Thousands from the Kurdish, Arab, Turkmen and Syriac communities as well as fighters of the YPG (People's Defense Units), YPJ (Women's Defense Units), HPC (Civil Defense Forces), members of the Asayish force and civil and public service organisations from Aleppo's Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood joined a rally and condemned the international plot against Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan that started on 9 October 1998 when he was forced to leave Syria.

Demonstrators waved pictures of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan as well as flags of the YPG and YPJ and reiterated their promise to continue the struggle until achieving Öcalan's freedom.

The rally started in front of the meeting place west of Aleppo's Sheikh Maqsoud neighbourhood and ended at the Martyrs' Square east of Sheikh Maqsoud. A minute of silence was followed by speeches of TEV-DEM (Movement for a Democratic Society) Administration Board Member Nêrgiz Bekir, Kongreya Star Executive Council Member Sîham Bîlal, MSD-Aleppo Co-chair Fehîme Hemo and YCR (Rojava Youth’s Union) executive member Ednan Hesen.

Speakers called attention to the importance of the Kurdish people's uprising against the policies of the fascist Turkish state aimed at Leader Apo and remarked that the Turkish state is striving to annihilate the Kurdish people and silence all freedom-loving peoples by subjecting Öcalan to isolation.

The speeches continued with a common promise to carry on the struggle for the freedom of Öcalan and an appeal to the international community to put pressure on the Turkish state to release the Kurdish leader.

The march ended with slogans demanding Öcalan's freedom.