The Freedom for Öcalan Vigil, which was launched in Strasbourg on June 25, 2012, with the aim of achieving the physical freedom of Kurdish People’s Leader Abdullah Öcalan and ending the İmralı torture system, continues with determination.
The vigil is held in Strasbourg, where institutions like the Council of Europe, the CPT (Committee for the Prevention of Torture), and the European Court of Human Rights and the European Parliament are located.
The vigil also aims to promote Abdullah Öcalan’s ideas, raise awareness of the Kurdish people’s struggle, and build public pressure on international institutions to take responsibility.
The action, which is carried out every week in front of the Council of Europe by groups of Kurds living in Europe and their friends, entered its 686th week.
In the new week, the vigil was taken over by Kurdish patriots Mustafa Kumral, Muhammed Temo, and Şahit Ali from Liege.
Group spokesperson Mustafa Kumral said they owe a debt of gratitude to Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan, who, he said, has dedicated his entire life to the freedom of the Kurdish people and all oppressed peoples.
“The President has been in prison for 27 years. We want the isolation imposed on him to be lifted and for him to finally be free,” Kumral said.
Kumral expressed their support for the “Peace and Democratic Society” process initiated by Öcalan, adding: “We will continue this struggle. We will try to explain our President’s ideology and paradigm to friend and foe everywhere we are. We will try to spread it to all the peoples of the world.”
Source: ANF News
