Three-day march in Greece: “Freedom for Öcalan, status for Kurdistan”

Three-day march to mark the anniversary of 15 February international conspiracy kicked off in Greece.

15 February marks the anniversary of the international conspiracy that led to the Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan’s abduction to Turkey in 1999. Since then, Öcalan has been held as a political hostage on the prison island of Imrali, most of the time under conditions of total isolation. Kurds and their friends are going into action all around the world to demand the lifting of Abdullah Öcalan's incommunicado detention and the resumption of peace negotiations and conditions for the Kurdish leader in which he can live and work freely in order to contribute to the solution of the Kurdish question. 

The Kurdish Revolutionary Youth Movement (Tevgera Ciwanên Şoreşger), the Democratic Cultural Center in Athens and the Kurdish Women’s Movement in Europe launched a three-day march in Greece on Monday to mark the 24th anniversary of the international conspiracy.

The march kicked off from the Lavrio Camp in Athens at 10 a.m. 50 young people from four parts of Kurdistan are taking part in the march under the motto “Freedom for Öcalan, status for Kurdistan”.

Activists are displaying posters of Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan and the flag of the Kurdistan Workers’ Party (PKK), chanting slogans in Greek, Kurdish and Turkish. The activists were accompanied by residents of Lavrio until leaving the city.

The activists will gather in Athens city centre on February 15 and march to the Turkish Embassy at 5 p.m.