The Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan Vigil was launched on 25 June 2012 in Strasbourg, to demand freedom for Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan and an end to the isolation imposed on him in Imrali.

The vigil continues in its 582nd week and has been taken over by a Kurdish family from Zurich, Switzerland.

The family saluted the 39th anniversary of the breakthrough of 15 August, when the Kurdish freedom movement fired the first bullet at the Turkish army in Eruh, Siirt in 1984. A 36-strong guerrilla force led by the legendary commander Mahsum Korkmaz - also known by his nom de Guerre Egîd ("the Brave") - carried out the first attack against the Turkish occupying forces that day, which is considered the beginning of the armed struggle of the Kurdish liberation movement. 

The family called on the Kurdish people and their friends to stand up for Öcalan, who has not been heard from for 29 months.