After trying maritime routes, a group of activists from Türkiye now aims to travel by land to demonstrate their solidarity with Palestinians oppressed by Israel.
The “Palestine Convoy” will start its journey from France on July 26 and proceed to the first stopover, Bosnia-Herzegovina, before reaching Türkiye. The activists aim to enter Palestine via Jordan.
The Palestine Convoy Turkish Delegation held a news conference in Istanbul on Sunday to reveal details of the journey, in the spirit of the Global Sumud Flotilla, which sought both to bring aid to Gazans and demonstrate international solidarity with them in the face of Israel’s genocidal actions in the Palestinian enclave.
The delegation’s coordinator, Hüseyin Durmaz, said they would never stop in their efforts to reach Palestine and Gaza. Durmaz, a Global Sumud Flotilla activist, said the humanity has witnessed “a livestream massacre” in Gaza and this led to outrage among “people of conscience.”
“This outrage translated into unprecedented global action. Demonstrations grew into a global wave of resistance shaped by the elderly who prayed for the oppressed, scholars who worked night and day to tell the people about the oppression, civic society organizations rallying people and those doing their best to show solidarity,” he said.
