The global campaign “Freedom for Öcalan, A Political Solution to the Kurdish Question” is widely embraced in four continents where masses voiced their demand for an end to the war against the Kurdish people.
A new international campaign demanding “Freedom for Öcalan, A Political Solution to the Kurdish Question” has been launched today with 74 press conferences held around the world. 74 stands for the age of the Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan who has been held as a hostage on the prison island of Imrali since his handover to Turkey as a result of an international conspiracy that began on 9 October 1998, when he was forced to leave Syria and ended on 15 February 1999, when he was deported from Kenya to Turkey.
The main press conferences were held in front of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg, Paris, Vienna, Brussels and Berlin. The campaign unites social movements, political parties, municipalities, unions, activists, intellectuals, and millions of Kurds and their friends worldwide around a shared goal: making a just and democratic political solution to Turkey's century-old Kurdish question possible by enabling Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan’s participation in a renewed dialogue. The most pressing immediate demand, however, is to bring an end to the total isolation that Öcalan has been subject to for almost three years.
The global campaign, which involves academics, journalists, NGOs, political parties, parliamentarians, activists, philosophers, Nobel laureates, women's organisations and representatives of indigenous peoples, was widely embraced in four continents where masses voiced their demand for an end to the war against the Kurdish people.
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