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Turkish and Kurdish revolutionary groups launch Europe-wide campaign against fascism
Kurds demonstrate on Strasbourg

TURKISH and Kurdish revolutionary groups launched a Europe-wide campaign against fascism today, urging unity among all peoples to bring freedom to the oppressed.

The Peoples’ United Revolutionary Movement (HBDH), a coalition founded in 2016 to overthrow the government of Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan, launched the campaign in the French city of Strasbourg today.

A statement read out at the rally declared: “Our calls for peace were met with bombs raining down on us. We wanted democracy, but they crowded the prisons with mass arrests.

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