Today, the People’s Caravan—of which we also took part as an organization—was stopped at the Turkish state border.
Its aim was to establish a humanitarian corridor from Europe to the besieged city of Kobanê, in order to protect the civilian population there from a looming humanitarian catastrophe.

At the same time, an internationalist delegation in Bakur, between Mardin and Nusaybin, was detained and abducted by the fascist police. The delegation had travelled to Kurdistan to support the protests of the Kurdish people at the colonial border between North and West Kurdistan (Rojava).

The latest repression against internationalists once again shows the Turkish state’s attempt to intimidate critical voices and to prevent human rights violations and crimes committed across all parts of Kurdistan from reaching the public eye. The goal is also to put the international solidarity movement under pressure and obstruct its work.

We cannot allow this to go unchallenged. While the Turkish state continues to deny the Kurdish people their most basic rights and exerts political pressure on the Kurdish movement, through its policies and support for regional actors it also contributes to the escalation of violence—including in Rojava.

For this very reason, it is more important than ever to stand together in solidarity, to closely follow these developments, and to continue our resistance against oppression and violence with determination.

We call on all progressive people in Europe and beyond to take to the streets today—and to keep international solidarity alive in practice in the future as well.
They may stop a caravan, they may abduct a delegation, but they can neither stop the resistance and will to live of the Kurdish people, nor the worldwide solidarity movement.

Peoples Bridge – 28.01.2026