JINHA

ANKARA – Women of the Democratic Peoples’ Party (HDP) state that the peace environment can be provided by lifting the isolation imposed upon the PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan and returning to the solution progress. “We call all women, particularly Kurdish women to take to streets for peace,” said women as their call for September 1.

The PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan has been denied access to his lawyers since 2011 and his family and Imranlı Delegation since April 5, 2015. War and chaos have become deeper by denying the access and aggravating the isolation. Women wish September 1 Peace Day brings peace for peoples in Turkey and Kurdistan and they call on everyone to take to streets against the isolation and fascism.

The HDP Siirt MP Besime Konca indicated that people have faced a fascist regime and massacres have been carried out every day, cities have been demolished for one year, “In this sense, September 1 Peace Day is an important day for democracy and human rights. If a message or call needs to be given, the message should be for the freedom of Mr. Öcalan. Everybody’s call should be for lifting the isolation on Mr. Öcalan. Otherwise, the isolation will become more violent against all people.”

Ankara Peace Mothers’ Assembly member Yıldız Bahçeci said, “A war has been carried out against Kurdish people in Turkey for 40 years. This dirty war can be stopped by the Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan. Kurdish people cannot be free without the freedom of Mr. Öcalan and Turkey cannot be democratized.”

Yıldız also said, “We call for peace even when we visit our children’s graves. We never say, ‘We want blood against the war’ even if we have experienced the war for years. We always call for peace.”

“On September 1 Peace Day, we primarily want all isolation conditions imposed upon Mr. Abdullah Öcalan to be lifted. We ask the Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Ocalan to be free,” said the HDP Ankara Secretary Gülistan Tekin and also said, “We wish the September 1 Peace Day to bring peace to these lands.”

(de/gc/gd)