The string of demonstrations and events launched for the freedom of Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan in many centers in Europe continue.

PARIS

The tent demonstration launched to protest the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan continues on the 7th day. The demonstration in République Square was led by faith institutions FEDA, CIK and Paris TEV-CAND assembly workers yesterday.

Activists handed out leaflets in French explaining the isolation imposed upon the Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan. There was much interest in the tent demonstration and the organisation committee issued a call for mass attendance to the demonstration that will be held in the last two days of the tent demonstration, Wednesday and Thursday, and all institutions in the vicinity of Paris will attend.

The tent demonstration is held between 10.00-17.00 hours every day in the République Square.

HAMBURG

The demonstrations launched for the freedom of Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan also continue in Hamburg, Germany. A rally was held in Altona district as part of events to be held every day in a different district by the Hamburg Democratic Kurdish Society Center.

The activists handed out leaflets prepared by NAV-DEM and a speech held during the demonstration called for freedom for Abdullah Öcalan and legal status for Kurdistan.

Naime Erdem Başaran spoke in the name of HDK-A Hamburg initiative and pointed out the situations of Şebnem Korur Fincancı, Ahmet Nesin and Erol Önderoğlu, who were arrested because they joined the campaign “Editor-in-Chiefs on Watch” campaign to defend press freedom in the face of oppression faced by the Özgür Gündem newspaper. Başaran stated that since June 7, 2015 the President of Turkey and the AKP had been using political power to dysfunctionalize the executive, legislative and judicial powers under their monotype rule, that an autocratic administration was openly implemented and that everybody who rejected this and showed solidarity received their share of the oppressive actions of this dictate regime.

SKB members also attended the rally where internationalist Sevda Çağdaş who was martyred in the operation to liberate Manbij on June 25, 2016 was commemorated.

At the end of the rally, a call was issued for strong participation in the demonstrations held in line with the campaign “Freedom for Öcalan, Legal Status for Kurdistan”. The string of demonstrations in Hamburg will continue with a rally in Winsen on Thursday. The demonstration will be held in front of the Rote Flora center in Sternschanze and will be co-organized with antifascist groups in memory of Halim Dener who was murdered by the German police in 1994. There will be a march on Saturday led by the Hamburg Ciwanen Azad.

ESSEN, DORTMUND AND BIELEFELD

In Essen, Dortmund and Bielefeld, the tent demonstration launched to expose the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan and the genocidal policies of AKP fascism in Kurdistan continues. Thousands of leaflets have been handed out and there is great interest in the demonstration that will continue until the weekend.

SALZGITTER

A tent demonstration was held between 14.00-18.00 hours led by DKTM Peine in Salzgitter city center.

The public was informed of the isolation imposed upon Öcalan and the massacres committed by the AKP state in Kurdistan.

The demonstration was held in Stadtmonument Square and leaflets were handed out. Visitors were informed of the goal of the demonstration in the tent.

DEN HAAG

The tent demonstration in the Netherlands’ Den Haag city also continues. The demonstration will end with a rally on Wednesday afternoon.

The organisation committee issued a statement calling on all Kurds to join the demonstration between 15.00-18.00 tomorrow.