The Democratic Kurdish Council of France (CDK-F) and the Kurdish Women's Movement in France (TJK-F) launched on 22 January a 25-day-long march for the freedom of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan from Paris to Strasbourg, where the European Union institutions are located. The march is taking place under the slogan "Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan, Justice for Kurds" as part of the international campaign "Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan, a Political Solution to the Kurdish Question", which was launched worldwide on 10 October 2023. The march continued on its 11th day through the city of Evry.

During the march, thousands of leaflets were distributed to raise awareness of the people in the neighborhood, while French shopkeepers and institutions in the region were presented with files prepared about the unlawful and absolute isolation of Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan.

After a minute of silence in memory of the Kurdistan Revolution Martyrs, Faruk Demir, one of the activists, made a speech and said:

"Dear friends, exactly 25 years ago, Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan was captured by an international conspiracy and handed over to the Turkish state. For exactly 25 years, we have been on the streets and defending our leader. We see that day (February 15, 1999) as a black day in our history. We condemn that day, the invaders and the international conspirators and we stand up for our leader. We are spreading his struggle, ideas and philosophy throughout the world, in Kurdistan and in the Middle East.”

The activists sang enthusiastically throughout the march, chanting slogans for Abdullah Öcalan's freedom, while the local people were informed about the conditions of the Kurdish People's Leader's isolation in French through loudspeakers.

Postcards collected during the march were mailed to the island of Imrali, where Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan is being held under intense isolation.

There will be a dengbêj concert at the Kurdish Democratic Community Center in Grigny at 17.00 local time today. Dengbêj singing is the most important part of traditional Kurdish musical culture. This name is given to singers who render poems, epics and historical events of oral Kurdish literature in the form of songs. The word is derived from deng (voice) and bêj (to say, to speak). For the Kurdish people, oral literature is regarded as the autobiography of society, which is why dengbêj are also considered historians.

Tomorrow's stage of the march (day 12) will take place in the suburb of Villeneuve Saint Georges, south of Paris. There will also be a movie screening.