Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan, who has been held in severe isolation conditions in Imrali Island Prison for 25 years, has not been heard from for 41 months. Abdullah Öcalan, whose rights to see a lawyer and family have been usurped as a whole, has been subjected to a state of absolute lack of communication. Although the Turkish state insists on the Imrali isolation and torture system, disregarding both its domestic law and the international agreements it is a signatory to, the ideas of Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan continue to spread among people involved in different social struggles.

Italy’s well-established Radio Onda d’Urto in Brescia, has been holding a festival since 1982. The festival lasts for 18 days and sees the participation of leading artists from Italy and elsewhere. The festival, which attracts tens of thousands of people and delivers political messages, has had a one-day program devoted to Kurdish People's Leader Abdullah Öcalan and Kurdistan for the last two years.

Michele Borra, one of the editors, told ANF that "for many years the radio in its daily broadcast as well as in the festival has talked about the Kurdish question, first following developments in North Kurdistan, in the nineties, then covering and explaining the Rojava Revolution."

Borra added that two years ago, the Kurdistan Information Office (UIKI) in Rome proposed to dedicate a special day at the festival to Abdullah Öcalan. "We immediately accepted, because, as I said, we have been following developments in Kurdistan for many years. I think the Öcalan’s paradigm is very important for all people in a struggle and I think that more events to know his writings and philosophy as well as his situation of total isolation should be organized, certainly throughout Italy, where not everyone knows about his situation."