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The Swedish-Kurdish Culture Association in Stockholm expresses its deepest respect to the martyrs of the heroic people of the Northern Ireland.
The hungerstrike of Bobby Sand and his comrades in 1981 inspired the revolutionaries from the Kurdistan Worker's Party, the PKK, who staged a similar hungerstrike thousands of miles away in the infamous Turkish military prison in Diyarbakir (capital of the occupied north Kurdistan). During the 64 day long hungerstrike, that started 14th July 1982, four Kurdish revolutionaries, Mehmet Hayri Durmus, Kemal Pir, Ali Cicek and Akif Yilmaz from the PKK gave their lives. Their resistence against the fascist Turkish military junta paved the way for a 15 years long armed struggle. The resistence and the armed struggle managed to bring the Kurdish people back to the life after 70 years of massacres, oppression and assimilation. Once again we salute the martyrs of the hungerstrike of 1981 and sends our revolutionary regards to all participants of the memorial event in Derry.
28 february 2000 |