With little left before the 12 December general elections in Britain, Kurdish and Turkish organisations and parties declared their support for the Labour Party.

 

Kurdish and Turkish intellectuals, writers, journalists, artists, academics and lawyers issued a joint declaration to call on their communities to vote for Jeremy Corbyn and to express full support for the Labour Party manifesto.

 

"The Kurdish and Turkish community in England, we are proud to support the Labour Party's manifesto. As the austerity policies deepened, poverty began to be felt more and inequality grew much faster. Like all ethnic minorities, the Kurdish and Turkish communities were turned into scapegoats."

 

The declaration recalled that racist aggressions suffered by Kurds in the past couple of years and underlined the support and solidarity shown by the Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn with Turkish and Kurdish communities in North London for 35 years.

 

The declaration also recalled Jeremy Corbyn's support for the Kurds against Saddam Hussein in Iraq and against Iran Kurdish policy of repression of Kurds. "Jeremy Corbyn has visited the region many times. Likewise today, Labour Party deputies and activists have visited and expressed their solidarity to the thousands of HDP activists, employees and deputies in prison in Turkey." 

 

The declaration, which emphasized that a conservative government would bring more wars, more poverty and more racist attacks agains refugees displaced by wars, invited everyone to vote for the Labour Party and its progressives and anti-racists policies on 12 December.

 

The declaration is signed by the following:

 

Canan Sagar – Musician,

 

Akın Olgun – Journalist – Writer

 

Deniz Ciftci – Academic

 

Alaettin Siyanic – Journalist

 

Ahmet Guven – Writer

 

Mizgin Müjde Arslan - Film Maker

 

Tugba Ozcivan - Music Teacher, Singer

 

Baran Duran - musician

 

Suna Alan – Singer

 

Özkan Orman- Artist

 

Gulseren Tas – Actress

 

Cemi Salih – DJ

 

Berguzar Erdogan / Singer

 

Hikmet Erden- Journalist

 

Kamil Küpeli – Poet

 

Zafer Armutlu – Solicitor

 

Ali Has – Solicitor

 

Sibel Gungor – solicitor

 

Suna Tiskaya – Solicitor

 

Ilkay Timur Aydemir - Solicitor-Advocate

 

Sevcan Kaygun - Solicitor

 

Saim Basbaydar – Solicitor

 

Guven Ates - Solicitor

 

Suna Tiskaya - Solicitor

 

Sefaret Yaman – Solicitor

 

Vesile Tekas – Solicitor

 

Onder Karpuz – Solicitor

 

Suna Derinkursun – Solicitor

 

Rauf Khalilov – Solicitor

 

Bektas Cetin – Solicitor

 

Sevim Tombul - Solicitor-Advocate

 

Silan Has – Solicitor

 

Dogan Dogus – Solicitor

 

Aynur Celik – Solicitor

 

Cilem Dogus – Solicitor

 

 

 

Yagmur Hanim Bulut – Solicitor

 

Aycan Misir – Solicitor

 

Berivan Coskun – Solicitor

 

Hasan Yildirim – Solicitor

 

Mahmut Dogan – Musician

 

Sevgi Ulcay – Activist

 

Kenan Hudaverdi -Director

 

Sultan Karatas Poet

 

Ruhi Karadag – Film Director

 

Feyzullah Cinpolat - Day-Mer Community Activist

 

İbrahim Avcil – Gik-Der - Community Activist

 

Kalender Ülger – Kirkisrak Community Centre Organiser

 

Sultan Cakir – Teacher

 

Deniz Engin – Teacher

 

Guner Aydın- CLLR

 

Yusuf Kul – Accountant

 

Dr Mehmet Kurt, London School of Economics and Political Science

 

Argun Cakir - University of Bristol, Department of Music, postdoctoral research assistant

 

Meryem Kaya - Medical Doctor

 

Srwa Mustafa (Nérgiz) - Civil ServiceAta Mufty - Journalist and Activist

 

Elif Gun - Graduate and Activist

 

Elif Sarican - Anthropologist and Organiser

 

Kumru Baser / Journalist

 

Sibel Gungor / Councelor

 

Ferhan Yetisal / Councelor

 

Aysel Kirmizikan / Councelor Rabia Cinar / Propreitor

 

Rana Aksac / Psychotherapist

 

Banu Aydin / Therapist

 

Macide Yuksel- Senior CBT Psychotherapist

 

Hanim Akdemir – Optic Manager

 

Olcay Aniker – Solicitor

 

Zuhal Borucu Kocadag – ManagerMeral Halkaci - Community Activist

 

Memet Kardu – Kurdish People’s Assembly Community Activist

 

Nejla Coskun - Kurdish People’s Assembly Community Activist

 

Fatma Can – IT Consultant

 

Ferhan Yetisal

 

Sevgi Ulcay – Finance

 

Fatma Aydin - Chartered Accountant

 

Dilek Gungor - Nurse/ Senior psychotherapist

 

Nuran Donmez - Mental Health Social Worker

 

Firat Karaboyun – Accountant

 

Rojda Sipan – Accountant

 

Ilker Yadirgi – Accountant

 

Ala Hassan, Kurdish Student Movement

 

Ari Murad - Television producer

 

Bavil Ahmad, kurdish refugee from South Kurdistan

 

Ayca Cubukcu - Associate Professor in Human Rights, LSE

 

Fezile Ozbaran - Flight Attendant

 

Mustafa Ozbaran - Medical student

 

Tijen Beligh interpreter/ translator

 

Dilek Gungor - Nafsiyat Intercultural Therapy Centre

 

Feride Kumbasar - Consultant and Research Student

 

Ali Dogan - Medical doctor

 

Ozlem Pekbas - IDVA IDVA- Independent Domestic Violence Advocate

 

Eylem Dogan – Phlebotomist

 

Sema Atessal Ugur – Freelance

 

Belgin Koc – Freelance

 

Tulay Gulsen – Advisor

 

Esengul Ozdemir - Nursery Teacher

 

Dr. Zeynep Kurban - Offshore Renewable Energy Catapult

 

Oktay Sahbaz- Teacher

 

Ufuk Uyanik – Artist

 

Baris Celiloglu - Stage Director

 

Mehmet Ugur Professor of Economics and institutions. University of Greenwich

 

Tahir Palali- Musician/ Entrepreneur

 

Av. Serpil Ersan - Solicitor

 

Savaş Yadirgi –Yazar

 

Cemo - Artist

 

Hunting. Serpil Ersan - Solicitor

 

War Yadirgi - Author

 

Cemo - Artist