Elif Kaya from the #Jineoloji Center: The slogan of #JinJiyanAzadi began in a banned language of #Kurdish. But what #WomenLifeFreedom announces is that a society where women are not free, cannot be seen as free. #KurdConfEP

Vice-President @papadimoulis tells the @Europarl_EN that is it crucial that Europe removes the #PKK from the terrorist list and uses the example of the #Basque resistance movement as a model for peaceful reconciliation. #KurdConfEP

Swedish MEP @EvinIncir: “We cannot live in the country we were born in because we were thrown out as Kurds… My grandmothers village was burned down in 1993 by the Turkish military.” #KurdConfEP

Writer Aslı Erdoğan @aslierdogn: “In terms of political prisoners, Turkey is the world champions. And the majority of those in prison are Kurds.” #KurdConfEP

Austrian MEP @SCHIEDER describes how those cities that had #Kurdish mayors or majority Kurdish populations in #Turkey did not receive equal assistance after the last devastating earthquake in Turkey. #KurdConfEP

DBP Co-Chair & MP @cigdemkilicgun discusses the idea of “Erdoğanism”, describing how the alliance of the AKP and MHP has changed the political landscape in Turkey and attacked the idea of hope. Lamenting, “Hope was not enough to win the last elections in Turkey.” #KurdConfEP