People in Rome traveled around the city on Wednesday with mobile billboards announcing the march.

A meeting was also held with civil society organizations in the capital to ensure maximum participation on Saturday.

The march will start in Repubblica Square at 2 pm.

The march is promoted by UIKI (Kurdistan Information Office in Italy), Kurdish community of Italy, Kurdish socio-Cultural Center Ararat, Rete Kurdistan Italy.

Organisers said in the call to the march: “It is now necessary more than ever, for peace in the Middle East, to make our voice heard against the neo-Ottoman fascism of Turkish president Erdogan. Ending the isolation of Abdullah Öcalan means giving a perspective of peace and democracy to all those territories scarred by decades of war, destruction and millions of refugees.”