An event was organized in Edinburgh, within the scope of the "Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan, Peaceful Solution to the Kurdish Question" international campaign.

The Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan Campaign Committee came together with Kurdish friends at the Scottish Kurdish Community Center building. The event was attended by members of the Scottish Kurdistan Solidarity Network, Edinburgh University Anarchist Collective and city council members, as well as many Kurds.

The event began with a minute’ silence in memory of the martyrs of the revolution. Journalist, writer and Jineoloji Committee member Nagihan Akarsel was commemorated.

A seminar was held afterward the commemoration. Şoreş Kurdi, a member of the Action Committee and Foreign Affairs Spokesperson of the Kurdish People's Assembly of Scotland, condemned the absolute isolation imposed on Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan and said: "We will break this isolation and liberate our Leader."

Kurdi said that Abdullah Öcalan's freedom is not just the freedom of one person but of all the Kurdish people, and added: "Our Leader's freedom is the freedom of the Kurdish people. There has been an absolute lack of communication with him for 44 months and ‘absolute isolation’ is being implemented. This is torture. This is a situation that requires a new definition beyond torture. And no law is recognized here."

Kurdi stated that international institutions have accepted the absolute isolation imposed on Abdullah Öcalan by the Turkish state, and have not exerted sufficient pressure against it. "The Turkish state does not even apply its own domestic law."

Kurdi also condemned the 9 October [1998] international conspiracy against Abdullah Öcalan and noted that "the time has come for the freedom of our Leader and the restoration of the rights of the Kurdish people. This cannot be postponed any longer."