GENEVA, — The Kurdish Long March taking from Geneva to Strasbourg stressing for their rights and freedom for Kurdish national leader Abdullah Ocalan is to kick off tomorrow.
Kurdish people in Europe, members of KON-KURD (the Confederation of Kurdish Associations in Europe), artists are all gearing up to walk the Long March tomorrow.
“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,” KON-KURD the organiser of the March said in a statement.
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,” KON-KURD said.
The Kurds 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”.