An international campaign for a political solution to the Kurdish question and the release of Abdullah Öcalan from the Turkish island prison of Imrali was launched on 10 October.

There has been no sign of life from Abdullah Öcalan and his three fellow prisoners Hamili Yıldırım, Ömer Hayri Konar and Veysi Aktaş on the island since March 2021.

Their legal team and relatives have no access to them. The campaign "Freedom for Öcalan and a political solution to the Kurdish question" was presented at a press conference in Strasbourg on 10, at the same time organizations and individuals declared their support in over a hundred locations around the world.

The campaign calls for Abdullah Öcalan to be released and given the opportunity to take part in discussions for a solution to the Kurdish question.

Activists in Paris staged a performance in front of the Parliament building. Abdullah Öcalan's 24 years of imprisonment were symbolically represented by 24 iron cages.

Activists were in the cages, each one of those had information in chronological order about the rights violations on Imrali between 1999 and 2023. The activists in the cages read the book 'Sociology of Freedom' by Abdullah Öcalan.

The action was organized by the Democratic Kurdish Council of France (CDK-F) and the Kurdish Women's Movement in France (TJK-F). Şahin Polat, co-chair of the CDK-F, said that Öcalan was a key figure for peace in the Middle East and that his release meant hope for all oppressed peoples. "We call on the responsible states and institutions to act. As a first step, the complete isolation of Abdullah Öcalan must be lifted."