GENEVA, — Kurdish people in Europe are organising a “long march” starting from Geneva to Strasbourg on 31st January pressing their national rights and freedom of Kurdish national leader Abdullah Ocalan.
The Confederation of Kurdish Associations in Europe (KON-KURD) is reported to be organizing the march. “By beginning our march on 31st January from the United Nation office in Geneva, we express our demand for freedom for which we have paid enormous sacrifices but have never abandoned and demand the UN to fulfil their responsibility towards the Kurdish people and recognise them as a people,” an organiser said.
The march is expected to reach Strasbourg on the 18 of February. “In Strasbourg we will highlight the living conditions of the Kurdish Leader Mr Abdullah Ocalan, who is critical to the solution of the Kurdish question, and emphasise the fact that the freedom of the Kurdish people is also dependent on the freedom of Mr Ocalan and call upon the EC and CPT to fulfil their duties,” the organisers added.
According to the organisers the Kurds on the march call on the “international powers such as the UN, European Union, NATO, US and Russia to use their relationships and influence on the states that occupy Kurdistan and initiate the dialogues in order to secure a status for the Kurdish people and maintain their national existence and rights in every part at national and international levels for the purpose of ensuring the culmination of the question in a permanent solution. We call upon the institutions and individuals, who uphold the universal values of democracy, freedom, justice, peace, and human rights to participate in our march and to send messages of support. We call upon the press and public to demonstrate their sensitivity, support and solidarity”.