The campaign "Freedom for Öcalan and a political solution to the Kurdish question", launched on 10 October, is supported internationally. The campaign demands immediate access for lawyers and family members to the Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, who has been imprisoned since 1999, and finally his release under conditions that allow him to play a role in finding a political solution to the Kurdish question.

Activists from the Oromo people are also involved in the campaign. A declaration of support was made in Nairobi, the capital of Kenya, from where Abdullah Öcalan was taken to Turkey in an international secret service operation in 1999. The activists Soreti Bulbula Kadir and Leisa Dhaba explained at the press conference in English and Afaan Oromoo.

The Oromo (Oromoo) are an ethnic group living in the Horn of Africa in Ethiopia as well as in northern Kenya. They are the largest ethnic group in Ethiopia and the Horn of Africa as a whole. According to a 2007 census, they make up 34.5 percent of the total population of Ethiopia. Other sources speak of 40 percent and assume 40 million Oromo in Ethiopia by 2022. In Ethiopia, they have their own state, Oromia. According to estimates, more than 200,000 Oromo live in Kenya. The Oromo Liberation Front was founded in 1973 and fights politically and militarily for independence and against the oppression of the Ethiopian central government.