JINHA

AMED – Citizens are holding noise demos and tuning off the lights everyday at 8 p.m. for freedom of the PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan and peace. “Silence leads to bigger problems, remain silent always brings turn to you. We should resist. All bad things are afraid of noise and light,” said citizens.

50 Kurdish politicians launched an indefinite-irreversible hunger strike on September 5 with demand of a meeting with the PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan within the framework of the legal rules following the aggravated isolation imposed upon Abdullah Öcalan. The hunger was ended after Abdullah Öcalan’s brother Mehmet Öcalan went to Imralı Island and talked to Abdullah Öcalan. All citizens have been holding noise demos and tuning off the lights every day at 8 p.m. with the demand of freedom of the PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan and a step to be taken for peace by the government. People have continued their resistance by holding noise demos in all around the Kurdistan.

One of citizens in Diyarbakır, Dilek Dolar expressed they joined the noise demos every evening in order to express their reaction, “We should raise our voice. I am holding noise demo to raise our voice. We feel sorry when we watch the news on TV the country situation. We think we cannot do anything for that. However, we can express we are not satisfied with current process of the country and we want peace and democracy by joining the notice demo every day at 8 p.m.”

Nalan Kaycı stated that the will of the Kurdish people had been ignored and said, “We should take action for our will. An aggravated isolation imposed upon the PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan. Our will has been ignored by dismissing our elected mayors and appointing trustees to our municipalities. Silence leads to bigger problems, remain silent always brings turn to you. We should resist. All bad things are afraid of noise and light.”

Fatma Özmen stated that the isolation is not humanistic, “The time is struggle time in this period of the country. No one can touch elected people and municipalities. I support the noise demo and I will continue to support. We call upon all people to support the demo. Isolation is not humanistic. The government wants war while we demand peace. We will be insistent on peace. The isolation imposed upon the PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan should be lifted immediately and he should be free. If we do whatever the government wants, the country will slide into chaos.”

Pembe Kardeş, meanwhile, said she held the noise demo every night at 8 p.m. “We will continue make sound against the isolation. First the isolation imposed upon leadership should be lifted in order to stop the war environment in the country. The isolation imposed upon Öcalan is not humanistic. Öcalan is the will of the people and the Kurdish people should stand up for their leadership.”

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