The Öcalan Library bus that left Strasbourg on October 9 was greeted by Kurdish people in Stuttgart’s Schlossplatz Square.

In the stand housing Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan’s books, posters for peace ambassadors throughout the world were put up with images of Gandhi, Mandela and Öcalan.

Necati Abay gave a short speech in the name of the HDK-A Stuttgart Assembly in the event and condemned the international conspiracy. Abay said: “Mr. Abdullah Öcalan is not just the leader of the Kurdish people, he is also a comrade to the peoples of Turkey and the Middle East. We want Öcalan and all prisoners of freedom to achieve their physical freedom at once.

Die Linke Federal Assembly MP Gökay Akbulut also spoke in the event and stated that they demand an end to Germany’s dirty cooperation with Turkey/Erdoğan. Akbulut added: “We as a party will be in solidarity with Abdullah Öcalan and other political prisoners and we as a party demand an immediate end to Germany’s arms sales to Turkey.”

The Öcalan Library bus left Stuttgart at 15.00 and headed towards Salzburg, Austria.

Afterwards at 15.30, the committee in Stuttgart, along with Nav-Dem Baden-Württemberg and solidarity groups, gave a presentation to four political parties in the Stuttgart State Parliament, the FDP, the Greens, the CDU and the SPD, about Abdullah Öcalan’s freedom, the content of the campaign, Öcalan’s efforts for peace and his ideology and books on the subject. The party officials were also presented with a dossier on the isolation imposed upon Abdullah Öcalan and the human rights violations committed by Turkey.