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December 6, 2014
COLOGNE,— 84 Kurdish, German and Turkish
organisations are holding a protest march Saturday
in Cologne against the ban on the Kurdistan Workers'
Party, PKK.
YXK executive Sema Kocatepe has issued a statement
calling on all Kurds to attend the demonstration.
The march comes a few days before the interior
ministers of the 16 German states meet in Cologne on
11 and 12 December to discuss, inter alia, the ban
on the PKK. The 84 organisations responded to a call
by the Kurdistan Students’ Union (YXK) and the
Interventionistische Linke (IL) organisation to set
up the “Bündiss Gegen İMK“ platform to protest the
ban on the PKK and other anti-democratic measures in
Germany. The march will start at Freisen Platz at 1
pm, with people expected to come from Berlin,
Bremen, Hamburg, Münih and Frankfurt to join the
protest.
Appeal to join the march
YXK representative Sema Kocatepe said the ban on
the PKK in Germany had become meaningless, adding
that it was time it was lifted. Kocatepe said: “The
PKK ban has taken away one of the most basic rights
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Kurds living in Europe. They have suffered many
injustices. She called on Kurds and democrats in NRW
state to join the march, saying: “The solidarity
demonstrated with Kobanê on 1 November should be
shown at the march against the ban on the PKK.”
Since it was established in 1984 the PKK has been
fighting the Turkish state, which still denies the
constitutional existence of Kurds, with the aim of
creating an independent
Kurdish state. Some 40,000
people are estimated to have been killed.
But now
limited its demands to to establish an autonomous
Kurdish region and more cultural rights for ethnic
Kurds
who make up around
22.5 million
of the country's 75-millionwww.Ekurd.net
population but have long
been denied basic political and cultural rights, its
goal to political autonomy. A large Turkey's Kurdish
community openly sympathise with PKK rebels.
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