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Picket for Shilan Ozcelik at Holloway Prison

The document is a press release announcing a protest picket outside Holloway Prison to call for the immediate release of 18-year old Shilan Ozcelik, who is imprisoned for allegedly wanting to join the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to fight ISIS. The UK government is accused of criminalizing the Kurdish struggle and appeasing Turkey, who supports ISIS. The picket is organized by several Kurdish and human rights organizations to protest Ozcelik's imprisonment and the broader criminalization of the Kurdish community in the UK.

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Picket for Shilan Ozcelik at Holloway Prison

The document is a press release announcing a protest picket outside Holloway Prison to call for the immediate release of 18-year old Shilan Ozcelik, who is imprisoned for allegedly wanting to join the Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) to fight ISIS. The UK government is accused of criminalizing the Kurdish struggle and appeasing Turkey, who supports ISIS. The picket is organized by several Kurdish and human rights organizations to protest Ozcelik's imprisonment and the broader criminalization of the Kurdish community in the UK.

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Press Release: For Immediate Release.

London, 13 March 2015


PICKET OUTSIDE HOLLOWAY PRISON FOR SHILAN OZCELIK,
IMPRISONED FOR ALLEGEDLY WANTING TO JOIN FIGHT AGAINST
ISIS, 13th March 2015, 6PM!
The Kurdish community and supporters of the Kurdish struggle are incensed
at the arrest and imprisonment of 18 year old Shilan (Silhan) Ozcelik, who is
accused of wanting to join the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) to fight the
Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL/ISIS).
The UK government in its steadfastness to appease the Turkish state, who
are continuing to support ISIS, and withhold support from the Kurdish armed
movement, the Peoples Protection Units (YPG) and Womens Protection
Units (YPJ) has made clear whose side the government are on. The recent
killing of the heroic Konstandinos Erik Scurfield (Kemal) in the battle against
ISIS in Rojava (Northern Syria), has garnered a very positive approach from
the British media and public. The UK government has been afraid of this
support for the Kurdish struggle because for a 100 years the UK state has
been one of the initiators and supporters of Kurdish oppression in the Middle
East. This is why they have delayed and not supported the repatriation of
Konstandinos Erik Scurfield and criminalized the struggle he has sacrificed his
life for.
The Kurdistan Workers Party, which is on the terror list in the UK, EU and
USA was added to this list in 2002 during a 5 year unilateral ceasefire, at the
behest of Turkey. The PKK have never posed a threat to the UK and
threatened this country. This listing is evidently political and to do with the
economic and political ties between the Turkish and British states. Using this
listing the UK government has been criminalising the Kurds for at least 13
years, yet not one Kurdish individual has been charged and convicted of
being a PKK member, despite many raids, arrests and intimidations. The case
of Shilan Ozcelik is the most recent chapter of this story and the Kurdish
community are now concerned that the UK government will, in its attempt to
seem impartial to certain sections of British society, once again criminalise
the community who have been the biggest supporters of the international fight
against ISIS terror and fascism.
To call for the immediate release of Shilan Ozcelik and to call for an end to the
criminalisation of the Kurdish community we are organising a picket outside
Holloway Prison, tonight (13.03.2015) at 6pm where Shilan Ozcelik is being
held.
Roj Women's Association, Kurdish Youth Assembly, Kurdish People's
Assembly, CAMPACC, Peace in Kurdistan, KNK, MAFDAD (Kurdish Lawyers
Association), Kurdish Community Centre, Roj Women's Assembly
Contact: Mark Campbell 07865079415

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