Jody Williams is the 1997 Nobel Peace Prize winner and chair of the Nobel Women's Initiative. She is the first signatory of the open letter 69 Nobel Prize winners published on Friday.

The letter was addressed to the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR), Gabrielius Landsbergi, President of the Committee of Ministers of the Council of Europe, Dr Alan Mitchell, President of the European Committee for the Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment (CPT) and Marko Bošnjak, President of the European Court of Human Rights of the Council of Europe and President of Turkey, Recep Tayyip Erdoğan for urgent consideration, and called for immediate action for Öcalan.

Jody Williams spoke to journalist Erem Kansoy from MedyaHaber and said that "the Kurdish question is a huge unresolved issue that needs to be dealt with internationally pressure on organizations and on the president of Turkey to make something happen."

Williams added: "I recognize that Öcalan is considered by the overwhelming majority of Kurds to be their political, spiritual, emotional leader. And without his participation in any process, it would be very difficult to find a meaningful solution to the Kurdish question. So that's why I decided to offer to do a second letter campaign [the first was in 2019] addressing the international bodies that should be paying attention to the treatment to which Öcalan is subjected to, the torture of isolation, the illegality of isolation. We also decided to write to President Erdoğan, asking him to please restart the negotiations that had been going on."

Williams said that her "strong hope" is to be able to "visit Öcalan in prison with other Nobels. I want him to know that we stand with him. We recognize that the Kurdish people see him as their leader. And I think it would be a good thing for Turkey to let us go and meet with him."