East German Federation of Free Kurdistans (FED-KURD) co-chairs Seyran Batman and Menderes Canbeg called for participation in the central rally to be held in Cologne on 17 February to demand freedom for Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.

In a press conference, the two co-chairs condemned the fact that there has been no news from Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan for 33 months. The Kurdish people’s leader has been kept in total isolation for 25 years in Imrali.

The statement also pointed out that the international community remained silent in the face of isolation, which turned into systematic torture, and added that it was a worrying situation that the Committee for the Prevention of Torture (CPT) did not publish any report after its visit to Imrali.

The statement said: "Within the scope of the "Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan, solution to the Kurdish question" initiative launched internationally on 10 October 2023, we organized the central Cologne march on 17 February, together with all our assemblies, commissions, communes and friends affiliated with the East German Free Kurdistan Federation. We will go to Cologne in hundreds of thousands. We call on everyone to break the isolation and ensure Öcalan's physical freedom."