Kurds held demonstrations in the French cities of Nantes and Rennes in protest at the international plot against Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.

NANTES

In the city of Nantes in western France, Kurds staged a demonstration organised by Engin Sincer Democratic Society Center and Zin Women's Assembly to protest the 15 February 1998 international plot against Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.

French people in solidarity with the Kurdish people also joined the demonstration at Place du Commerce in Nantes city center where posters of Öcalan were hanged. Protestors handed out leaflets in French that provided information about the plot against the Kurdish leader who remains jailed and isolated by the Turkish state in İmralı Island Prison since.

RENNES

Kurds staged a march demanding 'Freedom for Öcalan' in the Rennes city of France. Demonstrators saluted the Europe-wide marches organised with the joint motto 'Freedom for Öcalan, Status for Kurdistan'.

Following the march, protestors held a demonstration in front of the Municipality of Rennes where they called for strong participation in the mass rally to be held in Strasbourg on February 11 when the plot against Öcalan will be condemned.