The indefinite Freedom for Öcalan vigil action in front of the European Council building in the French city of Strasbourg has left 107 days behind since it started on 25 June to ask the European Council, European Parliament, European Union countries and western countries like the USA to "stop their political, military and economic support of Turkey” and to demand freedom for the Kurdish Leader Mr Abdullah Ocalan and the recognition of the Kurdish peoples’ status in all parts of Kurdistan.

The vigil action, which came after the Geneva-Strasbourg Long March in the winter and the 52-day-long hunger strike in Strasbourg last March, continues in the fifteenth week with four demonstrators from Rome, capital city of Italy, having taken over the one-week alternate vigil from another group.

The group from Rome, including two men and two women, called on Kurdish and Turkish mothers in Turkey to help to prevent the dirty war in the country so that the bloodshed and tears of mothers could be brought to an end.

The Vigil will continue until Mr Abdullah Öcalan is released and obtains his freedom, say the organizers, ‘Freedom for Öcalan Initiative activists and Geneva-Strasbourg marchers’, pointing out that "with this event, we wish to express that we feel with each passing day we will progress Mr Öcalan closer to freedom and due to this, as foremost being the Kurdish women, men, teens, kids, and revolutionaries, intellectuals, democrats and progressivists from Turkey as well as friends of Kurdish people, we will be watching at the Vigil Point in front of Council of Europe".