COMMUNISTS, trade unionists and politicians across Iraqi Kurdistan joined forces on Saturday to demand the removal of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) from international terror lists.

“This campaign is a national and humanitarian duty,” politician and organiser Muhammed Amin Penjweni said, urging people to join the growing international calls to delist the PKK.

He said the Kurdish resistance group’s inclusion on an EU terror list was a political decision made to appease Turkey after it had “used all its military capabilities to destroy the PKK, but it could not reach its goal.”