EC Meeting July 2022

RECOMMENDATIONS 1. Erdogan must be charged with war crimes. Those that continue to sell him weapons must also be held accountable 2. Turkish forces must immediately withdraw all forces from Kurdish land. 3. US forces must leave Iraq and Syria. 4. The PKK must be delisted as a terrorist organisation 5. Britain must immediately end arms sales to Turkey and consider other trade agreements with Ankara. 6. The establishment of a mass solidarity campaign in the labour, progressive and anti-war movement to stop the genocide of Kurds. Peace in Kurdistan was launched in October 1994 at a meeting in London with Lord Avebury, Harold Pinter, Arthur Miller, John Berger, Noam Chomsky, John Austin MP and Jeremy Corbyn MP with the aim of building a network of politicians, academics, lawyers, writers, trade unionists and activists to work with and in support of the Kurdish freedom movement and achieving a peaceful political solution of the Kurdish question taking inspiration from Abdullah Öcalan’s ideas and struggles. Since 1999 it worked in support of the International Initiative – Freedom for Öcalan – Peace in Kurdistan and since 2016 the Freedom for Öcalan trade union campaign. It is also a co-founder of the Coalition Against Chemical Weapons in Kurdistan together with Campaign Against Criminalising Communities(CAMPACC) and Defend Kurdistan in March 2022. For more information contact: PEACE IN KURDISTAN Campaign for a political solution of the Kurdish Question estella@gn.apc.org peaceinkurdistancampaign.com mobile: 07846 666 804

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