The two day Northern Kurdistan Conference for Solution and Unity in the main Kurdish city Amed has ended on June 16. The conference was organized as a part of the four conferences Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan suggested should take place in the ongoing process in search of a peaceful and democratic solution to the Kurdish question.
The final declaration of the conference called on the government to take more sincere steps for the solution of the Kurdish question and demanded Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan’s freedom to ensure a healthy progress in the solution process.
Reading the Turkish side of the final declaration, which was released in Kurdish as well, DTK (Democratic Society Congress) co-chair Aysel Tuğluk underlined that “the conference which was attended by Kurdistani identities has been a significant step serving for a free future for Kurdistan”.
Tuğluk listed the thirteen points decided on at the conference including;
* Öcalan created a historic opportunity and taken concrete and sincere steps for a democratic and peaceful solution to the Kurdish question. Our conference has stated that the government must also take steps displaying the same sincerity and seriousness.
Our delegation is concerned over the language the government is still using and the attitude it is displaying, the construction of new military posts in the Kurdish region and the increase in the employment of village guards. It calls for the ending of these practices which lead to the loss of public trust and questioning of the government’s sincerity towards the process.
In this respect, our conference demands freedom for Abdullah Öcalan, the main actor of the democratic solution process, in order to ensure a healthy progress in the solution process.
* Our conference decided that no lasting solution could be achieved for the Kurdish question unless Kurdistan gains a status. It was agreed that the people of Kurdistan have the right to national self-determination (such as autonomy-federation-independence) on the basis of their own decisions and choices.
* Our delegation demands the formation of a contemporary and democratic constitution and constitutional guarantee for Kurds’ right of organization, for mother tongue education and for the recognition of Kurdish as official language.
*Our conference announces support to the popular revolution people in Rojava reformed on the basis of their own power and politics. It considers it significant that their unity and alliance should be ensured under the umbrella of Kurdish High Council. It indicates that each person in Kurdistan should protect the achievements accomplished in Rojava. It condemns the dictator regime and all attacks some gang groups affiliated to the Syrian opposition launch against Rojava. Our conference calls on Rojava to keep its door open and the people of Kurdistan to launch aid campaigns for Rojava. It urges the international community to demand that relevant Syrian mechanisms officially recognize the Rojava Kurdistan.
*Legal arrangements are required to enable the release of all political prisoners in jails, child and ill prisoners in particular.
Firat News Agency