According to TEM, PKK/KCK has 151 logos and emblems

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AMED - According to a report of the TEM submitted to the court, the flags, pennants and emblems of many organisations, including women's, youth, stundent and journalist organisations, belong to the PKK/KCK.

 
On 14 February 2024, Diyarbakır 4th Assize Court sent a writ to the Provincial Security Directorate requesting the notification of "flags, pennants, emblems and symbols of PKK/KCK". The police sent the report prepared by the Department of Counterterrorism (TEM) to the court in 2023. The report claimed that the logos used by student, women, youth and non-governmental organisations were "flags and pennants of the PKK/KCK". Flags and pennants of many institutions and organisations operating in Kurdistan, Turkey and European countries were criminalised. The report includes 151 flags, pennants, emblems and symbols.
 
WOMEN'S ORGANISATIONS
 
The police report mostly included the logos and emblems of women's organisations. Founded in 2005, the logo of Koma Jinên Bilind (KJB), a Kurdish women's organisation, was included in the report. The Democratic Free Women's Movement (DÖKH) was another women's organisation on the list. DÖKH dissolved itself in 2015.
 
Kongreya Jinên Azad (Free Women Congress-KJA), which was founded on 2 February 2015 and closed down in 2016 with the Decree Law (KHK), Tevgera Jinên Azad (Free Women's Movement-TJA), Tevgerên Jinên Kurd ên Ewropayê, Yekitiya Jinên Kurd ên Elmanyaye, Tevgere Jinan a Navnetewî, The emblems and logos of women's organisations such as Tevgere Azadiya Jinên Êzidî, International Kurdish Women's Representation, Free Democratic Young Women, Komalên Jinên Ciwan, Yekitiya Jinên Ciwan, Democratic Women's Alevi Union (DAKB) were also alleged to be "emblems and symbols of PKK/KCK".
 
STUDENT AND YOUTH ORGANISATIONS
 
The emblems and logos of many student and youth organisations were included in the report. Yekitiya Xwendekarên Kurdistan, Kurdistan Youth Movement, Revolutionary Student Movement (DÖH), Democratic Patriotic Student Assembly, Democratic Youth Associations Federation (DEM Genç), Democratic Student Associations Federation (DÖDEF) and Democratic Student Assembly, founded on 17 November 2022, were among the student and youth organisations included in TEM's list.
 
The logos of press organisations such as Yekîtiya Ragihandina Azad (YRA), Azad News, Rojava FM and the Association of Free Journalists, which was shut down by a decree decree in 2016, were included in the police list.
 
Some of the organisations criminalised by the police reads: MEBYA-DER, TUHAD-FED, the Rojava Assistance and Solidarity Association, which was closed down by a state of emergency decree, Kurdish Language Research Association (KURDÎ-DER), TZP-Kurdî, Federasyon Demokratik a Elewiyan (Democratic Alevi Federation), Federasyon Komelên Êzidiyan (Ezidi Associations Federation), Confederation of Oppressed Migrants (AvEG-Kon), Democratic Kurdish Society Centre.
 
HDK AND DTK ALSO ON THE LIST
 
Founded on 15 October 2011 and continuing its activities, the Peoples' Democratic Congress (HDK) and the Democratic Society Congress (DTK), which was founded on 30 October 2007 with the aim of peaceful solution of the Kurdish question and democratisation of Turkey, were also included in the list.
 
Another party included in the list was the Democratic Union Party (PYD) in North and East Syria. It was noteworthy that the emblems and logos of the assemblies of the Autonomous Administration of North and East Syria were also included in the list.
  
MA / Rukiye Payiz Adıgüzel 

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