JINHA

BRUSSELS- Kurdish women met with the foreign affairs adviser of the president of the EP before the demonstration with the demand freedom for the PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan taking place in front of the EP today.

A Kurdish women’s committee comprised of TJK-E spokesperson Hinena Erişen, International Kurdish Women’s Movement representative Nursel Kılıç and NAV-BEL Co-chair Arife Soysüren met with Dr. Djamila Chikhi, advisor in foreign affairs to European Parliament President Martin Schultz before the demonstration led by TJK-E to be held today in front of the EP with the motto “Women in action for their Leader and their Freedom”.

The committee pointed out the genocidal policies and practices of the Turkish state over Kurdistan and underlined that the crisis in the Middle East, called as the World War III, could only be overcome by the PKK Leader Abdullah Öcalan, who has been still held under aggravated isolation conditions. The committee stated that the Kurdish women were in resistance against the isolation and genocide practices in every front and the women presented a file of acknowledgement on the trustees during the meeting. The women requested the EP to exert necessary political pressure and issue the necessary warnings on Turkey.

Djamila Chikhi, meanwhile, said she would relay the demands of the Kurdish people and Kurdish women to the presidency and concluded by saying that the EP is interested in the Kurds and their struggle and they will make concrete attempts as well.

(gc/gd)