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Mass Hunger Strike Win A Positive Sign For Kurdish Struggle - New Matilda

16.6.19

Mass Hunger Strike Win A Positive Sign For Kurdish Struggle - New Matilda: The Melbourne-based group Australians for Kurdistan in its submission to a parliamentary review of terrorist listings stated that the PKK “has never deliberately targeted civilians or engaged in indiscriminate violence”.

Ocalan, now in his 20th year in gaol on the island of Imrali, 35 miles south-west of Istanbul, has been likened to a latter day Mandela type figure. His release is seen as critical to ending the four decades-old conflict and to achieving Kurdish autonomy.

The recent local government elections were another positive sign that the progressive voice for the rights of Kurds in Turkey is on the rise. Progressive opposition parties now control five of Turkey’s six largest population centres.


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