Prof. Kariane Westrheim stated that everything in the process of resolving the Kurdish issue depends on Turkey's response to Abdullah Öcalan's call and said, “But first of all, Öcalan has to be free. There could be no process without him.”
Emphasising that the state must take quick steps in response to the call made by Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan, "We insist on a democratic and free life and we want an honourable peace," Fehmi Korkmaz, brother of Mahsum Korkmaz, one of the PKK's leading cadres, said.
Prisoner Abdullah Rüzgar, who was released 2 days after welcoming Abdullah Öcalan's call in prison, stated that the call was accepted wholeheartedly by the prisoners and that the state can be forced to take a step by embracing the struggle.
DFG made statement on the occasion of 6 April, the occasion of 6 April Murdered Journalists Day and reminded that 15 journalists were murdered in the las 5 years and said, "We will not leave their pens on the ground".
Herdem Aslan, who lost 2 children in the Kurdish freedom struggle, stated that peace can only be possible with the will for dialogue and solution and said, "Either we will all drown in this sea or we will come out together."
Abdulhafız Çiftçi, 84, who was at the forefront of the youth march from Amed to Amara, stated that "there is no life without the Leader".
Hundreds of skulls and bones belonging to people were unearthed in a shelter accessed through a secret passage of a church in Arbo, an Assyrian village in Nisêbîn district.
The 30-year archive of Kurdish televisions, which started broadcasting via satellite by overcoming bans, is being opened to the public via virtual media platforms.
The 4 April Festival, organised in Xelfetî on the occasion of the 76th birthday of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan, continues on its second day.
Ahmet Yaman, Foreign Affairs Spokesperson of the Swiss Kurdish Assembly, who has 65 days left with Abdullah Öcalan during the International Conspiracy against him, said that Abdullah Öcalan's birthday means the rebirth of Kurds.
Murat Kocabaş, a photojournalist who was detained for covering the protests in Izmir following the arrest of Ekrem İmamoğlu, said, “We were detained due to showing the violence.”
Abdullah Öcalan sent a letter to the youth and stated that the march of the youth is a march to freedom and said, "Therefore, you will organize everywhere."
The gendarmerie prevented the Amara marchers from reaching the entrance of Xelfetî district and attacked them with water cannons and gas bombs.
Amnesty International has documented massacres against Alawites in Syria and called on the Syrian government to hold the perpetrators to account.
Amara marchers commemorated '33 dream travellers' who were massacred in Pirsûs in 2015 in a suicide bomb attack by ISIS. Then they set off for Xelfetî where the 4 April Festival was organised.