KURDS’ legitimate right to resist must be supported by progressives, campaigners said today, as a European court heard a case for delisting the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) as a terrorist organisation. 

A joint appeal hearing took place in the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) in Luxembourg amid hopes that the terrorist designation may finally be lifted after years of legal wrangling. 

The PKK was first included on the list of terror organisations by the EU in 2002 as it adopted a UN security council resolution agreed in the aftermath of the 9/11 attacks in the US.