News Center- The European Kurdish Women's Movement (TJK-E) has released a written statement announcing that the letter-writing campaign launched by the TJK-E on April 18, 2024 to prompt the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) to fulfill its responsibility against the isolation imposed on Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, has been completed.

The statement pointed out that Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan has not been allowed to see anyone for 41 months.

The statement is as follows:

“Although dictator Erdoğan aims to destroy the Kurdish Freedom Movement by carrying out massacres and occupation attacks, this will be his own end. The resistance of the guerrillas and the democratic struggle of the Kurdish people have already overturned his plans. Leader Apo’s paradigm based on democracy, women’s freedom and ecology has become an alternative to the capitalist system suffering from a major crisis.

Dictator Erdoğan aims to establish more sovereignty in the Middle East to make his rule permanent and to go down in history as the leader who realizes the dreams of Neo-Ottomanism. He brings occupation and chaos in the region by using inhuman practices such as war, massacre, migration, arrests, violence, rape and femicide. All international organizations and countries, so-called democratic organizations and countries, play ostrich by sitting and watching the genocidal policies and supporting and giving the green light to the dictator Erdoğan's government.

‘The international forces are responsible for genocidal policies’

The international forces are responsible for the genocidal policies and the absolute isolation against the Kurdish people. The CPT should impose sanctions (on Türkiye) to end the isolation imposed in the prison island of Imrali and release its reports to the public.

As the European Kurdish Women's Movement, we launched a letter-writing campaign on April 19 with participation of thousands of women from different countries as part of the ‘Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan and a political solution to the Kurdish question’ campaign. We have completed the campaign. More than 20,000 letters have been sent to the CPT, reminding the CPT of its duty and calling on it to fulfill its duty. We call on the CPT once again to fulfill its duty.