Category Archives: KCK

KCK Statement on the Paris Massacre

By the KCK Co-Presidency: To the Press and the Public Opinion We vehemently condemn the assault and massacre conducted by the fascist thugs against the weekly satirical magazine and we offer our deepest condolences to the families and relatives of the victims, the French press, and the French people. Bookmark on Delicious Recommend on Facebook…

KCK: Hüda-Par is as much Muslim as ISIS is

By the KCK Co-Presidency: To our People and the Public Opinion The AKP administration and its paramilitary force, Hüda-Par, are continuing their armed attacks on our people in Silopi, Gever (Yuksekova), and particularly Cizre. Special police and military forces open fire on our people from the positions they have taken within the buildings belonging to…

KCK: Kurdistan Defense Forces will defend existence and freedom of Yazidi community

By the KCK Co-Presidency: On 14th August 2007, our Yazidi people in the Shiba and Shex Khidir villages of Shingal suffered a bloodthirsty massacre in which 450 Yazidi Kurds lost their lives. We vehemently condemn the perpetrators of this massacre and remember with respect the victims of the massacre. KCK declared as martyrs those who…

KCK: Settlement process in the North cannot go together with supporting ISIS against Rojava

By the KCK Co-Presidency: To Our Peoples and the Public Opinion The Rojava revolution is the revolution of the entire Kurdistan. Kobani is the heart of the Rojava revolution. The attack on Kobani by ISIS gangs and forces behind it is in fact an attack on the whole people of Kurdistan. These attacks can be…

Free again: Veteran Kurd politician Hatip Dicle is released from Turkish jail

KT News: Hatip Dicle and Hüsamettin Çiçek, two prominent Kurdish politicians jailed for almost 5 years as part of the Turkish state’s KCK (Kurdistan Communities Union) prosecutions, were set free yesterday. Hatip Dicle was a leading member of now-defunct DEP (Democracy Party), which was banned in 1994. Hüsamettin Çiçek is former deputy mayor of the…

KCK: Our guerrilla forces are ready to give any kind of support and fight actively, side by side with the peshmerga forces

By the KCK Co-Presidency: To the patriotic people of Kurdistan and the public opinion The bandit-marauder ISIS organization backed by some international and reactionary regional forces is posing many threats to South Kurdistan. This bandit organization whose main aim is the elimination of the entity and freedom of the Kurds has been carrying out bloodthirsty…

KCK: Lice Massacre has de facto ruled out the non-conflict situation

By the Co-Presidency of the KCK: To our peoples and the public opinion The Kurdish Freedom Movement has been in a non-action position for one and a half years. The AKP administration has misused this position as an opportunity for building new military posts, new dams and new roads for military purposes. It attacked the…

KCK: Erdogan is 21st century-version king of slave empire

By the KCK co-presidency: To our peoples and the public opinion We offer our condolences to the families and relatives of hundreds of mine workers who lost their lives in Soma, Turkey; we wish quick recovery for those wounded in the mine blast. As the Kurdistan Freedom Movement we will stand with you and share…

KDP should side with the Rojava revolution, not build border ditches: KCK

By the KCK Co-presidency: With the implicit approval of the KDP administration, ditches are being dug on the South Kurdistan (KRG) border with Rojava. The people of Rojava have been reacting against this for days. The border ditches and the resulting tension have caused anger and disturbance in Kurdish public opinion. Bookmark on Delicious Recommend…

The people of Kurdistan will never forget the massacres of Halabja, Dersim and Zilan

Halabja, 1988

Statement by the Co-Presidency of the KCK: 26 years ago, on the 16th of March, thousands of Kurds were killed in Halabja, a city in South Kurdistan. Hereby, we vehemently condemn this inhumane massacre against the Kurdish people. What the fascist Saddam regime tried on Halabja was just another instance of Hitler’s fascism and the…

‘Unless otherwise proven, the MIT will be held responsible for the Paris assassinations’

By the Co-Presidency of the KCK Executive Council: One year has passed since the assassinations of Sakine Cansiz, Fidan Dogan and Leyla Shaylemez in Paris; but neither the French nor the Turkish governments have taken any step to find the killers. However, with the escalation of the power conflict in Turkey, documents related to the Paris…

KCK: Kurds want to take part in the Geneva II conference as an independen​t and democratic force

By the Correspondency of the KCK Eexcutive Council: The Geneva II conference on Syria’s future is going to be held on the 22th of January. This conference is supposed to play a role in forming the new Syria. Particularly, an agreement between USA, Russia, and France is expected. But another fact is that the viewpoints…

KCK warns of peace deadlock and condemns Turk involvement in western Kurdistan

KT News: The Kurdish Communities Union (KCK) today issued a strongly-worded statement accusing the Turkish AKP government of attempting to sabotage the peace process. The KCK – the Kurd umbrella organisation that includes the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) – said prime minister Erdoğan’s government has failed to commence the second phase of the peace process…

KCK: ‘Support the protests and also be wary of racist agendas’

Turkey protests

KT News: In a statement today the PKK-associated Kurdish Communities Union (KCK) condemned recent police brutality in Turkey and called on the government to meet the protestors’ demands. It also said that the ‘democratic solution process’ it advocates in the peace talks is aimed at the democratisation of not only the Kurdish region, but also…

KCK statement on the Paris assassinations

Vigil in Paris

By the KCK Executive Council Presidency: 10.01.13 One of the founders of our party the PKK, the elite and advance guard of our movement, a symbol of dignity and resistance, the head cadre representative of the immoveable will of Kurdish women, comrade Sakine Cansız (Sara); Representative of KNK in Paris, the talented diplomat of Kurdish…