Kurdish activists on day 2 of march for Öcalan in Athens
Demonstrations all around the world demand immediate contact with Abdullah Öcalan, who is held in incommunicado detention in Turkey and has not been heard from for 31 months.
Kurdish people and their friends are taking to the streets today to mark the 25th anniversary of the forced departure of PKK founder Abdullah Öcalan from Syria, which marks the beginning of the "international conspiracy" that led to the deportation of the Kurdish leader from Kenya to Turkey on 15 February 1999.
Activists from the Kurdish youth movements started a two-day march in Athens yesterday under the motto "Cenga Azadiyê Serbixin" [Win the Freedom War], a campaign launched by the Kurdish youth movements Komalên Ciwan and Komalên Jinên Ciwan in July.
On the second day of the march organised by the Revolutionary Youth Movement (Tevgera Ciwanên Şoreşger,TCŞ) and the Movement of Combative Young Women (Jinên Ciwan ên Têkoşer, TekoJIN), the activists are marching from Pallini to the Turkish Consulate in Athens, chanting the slogans “Bijî Serok Apo" (Long Live Chairman Öcalan) and “Bê Serok Jiyan Nabe’’ (No Life Without the Leader).
The activists expressed their determination to bring down the system of torture and isolation on Imrali. They denounced the recent wave of genocidal attacks by the Turkish state against North-East Syria and other parts of Kurdistan that claim more lives every day.
