For some time now, many actions of the Kurdish freedom movement have focused on the detention condition of Abdullah Öcalan. For more than 22 years, the PKK founder and important Kurdish mastermind has been imprisoned on the Turkish prison island of Imrali - most of that time under tightened isolation conditions. Öcalan's last contact with the outside world was a telephone conversation with his brother on April 27, 2020, and his lawyers were last able to see him on August 19, 2019.

To raise awareness of Öcalan's progressive and democratic ideas, which inspire millions of people around the world - including in building the project of democratic self-government in Rojava, a women-centered alternative to patriarchy in the Middle East - 22 mobile libraries in buses have been touring various cities in Europe, Canada and Australia for weeks under the slogan "The time has come: Freedom for Abdullah Öcalan". On Saturday, one of these mobile libraries stopped in the metropolis of Frankfurt.

Among the guests who welcomed the mobile library in the city center were people from surrounding cities such as Darmstadt, Hanau, Offenbach, Mainz, Gießen and Saarbrucken. There were stimulating conversations and discussions between Kurdish activists and interested people who gathered around the stand "Library of Free Sociology". Finally, there was collective participation in the letter writing campaign to the United Nations Secretary General initiated by trade unions in South Africa. The campaign is addressed to UN Secretary General António Guterres to urge him to commit to the freedom of Abdullah Öcalan.