Laura Maria Corradi, Associate Professor at the Department of Political and Social Sciences at the University of Calabria in Italy,  expressed her support for the international campaign “Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan, Political Solution to the Kurdish Question”. The campaign, which was launched simultaneously in over a hundred places all around the world on 10 October, unites social movements, political parties, municipalities, trade unions, activists, intellectuals and millions of Kurds and people in solidarity with the Kurdish liberation struggle worldwide around a common goal: the participation of Abdullah Öcalan in a dialogue for a just and democratic political solution to the Kurdistan question in Turkey, which has remained unresolved for more than a century.

Speaking to ANF, the Italian academic defined the incarceration of Abdullah Öcalan as “cruel” and "proof of fear of the Turkish regime". She expressed her concerns, saying: “Unfortunately, we don’t have the proof that he is still alive after 30 months of total isolation.”