On March 17, 2023, Tilman Zülch (1939-2023), founder of the Society for Threatened Peoples (STP) (in German: Gesellschaft für bedrohte Völker GfBV) passed in Göttingen, Germany.
Tilman Zülch was a figure who was, throughout his life, committed to working for peoples who suffered oppression, discrimination, war crimes, and genocide and transferred this commitment to institutional work through his founding and leadership of the Society for Threatened Peoples, which is a distinguished institution among institutions and organizations concerned with human rights, in that it committed to the questions of peoples across the world, not individuals, which earned it the trust and respect of threatened and vulnerable peoples, as well as giving it a distinguished position at the European and International levels, in UN, parliaments, institutions, conferences, and the media.
The headquarters of the society in the German city of Göttingen is a station visited by political, academic, and societal leaders and references of threatened peoples.
The late Tilman Zülch had remarkable positions of solidarity with the people of Kurdistan in the various persecutions and crimes they were subjected to in Halabja, chemical weapons, Anfal, ethnic cleansing crimes, the mass exodus in 1991, ISIS crimes, and others.
Tilman Zülch was a loyal friend of the people of Kurdistan with its various ethnic and religious diversity: Kurds, Assyrians, and Yazidis.
GfBV had supported a couple of CAPNI programs on different occasions and by different means.
May God have mercy on him and rest his soul in peace.
