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Australia should de-list PKK as a terrorist organisation

The Court of Justice of the European Union ruled on November 22 that the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK) was wrongly on its list of terrorist organisations between 2014-17.

Rally and march in Melbourne in solidarity with the Kurdish struggle.

Campaign launched to de-list the PKK

Australians for Kurdistan (AFK) committee has launched a campaign for the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to be removed from the Australian government’s list of terrorist organisations.

The PKK was first listed in 2005; its listing comes up for review this August.

In the light of the frontline role the PKK has played in fighting the Islamic State killers in Syria and Iraq and in mobilising support within Turkey for Rojava (the Kurdish-majority liberated zone in northern Syria), to label the PKK as “terrorist” is simply ridiculous.