Demonstrations have been held in Duisburg and Dusseldorf cities of Germany and Liêge city of Belgium today to demand freedom for Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.

DUISBURG

In Duisburg city of German, Kurds gathered in front of the Duisburg Municipality on the call of European Kurdish Democratic Societies Congress (KCDK-E) against the isolation imposed upon Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan today.

A statement made during the demo recalled that the AKP fascism and Erdoğan dictatorship continued their isolation against Öcalan and the policy of his exclusion from the ongoing process systematically.

The statement also pointed out that the Kurdish leader has been arbitrarily deprived of fundamental human and political demands such as denial of lawyer visits to İmralı, family visitation, communication with phone and letter for a long while now.

"Öcalan's denial of meeting with his movement, people and family means a violation of global human rights, a heavy punishment imposed on the leader of a folk, and a strict practice of the policy to isolate him from his nation and folk. In response to this policy targeting Leader Abdullah Öcalan, we would like to state that we as the Kurdish people living in Europe and their political institutions will be in an absolute and uninterrupted struggle", read the statement.

Demonstrators later marched to the train station where a rally was held -despite the provocations of Turkish racist groups.

DUSSELDORF

In the German city of Düsseldorf, hundreds joined a march and rally organized by Democratic Kurdish Society Center with the motto 'Freedom for Öcalan, status for Kurdistan'.

After gathering at the train station, demonstrators marched to the city centrum where a rally took place.

Speaking here, NAV-DEM (Democratic Kurdish Society Center in Germany) provincial co-chair Yıldız Filmci and Mamosre Hejar stated that struggle for Öcalan's freedom will be enhanced.

LIÊGE

Kurds also staged a demonstration in Liège, Belgium to voice their demand for the freedom of Öcalan on the call of the European Kurdish Democratic Societies Congress.

After gathering at Rue Porte Square, the mass staged a march to the Place Est Lambert Square where a rally was held.

"Freedom for Öcalan" and "Dictator Erdoğan" were among the slogans chanted by demonstrators who distributed leaflets in French to inform the public about the situation of the Kurdish People's leader whose fundamental rights are being violated by the Turkish state.