{"id":13680,"date":"2025-06-16T08:15:04","date_gmt":"2025-06-16T08:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/freedomforabdullahocalan.org\/en\/?p=13680"},"modified":"2025-06-16T08:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-06-16T08:15:07","slug":"kurdish-political-parties-want-to-meet-with-abdullah-ocalan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/freedomocalansyria.com\/en\/?p=13680","title":{"rendered":"Kurdish political parties want to meet with Abdullah \u00d6calan"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

DEM Party Deputy Co-Chair \u00d6zlem G\u00fcnd\u00fcz stated that a delegation of Kurdish political parties they met with during the \u201cCall for Peace and a Democratic Society Meetings\u201d requested to meet with Abdullah \u00d6calan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\"\"<\/figure>\n\n\n\n

<\/p>\n\n\n\n

As part of the “Peace and Democratic Society Call Meetings,” a delegation composed of Tuncer Bak\u0131rhan, Co-Chair of the Peoples\u2019 Equality and Democracy Party (DEM Party), Mehmet Kama\u00e7 and G\u00fclcan Ka\u00e7maz Sayyi\u011fit, Co-Spokespersons of the Democratic Unity Initiative, and \u00d6zlem G\u00fcnd\u00fcz, Deputy Co-Chair of the DEM Party, visited political parties in Amed (Diyarbak\u0131r) on Saturday. The delegation met with the Human and Freedom Party (PIA), Revolutionary Democratic Culture Association (DDKD), Kurdistan Communist Party (KKP), Azad\u00ee Party, Kurdistan Democratic Party – Turkey (PDK-Turkey), and Kurdistan Socialist Party (PSK). \u00d6zlem G\u00fcnd\u00fcz, who was part of the delegation, stated that the issue of Kurdish National Unity came to the forefront during the meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00d6zlem G\u00fcnd\u00fcz said that the meetings were held in connection with the \u201cPeace and Democratic Society Call\u201d issued by Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah \u00d6calan on February 27. She explained that they were not only engaging with parties represented in Parliament but also discussing the call with all leftist and socialist circles, labor and professional organizations, and through public meetings. These discussions focus on informing, exchanging views and suggestions, and evaluating the course of the process. As part of this effort, the DEM Party visited some Kurdish political parties and plan to meet with others as well. According to G\u00fcnd\u00fcz, no segment of society will be left out of meetings.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

A stronger path of struggle was discussed<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Speaking to the Mezopotamya Agency (MA), \u00d6zlem G\u00fcnd\u00fcz stated that during the visits, the idea emerged that Kurdish national unity is significant not only in Turkey and Kurdistan, but also throughout the Middle East, and that it holds a decisive role in the process. She noted that the opening of the space for democratic politics presents an opportunity for political unity, and discussions focused on how this opportunity could be transformed through a stronger struggle.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Parties will fulfill their responsibilities for unity and the process<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The DEM Party politician stated that the meetings were positive and the parties they spoke with highlighted the importance of unity: \u201cThey expressed their readiness to fulfill every duty and responsibility that falls upon them, both for the sake of the process and for Kurdish unity. Of course, there is also a state of waiting. There is curiosity about how the process will evolve. We held productive discussions on whether concrete steps will be taken regarding issues such as equal citizenship for Kurds, the current state of local administrations, and the mother tongue issue, and on how negotiations could be conducted and accelerated through struggle. We have held such meetings before, but we also agreed to hold them more regularly and more frequently from now on. Overall, the meetings were positive and constructive.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

G\u00fcnd\u00fcz remarked that participants frequently mentioned a state of waiting from the government side and said, \u201cThere is curiosity and, to some extent, an expectation about what will happen. At this point, there is consensus that we must organize collectively and more strongly in the field of democratic politics, voice these concrete demands, and develop a method of struggle based on these demands. They stated that they would support any concrete steps that lead to success in the struggle and contribute to Kurdish gains, and that they are already giving a struggle to this end.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Kurdish parties want to meet with \u00d6calan<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u00d6zlem G\u00fcnd\u00fcz stated that Kurdish political parties also voiced suggestions and criticisms: \u201cThey proposed that concrete steps be taken regarding Kurdish rights, especially the mother tongue issue, in any talks to be held with the state. There were also joint proposals. As you know, \u00d6calan had previously expressed his wish to meet with Kurdish leaders such as Talabani and Barzani. Similarly, it was stated that it would be beneficial for a delegation, formed by Kurdish institutions and political parties through mutual agreement, to meet with \u00d6calan for direct discussions on the democratic resolution of the Kurdish question. We said that we would convey these proposals as well. If the channels and paths for this are opened, it would also be beneficial for them. Mr. \u00d6calan has generally expressed such a desire. Conducting joint discussions on the resolution of the Kurdish question would contribute to its democratic solution.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Talks will continue<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

G\u00fcnd\u00fcz stated that their meetings would continue, concluding:\u201cThere are still parties we have not yet met with. We will visit them soon, and from now on, we will also hold regular and periodic meetings.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

https:\/\/cdn.iframe.ly\/ximLeZRQ?v=1&app=1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

DEM Party Deputy Co-Chair \u00d6zlem G\u00fcnd\u00fcz stated that a delegation of Kurdish political parties they met with during the \u201cCall for Peace and a Democratic Society Meetings\u201d requested to meet with Abdullah \u00d6calan. As part of the “Peace and Democratic Society Call Meetings,” a delegation composed of Tuncer Bak\u0131rhan, Co-Chair of the Peoples\u2019 Equality and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":13681,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13680","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/freedomocalansyria.com\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/1000-23.jpg?fit=990%2C556&ssl=1","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomocalansyria.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13680","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomocalansyria.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomocalansyria.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomocalansyria.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomocalansyria.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13680"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/freedomocalansyria.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13680\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13682,"href":"https:\/\/freedomocalansyria.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13680\/revisions\/13682"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomocalansyria.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13681"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/freedomocalansyria.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13680"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomocalansyria.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13680"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/freedomocalansyria.com\/en\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13680"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}