On November 3, 2023, the trial of the Kurdish activist Kenan Ayas will begin before the eyes of the Cypriot public at the Higher Regional Court in Hamburg, Germany. In 1993, at the age of 18, Kenan Ayas was illegally imprisoned in Turkey for 11 years and subjected to...
After one and a half month from his meeting with his defence attorney in the Hamburg maximum security prison, we have received a letter written by Kenan on the day of his meeting with Mr. Efstathiou. The letter follows: Today I met with my defense lawyer Efstathiou....
The trial against Kenan Ayas is scheduled to begin on November 3rd at the Hamburg Higher Regional Court. The court rejected the motion to dismiss the charges and the motion to release Kenan Ayas from custody. The court sided with the prosecution and dismissed all...
On September 25, Kenan Ayas' defense team filed a motion with the Hamburg Higher Regional Court to Dismiss the charges and release Kenan Ayas from custody. The defence argued that the indictment filed by the Federal Prosecutor’s Office on August 3 does not provide...
The Kurdish political refugee Kenan Ayas, who has been in detention since March 15, due to a German arrest and extradition warrant for suspected membership in a terrorist organization, sent a message to the Cypriot people in the past few days. Ayas sends his...
Last Thursday, May 4, a protest was held in Nicosia against the extradition of Kenan Ayas to Germany. On the same day, the Kurdish fighter detained in Cyprus started an indefinite hunger strike. The protest march organised by an anarchist group in Nicosia was also...
THE EXTRADITION OF KENAN AYAS IS THE PARTICIPATION OF THE CYPRIOT STATE IN THE GENOCIDE OF THE KURDISH PEOPLE AND THE SILENCING OF THE ANTI-SYSTEMIC MOVEMENTS In the era of individualism, de-politicization and weak or non-existent organized popular movements, it is...
The Kurdish intellectual fighter, Kenan Ayas, from inside the Central Prison speaks to "S", as he prepares for the Court of Appeal that will take place in the next 25 days and will essentially decide his life. On the basis of a European warrant issued against him by...
He was first arrested in 1991, at the age of 17, on charges of participating in a demonstration. It was a time when the PKK was active in the mountains and in the cities, a time when the Kurdish movement was united and relentless. Ocalan had succeeded in uniting...
My friend and comrade Kenan, I apologize to you. I apologize to you for not being asked by the leaders of power in my country. My shared homeland that you loved and believed in so much. My little homeland that groans under the boot of the Turkish conqueror, just like...
In 1999, by decision of the Greek government of Kostas Simitis and in particular of the then Foreign Minister Theodoros Pangallos, the leader of the PKK, Abdullah Ocalan, was handed to Turkey on a plate. "He was hanging over all the towers, asking to land, no one...
The Kurdish fighter Kenan Ayas, who remains in custody at the Central Prison, is going on an indefinite hunger strike from this morning, pending the decision of the Supreme Court on the appeal regarding his extradition to Germany. The 49-year-old Kurd is being...