Ethnic Kurds in Armenia mark party anniversary

Noyan Tapan news agency, Yerevan
29 Nov 04

YEREVAN

A ceremony to mark the 27th anniversary of the Kurdistan Workers’
Party [former PKK, now People’s Congress of Kurdistan] was held at the
Youth Palace in Yerevan on 27 November. About 100 people took part in
the ceremony, including representatives of the so-called Kurdistan
committee, Kurds from different parts of Armenia, popular Kurdish
singer (?Jomard) who lives in Germany, etc.

A representative of the Caucasus branch of the PKK, (?Bagr Zagros),
made a speech in Kurdish. The chairman of the Kurdistan committee and
editor-in-chief of the Mezopotamia newspaper published in Yerevan,
(?Chakraye Mstoyan), said this ceremony was part of the struggle for
the release of the PKK leader, Abdullah Ocalan. Mstoyan told a Noyan
Tapan correspondent that the problem of Kurdish people attracts
international attention and that the European Court of Human Rights is
expected to make a decision on Ocalan’s release.

Mstoyan is convinced that the demand of the 40m-strong Kurdish people
that Ocalan be released will sooner or later be satisfied.

From: Emil Lazarian | Ararat NewsPress