld, Hamm, Dortmund, Essen and Duisburg for the physical freedom of Abdullah Öcalan.
The Preparatory Committee, which is doing the final work for the action that will bring together Kurdish and internationalist youth from all over Europe, has published a video on its digital media accounts.
The call video was published in Kurdish, Turkish, German, French, Italian, German, French, Italian and English.
The call of the Long March Preparatory Committee is as follows:
“Our main demand in the Long March, which has become a traditional action by Kurdish youth living in Europe who have somehow physically separated from their country, is to ensure the physical freedom of Leader Öcalan and to raise awareness for this. The colonialist Turkish Republic and the AKP-MHP regime are imposing isolation and genocide on our people in the person of our leader. The occupation and genocide attacks developed in Kurdistan and the concept of annihilation against our people and their valiant fighters in North and South Kurdistan are in effect. As Kurdish youth, we do not recognise this concept of annihilation, and just as our comrades are fighting against Turkish fascism in Avaşîn, Metîna and Zap, we will continue to struggle to realise our dream of liberation with Leader Öcalan and meeting in Kurdistan. On this basis, we call on all Kurdish youth living in Europe to participate in our Long March, which we will organise with the slogan ‘Freedom for Leader Öcalan, a Solution to the Kurdish Question’, in a spirit of mobilisation.”
