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 Imrali torture system, continues with determination.

The action, which is carried out every week by groups of Kurds living in Europe and their friends, has entered its 669th week. A group of activists from Bordeaux took over the vigil on Wednesday.

In a statement to the press, group spokesperson Serdar Serhad stated that the freedom and ideas of Öcalan are needed more in the war process the Middle East is going through. “Unless Leader Öcalan is freed, the Kurdish people and the oppressed peoples in the Middle East will not be freed,” Serhad said, emphasizing that for this reason, all the the Kurds, especially young people, must break the isolation and achieve the freedom of their leader.

Serhad concluded: “Let us defend Leader Öcalan and his ideas. Let us defend Kurdistan. To this end, let us spread our struggle even more and resist even more. In 2025, let's say that enough is enough, and that there can be no life without the leader.”