2023-05-28 10:09:24
Lost in the middle of a commercial area of Arnouville (Val-d’Oise), the Kurdish cultural house is preparing to experience an evening full of emotions on Sunday May 28. In the large hall where flags of the PKK (Workers’ Party of Kurdistan) and portraits of Abdullah Öcalan, founder of the party, are hung, dozens of Kurds will meet to follow the results of the second round of the presidential election in Turkey , opposing Recep Tayyip Erdogan to Kemal Kiliçdaroglu.
All support the same candidate. Or rather, unanimously hate each other. The mobilization in recent weeks has therefore been very strong in this region of Val-d’Oise where the towns of Villiers-le-Bel, Arnouville, Sarcelles and Gonesse concentrate the largest Kurdish community in France. On January 3, in Villiers-le-Bel, more than 3,000 members of this West Asian people living mainly in Turkey (where they suffer severe persecution), gathered to pay tribute to the three victims of the rue d’Enghien massacre in Paris, December 23, 2022. It was in the same place that the tribute to the three Kurdish activists took place shot down in Paris on January 9, 2013. In the Arnouville room, the six portraits of the disappeared surround the television which will broadcast the verdict on Sunday evening.
“Return to a more stable democracy”
Between May 20 and May 24, Turkish nationals living in France were able to vote for the second round of the presidential election. As for the previous round, the objective was clear for the Val-d’Oise section of the Kurdish Democratic Council in France (CDKF), a federation of 26 associations: “overthrow the dictatorial regime of Erdogan who has sown chaos in the country, who has imprisoned and killed the Kurds”, denounces Agit Polat, spokesperson for the CDKF. A message consistent with the Turkish left pro-Kurdish party HDP, which confirmed, on May 25, its support for Kemal Kiliçdaroglu.
“We know that this candidacy will not solve the Kurdish question, but we can at least imagine returning to a more stable democracy”, hopes Ali Damien Aydin, a 19-year-old Franco-Kurdish boy living in Villiers-le-Bel. Being politicized was obvious for this engineering student, close to Fidan Dogan, one of the activists murdered in Paris in 2013. “Inevitably, we are immersed in these questions, even when we are youngsums up the young man, also an activist at La France Insoumise. Most of our relatives fled the repression in Turkey and we all know people still there. »
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