Kurdish demonstrators in Berlin asking for removal of Kurdistan Workers Party in the Germany’s terror list

Kurdish demonstrators in Berlin asking for removal of Kurdistan Workers Party in the Germany’s terror list from germany

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  1. More insight on what is the reason Kurds are asking for the removal of their biggest party on the terror list:

    * [US should follow Belgium’s lead and end PKK terror designation](https://www.aei.org/op-eds/us-should-follow-belgiums-lead-and-end-pkk-terror-designation/)

    * [Kurdish leaders celebrate Belgian court’s ruling that the PKK is not a terrorist organisation](https://morningstaronline.co.uk/article/b/kurdish-leaders-celebrate-belgian-court-ruling-that-the-pkk-not-a-terrorist-organisation)

    > Investigations started in 2006 against the politicians, including Brussels-based Kurdistan National Congress (KNK) officials Zubeyir Aydar, Remzi Kartal and Adem Uzun.

    > But in November 2016 Brussels ruled that the PKK is not a terrorist organisation and that the case against them should be dismissed.

    > A series of appeals followed by the Turkish state and Belgian prosecutor’s office.

    > In a separate lawsuit, the European Court of Justice ruled in April 2018 that the inclusion of the PKK on the EU list of terrorist organisations was “unrightful” and that it had only been kept on it due to procedural errors.

    > Tuesday’s [January 28, 2020] verdict upheld a previous decision that PKK activity is not terrorism and as such acquitted the 37 defendants, ruling that they cannot be tried under terrorism laws in Belgium.

  2. I am not a fan of left demonstrations but in this case, i‘m with them. Kurdish people were killed in south turkey and pkk is the only institution who protect the kurds from genocide.

  3. But that could make Recep Tayyip Erdoğan really unhappy with our performance and could open the “refugees flood gates” to Europe as a punishment. /s.

  6. Does it actually make a difference for the PKK if Germany decides to not have them on a list?

    Turkey surely won’t change it just because of Germany. The only thing it would do is make turkey angry and potentially open the floodgates of another bigger refugee crisis

  8. Honestly, i couldn’t understand the reasoning behind removing a terrorist organization which is responsible of killing thousands of innocent people from a terror list. Even though, it didn’t have a place in the western media, Kuridish Workers Party organized suicide attacks and performed massive civilian killing on the big cities of Turkey.So, this is a really sensitive topic because huge part of Turkey have been suffering from this violance, killing and the aggression created by these terrorists.

    If Belgium or any other state removed this party from teror list, it would be harmful for the relations between Turkey and and the country whether the Turkey’s president is Erdoğan or not.( Anti Erdoğan here)

    And also, there would be a more severe global consequence when any Country legalize any terrorist organization in anyway. This leads an idea that violance, mass civilian killing would be rewarded. And we would have more isil, PKK, el kaide threating the civilian life.

    So, i think it is clear that i am Turkish citizen and we are simply waiting empathy from European people that we are living under the threat of terrorism of different groups nearly 40 years and having the fear losing our life on a suicide attack is the worst thing. Simply you cannot trust anyone on the street.

    I believe every human being deserves to live in peaceful and secure environment.

  12. Kurds are suppressed since more than a 100 years or so, this is only an insane can deny

    but on the other hand PKK with majority of the other national parties were condemned of violence, terror and kill of civilians.
    PKK is not different of any national party in Middle East neither if it was Arabic, Kurdish, or Israeli.

  14. If killing in the name of freedom is not terror, define what terror is? Is there any terror organization in the world whose sole purpose is frightening people.

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