The Union of Young Women in Raqqa organized a protest march to denounce the isolation imposed on Kurdish people’s leader Abdullah Öcalan and to demand his physical freedom.

Hundreds of people attended the march, including members of the Zenubiya Women’s Community, women’s organisations and political parties.

During the course of the march through the city center, demonstrators chanted slogans condemning the international conspiracy against Abdullah Öcalan that resulted in his handover to Turkey in 1999 since when he has been held in solitary confinement on the prison island of Imrali.

Reading a statement in the name of the Union of Young Women after a minute of silence, Letîfa Hesen stated that the international conspiracy by the Turkish state and its partners was directed against the free ideas of Öcalan.

The Turkish state, which has been targeting the democratic nation project for years, could not achieve any results in spite of its attacks against the guerrilla-held Medya Defense Zones in southern Kurdistan (northern Iraq) for years.

Hesen vowed that young women will continue to embrace the ideas and philosophy of Abdullah Öcalan.

The statement in the name of the Zenubiya Women’s Community in Raqqa was read by Kafiya Kurdî who denounced the isolation of the Kurdish leader and pointed out that the Turkish state fears Abdullah Öcalan’s ideas that present a solution to the problems in the Middle East.