Kurdish-Australians and their supporters rallied at聽Sydney Town Hall square聽on April 15 to call on the Australian government and other world powers to stand up against the isolation of Kurdish leader Abdullah 脰calan, who has been imprisoned by the Turkish state since February 1999.聽
Australian Federation of Democratic Kurdish Society Co-chair聽Gulfer聽Olan said聽that it was the Kurdish leader鈥檚 鈥渄emocratic, ecological and gender libertarian ideas and paradigm that the Turkish regime and its supporters want to prevent with this isolation鈥.
Peter Boyle, on聽behalf of Rojava Solidarity Sydney and Socialist Alliance, said that the unprecedent attempt to silence and erase 脰calan by social media platforms would not stop his ideas from spreading.
He said the Rojava revolution and the global popularity of the slogan 鈥淲omen, Life, Freedom鈥 鈥 which summed up his idea that the liberation of women was the key to human liberation聽鈥 showed that this unprecedented censorship had failed.
Ismet Tashtan, the co-chair of the Democratic Kurdish聽Community Centre (NSW) said that聽脰calan was not just a leader to the Kurds but also a 鈥渧oice for all the voiceless and oppressed鈥.