Within the scope of Democratic Free Women's Movement's (DÖKH) campaign "Freedom for Öcalan", Kurds have taken to the streets in many cities in Turkey against the isolation of Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) leader Abdullah Öcalan. While the campaign is the sixth one to have been launched since 2001 to support Öcalan, 3,243,000 signatures were collected within the scope of the recent "Öcalan is my Political Will" Campaign.

The planned protest in Bingöl was however cancelled due to heavy snowfall.

The government isolated Öcalan because he did not resign he PKK," said Democratic Society Congress (DTK) Co-Chair Aysel Tuðluk, while BDP Co-Chair Selahattin Demirtaþ commented Öcalan’s isolation as follows; “

: "The government is attacking the Kurdish people in all grounds by increasing military and political operations more than ever, while on the other hand deepening the isolation of Öcalan by preventing visits of his lawyers and family."

Speaking in a highly-attended public meeting in BDP Bingöl Branch building, Bingöl MP Ýdris Baluken said that; "It is impossible to talk about law or justice in a place where the recognized leader of a people is held under isolation."

In line with the campaigns launched in Turkey, Kurds in Europe will on 31 January start a "long march" which will take Kurds in Europe from Geneve to Strasbourg to ask for their rights and freedom for Kurdish leader Abdullah Öcalan.  The march is organized by KON-KURD (the Confederation of Kurdish Associations in Europe).

While Öcalan has not been allowed to meet his lawyers since 27 July 201, the government is working on a new law draft which will give legal ground to ÖCalan’s isolation.