DIYARBAKIR, North Kurdistan, — Visiting 25 villages of Diyarbakir, Labour, Democracy and Freedom Block’s Diyarbakir Candidate Leyla Zana was welcomed by thousands.
Zana attended public meetings and visited people and listened to their problems and complaints. Making speeches in the villages, Diyarbakir Independent Candidate Leyla Zana said the followings: “The sovereign powers divided the Kurdish territory with Qasr-i Shirin Treaty. The dividers of Kurdish regions would now regret and feel ashamed of what they did if they had the chance to see the Kurdish unity today. Through ‘Democratic autonomy’, we will reunite all divided Kurdish regions.”
Zana continued by saying that “in the 30-year struggle for freedom, you have raised this fight with your blood and lives. The prices paid for the freedom struggle didn’t go down the drain. The Kurds are all deeply loyal to their case and struggle. The system’s parties have played with the people’s thoughts and opinions. They have always deceived this people. The Kurdish people don’t believe in the dirty politics of system parties any more. Each house here members in prison or at mountains. And you have buried the most honourable children of yours.”
The dividers of Kurdish regions would now today regret and feel ashamed of what they did if they had the chance to see the Kurdish unity today. Through ‘Democratic autonomy’, we will reunite all divided Kurdish regions. A woman, coming here through her marriage, expressed their demand for Kurds in Syria to live with their own language, culture and identity. They intended to divide the unity of Kurds but all these attempts were avoided by Kurds. Nobody shall any more try to break the unity of this people because they cannot manage that.”
“I hope that the schools you go to will be places where you can have education in your mother tongue. When I look at mothers’ eyes, I see that they and all of you are waiting for the liberty of your children in prisons and the liberty of Dear Abdullah Ocalan. All of you are waiting your children at mountains to come to the region and make politics here. I believe that we are very close to those days.