A-Infos (en) US, NYC, MACC: Free Abdullah Öcalan! End U.S. Complicity in Turkey's War on Kurds! - Rally on February 15 in Washington, D.C.! (ca, de, it, pt, tr)[machine translation]

"With Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan entering his 25th year of 
imprisonment and Turkey escalating its war of aggression against 
North-East Syria, we call on people and organizations in the United 
States to join us in support of the International Freedom for Öcalan 
Campaign. Öcalan's imprisonment, enabled by the US government's ongoing 
political and military support for Turkey, is a major obstacle to peace 
in the Middle East. The time has come to #FreeOcalan and to end Turkey's 
ongoing war against Kurds and the peoples of North-East Syria." - 
Emergency Committee for Rojava (ECR)
In solidarity with the Emergency Committee for Rojava and coordination 
with the international campaign "Freedom for Ocalan, A Political 
Solution for the Kurdish Question," MACC NYC is calling for your 
participation in a Washington D.C. rally on February 15 - the 25th 
anniversary of the abduction of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, who is 
seen by millions of Kurds globally as their political representative. On 
this date in 1999, Öcalan was abducted in a U.S.-backed international 
intelligence operation.

Read ECR's full statement here 
https://www.defendrojava.org/news/call-to-action-free-ocalan-end-us-complicity-in-turkeys-war-on-kurds

Meet ECR in Washington DC for a public demonstration in front of the 
White House (on Pennsylvania Ave NW) on Thursday, February 15th, at 2-4 pm.
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Call to Action: Free Abdullah Öcalan! End U.S. Complicity in Turkey's 
War on Kurds!

Call for Rally February 15 in Washington DC
Free Abdullah Öcalan: End U.S. Complicity in Turkey's War on Kurds!
In coordination with the international campaign "Freedom for Ocalan, A 
Political Solution for the Kurdish Question," the Emergency Committee 
for Rojava is calling for your participation in a Washington D.C. rally 
on February 15 - the 25th anniversary of the abduction of Kurdish leader 
Abdullah Öcalan, who is seen by millions of Kurds globally as their 
political representative. On this date in 1999, Öcalan was abducted in a 
U.S.-backed international intelligence operation.

Abdullah Ocalan has been kept in an island prison in Turkey ever since, 
barred from all contact with the outside world for years at a time. He 
has been subjected to torture and other cruel and degrading treatment. 
Since March 25, 2021, Öcalan has been denied access to all means of 
communication and contact with the outside world, including his lawyers 
and family, a condition, known as "incommunicado detention/absolute 
non-communication," that is a form of torture that violates Turkish 
Constitutional Law and the European Convention on Human Rights.

The international 'Freedom for Öcalan' campaign unites millions of Kurds 
worldwide with social movements, political parties, municipalities, 
unions, activists, and intellectuals around a shared goal: ending 
Turkey's ongoing colonization and oppression of Kurds. It calls for 
Kurdish leader Abdullah Ocalan's participation in a renewed dialogue for 
a just peace.

Turkey's ability to wage war on Kurds across the region is the result of 
decades of unconditional support from NATO and the United States: 
Washington is Turkey's primary arms supplier; and U.S. political and 
legal designations criminalize Kurdish politics worldwide.

In 1978, Öcalan founded the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) in an attempt 
to liberate the Kurdish people from the systemic violence of colonial 
oppression. He later outlined a new vision of Kurdish freedom, one that 
broke with the statist pattern altogether and charted a path toward 
multiethnic grassroots democracy, women's freedom, and social ecology. 
This vision is being put into practice in North and East Syria (also 
known as Rojava), where millions of people from different ethnic and 
religious groups live together under a democratic and peaceful system of 
self-governance.

Öcalan's vision is a path to peace, and he has unilaterally declared 
ceasefires nine times. From 2013 to 2015, Öcalan also served as the lead 
negotiator in a historic attempt to resolve Turkey's Kurdish question at 
the negotiating table. But Turkey's increasingly dictatorial president, 
Recep Tayyip Erdogan, has cynically chosen to stoke anti-Kurdish 
sentiments to consolidate his own power. As a result, dialogue has been 
replaced with invasions, drone strikes, assassinations, mass 
imprisonment, and the complete dismissal of the rule of law in Turkey.

Turkey has consistently attacked the peaceful region of North-East 
Syria, targeting women's rights defenders, minority groups, civilians 
and civilian infrastructure including water supplies. In recent weeks, 
Turkish has bombarded Rojava's electrical infrastructure depriving more 
than a million people of electricity. Its cross-border attacks into 
Iraqi Kurdistan and crackdown on dissent at home and abroad makes a 
political solution urgent now more than ever.  Öcalan's release and 
participation in peace talks is critical to securing the full rights of 
Kurds and other religious and ethnic minorities to live a peaceful 
existence in the Middle East. It is time to Free Abdullah Öcalan and end 
U.S. complicity in Turkey's war on the Kurds!

  - Emergency Committee for

https://maccnyc.substack.com/p/free-abdullah-ocalan-end-us-complicity
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