The Great Freedom March, which started from two branches, Kars and Van, on 1 February to demand the physical freedom of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan and a democratic solution to the Kurdish question, continues on its 14th day.

Politicians and representatives of democratic mass organisations taking part in the march converged in Amed (Diyarbakır) yesterday and reached the Siverek district of Urfa today. After the march in the district centre with slogans, a statement was made in front of the DEM party district building. The statement was made in front of a banner reading "We were the patriots of the country that no one could even name."

Speaking here, DEM Party MP Öznur Bartın said, "We were welcomed with great enthusiasm everywhere you went. We are grateful to our people. The demands of the prisoners and our mothers should be fulfilled and isolation should be ended. We condemn the international conspiracy. Our demand is the physical freedom of Mr Abdullah Öcalan, who is the only interlocutor for the democratic solution of the Kurdish question. Negotiations for the democratic solution of the Kurdish question must be started urgently. Victory is ours.”

After the statement, people marched to the district centre again. After the march through the district, the people set off towards Urfa.

After the march, Salih Kandal, one of the leading cadres of the PKK, and his companions were commemorated at their graves. After a minute of silence, DEM Party MP Cengiz Çiçek said, "We visit cemeteries wherever we go and see the values of the Kurdish freedom struggle once again. The graves are full of testimony of the price paid by the Kurdish people. The lands of Kurdistan, the lands of Urfa are full of the history of Nimrod on the one hand and the history of Abraham on the other. This land is also full of the history of internal betrayal on the one hand and the history of honourable people who do not bow down on the other. These lands are the lands of those who, against the fascist mentality that sought to bury us in concrete for centuries, said 'even if we are on a cliff, we will be a cliff flower and we grow wings on those cliffs, we will always express our freedom'. This struggle has risen on the shoulders of the Kurdish people for 50 years. We are on the road for the physical freedom of Mr Abdullah Öcalan. Our struggle is twofold; one aspect is against the system, the other against internal betrayal. Those who lie here in this cemetery also struggled against internal betrayal. We will wage a struggle for democratic modernity against treason and colonialism. We say 'Truth is love, love is free life'. Those who first started this struggle have a beautiful saying; 'a promise is honour, we will not violate honour'."